Ableton Tutorial: Make Your Own Drum Sounds with DRUMR

[@britox.6216]

This channel is amazing

[@ELPHNT]

Thanks ☺️ More stuff coming soon!

[@treywillis]

this is still one of my favorite tools. thank you so much for doing this

[@harrymoore8492]

Really love your website, just wondering if I can add my own samples to DRUMR? like sound recordings etc. Thanks

[@ELPHNT]

Yes, you can! 😊 Its a little complicated so I made a video about it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5OkYpKXe6-Hga8

[@Marrcello]

You are a magician!!👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽

[@splatsquatch3934]

cool idea

[@vicmermon]

You are the best, thank you

[@SeltenLive]

Awesome video and drummachine! I'm working with modular and therefore am wondering if it's possible to use your own made samples in the drummachine? Is it possible by replacing the original files with my samples or is there any other method? Keep up the good work!

[@ELPHNT]

It is definitely possible although its not a feature I'm advertising as it is a little advanced for some people but I'm sure if you're working with modular you'll be fine 😉 How much do you know about working with Ableton Racks? If you open up the DRUMR Rack you'll see that there's a Simpler inside - if you right click on the title bar and choose Simpler -> Sampler you'll be able to access all the existing samples within the Sampler device. You can delete those and add your own, or just add some of your own to the existing ones. Once you've added samples though, you'll need to make sure that your Chain Select Zones are set up. All of that make sense so far? 🤔

[@SeltenLive]

Yes, totally clear. I'll try to figure it out and otherwise i'll get back to you. Thank you very much for the clear explanation. Cheers!

[@ELPHNT]

Cool, thanks. Didn't want to sound patronising, I'm just never sure how much people might know about Racks, Chain Lists, etc.

[@ELPHNT]

P.S: I found that it definitely works better with longer, evolving textures, drones and noises. You can try using shorter, more percussive samples and see what you get though. If you get any interesting results please do share them! 😊

[@SeltenLive]

Deff will :) I'm trying to build a software drumcomputer next to the modular system which I can control using the parameters of the DS1. So similar to 'Earth' only with my own recorded samples. Thanks again, it's very helpful!

[@isaak_mp3]

Could you use drumr as an audio effect in an audio track?

[@ELPHNT]

No. What would you be trying to achieve?

[@isaak_mp3]

@@ELPHNT trying to use these parameters on my own samples that are already laid out

[@ELPHNT]

@@isaak_mp3 Oh cool, you can load your own samples into DRUMR, but it's a little complex. I actually made a whole video about it so you can check that out at kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5OkYpKXe6-Hga8

[@12potatos]

It wont let me load it on to my midi channel

[@ELPHNT]

What version of Live do you have? You'll need at least Live 9.7 for it to work and so it won't let you load the device if you have an older version.

[@12potatos]

ELPHNT Oh Im sorry! I missed that out. Wonderful preset nevertheless.

[@ELPHNT]

Sorry about that! I hope you can update in the future 😊

[@AudioPervert1]

I feel drum-synths are so much better, in terms of flexibility, sound manipulation and sheer synthesis.. sampled drums (slicing, gating, reversing, pitching etc etc) is just gimmicks laid upon a given sample (which was fine 20 years ago) yet Samplers just didnt evolve much ... However, Nice Beats On the Video!

[@ELPHNT]

I mean a sampler (a good one at least), is basically just a synthesiser but with a sample as the sound source instead of a traditional oscillator (sine, square, saw, etc.). Have you used Live's Sampler? I'd argue that its better than most synths because it has more controls than quite a lot of synths and you can load in any waveform you want, even recordings of actual analogue waveforms. Some pretty amazing possibilities, really.

[@AudioPervert1]

@@ELPHNT Hi and thanks for the reply ! What your saying about the Sampler (on Ableton) is correct, given it has many functions and features. Since I have been using samplers (hardware or software) for close to two decades - The difference being the quality of sound. Consider comparing the 'Sampler of Ableton' with an EMU or Akai or Roland Sampler. Given both software and hardware have many amazing sound manipulation capabilities, the technology has not really 'moved' nor 'advanced' in the last 15-20 odd years. Have you tried the M4L Granular Synth on Ableton?

[@ELPHNT]

@@AudioPervert1 There's not really much room for samplers (in the traditional sense) to advance though. Really all a sampler is, is giving you a way to record / load in a sample of audio and manipulate it in interesting ways, so with a digital sampler, where we've reached just about as accurate sounds quality as you're gonna get, there's not really much more for the sampler to do besides more bells and whistles. That being said, there are many different ways of working with samples. As you mention the Granulator is incredible and granular synthesis is really a kind of sampling (Quanta by Audio Damage is also really cool). Wavetable synthesis is also technically a form of sampling as well and there are lots of interesting things you can do with that, especially now that Wavetable has user wavetables is Live 10.1. Really though, samplers don't need to advance that much because what you can do with even a basic sampler is theoretically unlimited so I would argue that it's not the sampler that needs to advance, but the way we use them that needs to move forward 😉

[@AudioPervert1]

@@ELPHNT Hi .. Thanks for the reply. What your saying about "we've reached just about as accurate sounds quality as you're gonna get.." True enough, yet I like others, do wonder, what could be beyond. The sampler as a device to record, map and trigger (forward, backward, combinations) remains as is, with few little changes every once a while. Speaking of the Wavetable, hardware like the Waldorf Blofeld can get quiet far-out with sounds, and so can an NI Absynth - Yet these are synthesizers incorporating samples. As for the "samplers don't need to advance" Well, hope it does in ways not done before. Example - Time Stretch capabilities. If one looks/listens to PaulStretch (the software) as a completely new dimension in sample stretching or compressing. Tried it yet?

[@ELPHNT]

@@AudioPervert1 yeah, Paulstrech is good fun, but as I understand it, real-time time-stretching like that is pretty challenging. Have you tried Simpler? You can do Warping in that so you can get (fairly limited) time-stretching. Also, why do you need the sampler to handle that time-stretching; why not just stretch something in Paul Stretch and then load it into the sampler?