Ableton Live Drum Rack Hidden Features

In this video, we're going to take a look under the hood of Ableton Drum Rack, which is a powerful midi instrument for creating drums. Much of the available features in drum rack are hidden within the rack so we're going to crack open the interface and check it out!
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1:14 - Adding Samples to Drum Rack 2:00 - Drum Rack in Piano Roll 2:23 - Quantize Shortcut 3:00 - Adding non samples to Drum Rack 4:20 - Hit B Key for Draw Mode in Piano Roll 5:44 - Show Hide Chain List 7:08 - Creating “Multis” or layered sounds 8:40 - Show Hide Returns 9:30 - Using outside Return Effects 10:54 - Choke Groups 12:40 - Each Cell is an effect chain 14:02 - Output Routing for chains 14:40 - Return Chain Insert Effects 15:30 - Macros 17:50 - Saving Your Racks

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