How To Layer Drums In Ableton (Drum Rack)

[@taylorandrew8567]

Just a little heads up if CTRL/CMD does not work for you. Hold ALT before dropping the sample instead of CTRL/CMD. This worked for me.

[@LowHeatBeats]

Yeah, it’s ALT on Windows.

[@2ndperspective418]

Damn i just came across this issue and thankfully checked the comments , thanks!!

[@djkingpersia]

Yes I was getting pissed off myself😅

[@snubdawg1386]

thx

[@Hellsink-z3e]

Hell yeah bro! Drum rack is full of surprises. I appreciate how chill you are and not over the top. Thanks Low Heat!

[@LowHeatBeats]

Appreciate it Scott 🙏

[@madimakes]

Yes

[@Username_Invalid]

Your editing timing is spot on. Keeps you watching and learning more without being bored or waiting. The whole layer sound inside drum rack opens lots of possibilities for me, thanks 🙏

[@LowHeatBeats]

Glad to hear it and thanks for the great feedback 🙏

[@HostilePro]

WOW what an amazing technique! I usually layer audio samples in arrangement view, which put me off using Drum Racks to layer sounds because i didn't understand how. Thank you this has been the most helpful video, subscribing now 👍

[@LowHeatBeats]

Awesome, glad it was helpfu! Thank you for the sub!

[@aleksey1784]

I once layered wind chimes with flexatone. This turned wonderful and nice for a fill between track parts

[@LowHeatBeats]

For sure man ✌️

[@madimakes]

Yeah between this and staying consistent with my drum pad assignments this has upped my game and is helping me form my own sound. Do this for any of your instruments 🔥

[@LowHeatBeats]

Good tip

[@freshnuggets]

I’ve been using StudioOne and Ableton 11 side by side, mainly ableton for sound design and ideas. The process and flow of layering drums in Ableton is beyond. Thanks for this as I got stuck at one point today.

[@LowHeatBeats]

Glad the video was helpful man!

[@888Winkler]

I'm wasting way to much time time with trying to get drums together when I want to make songs so decided to just make a few drum racks that I'll use every time. Thanks for the video.

[@LowHeatBeats]

Good idea for sure, having your drum sounds ready to go when starting a track is a huge timesaver.

[@floatinganarchychannel3204]

Love this method! Also great for uniq melodic perc such as kalimba or vibraphone

[@LowHeatBeats]

Definitely!

[@lokalbredstudios]

Here's my Sub. Great vid bro

[@LowHeatBeats]

Much appreciated!

[@josephzamalloa2594]

Damn! Thats what i was looking for! Thanks bro!!!

[@LowHeatBeats]

Glad to hear that 🙌

[@georgiboychev7547]

Interesting approach. It's really inovation. Very helpful. Thanks, Low Heat.

[@LowHeatBeats]

Thanks for watching ✌️

[@jayjackson6602]

Great tutorial!

[@LowHeatBeats]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@djofortunato5799]

Can already tell this would be great for any beat containing a "1 drop" element. Brilliant tip & looking forward to integrating into my Push1 workflow

[@LowHeatBeats]

Glad it was useful for you!

[@acmusicpage]

great tutorial, thanks!

[@LowHeatBeats]

My pleasure!

[@slatercolt]

Wow! Amazing video, thank you!!

[@LowHeatBeats]

My pleasure!

[@nealmcclelland]

Im just new to this, still learning alot. This is soooo helpful! Thanks m8.

[@LowHeatBeats]

Glad to help!

[@personalbranddeveloper]

Thats dope, man. U r really helping me.

[@LowHeatBeats]

Awesome! Glad it was helpful!

[@jonathanh5461]

Thiis is huge!! Thanks!

[@LowHeatBeats]

My pleasure!

[@alefillman]

why have I never tried this? man you rock, thank you!

[@LowHeatBeats]

Thanks so much man!

[@bangmateo7481]

Super helpful thank you.

[@LowHeatBeats]

Glad it was helpful!

[@SenpaiSuchil]

What a fire technique ngl sounds pretty good🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@LowHeatBeats]

Much appreciated 🙏

[@fabianadastra]

Hi! When I drag another sample onto the previous one it only changes the sample. It does not open the instrument Rack and I'm making sure I press Ctrl before dropping it in the same cell. Help please

[@LowHeatBeats]

If you are on Windows it's ALT as others have pointed out in the comments. Also make sure to hold it while dropping and not just press it before.

[@MultiKristj]

Hello is their a way to connect my Roland A-49 and play those samples I put in my Drum Rack individual with my keyboard🎹? Grtz

[@LowHeatBeats]

Of course, it works without any special setup. Have you tried it?

[@MultiKristj]

@@LowHeatBeats well I have Ableton & Native Instruments Symphony and when I connect the Roland with USB it automaticly connects with Kontact... but the Tuba is not the way I wanted it so I collected really much Samples and put each note in my drum rack and I can play with my keyboard of my laptop but I can only use a few notes or I have to go up or down with X & W... Can I play all these notes I sampled with my Roland A-49? :)

[@LowHeatBeats]

@@MultiKristj Yes, of course.

[@contresillodenettur9828]

Really Beneficial keep up the good work

[@LowHeatBeats]

Glad you found it useful ✌️

[@snubdawg1386]

is there an easy way to trigger one pad from multiple other pads? as an example you have a kick, snare and hihat on 3 different pads and you want to layer each of these 3 sounds with the another hihat sample on pad4

[@LowHeatBeats]

No, I think they've skipped this functionality. For example in Maschine if you layer samples on a pad, you don't have separate sampler settings for each sample. So that's why they've implemented pad link, to play multiple sounds from one pad and still be able to tweak them, add different effects to each sound, etc. In Ableton's Drum Rack, when you layer samples on a pad you still have different Simplers and effect chains for each sample, so there's no need to be able to link pads. Hope this makes sense 😅

[@snubdawg1386]

@@LowHeatBeats i understand but it makes no sense not being able to link pads...it's a workflow killer...at least in my case

[@snubdawg1386]

@@LowHeatBeats thx for the info

[@PatronMazaka]

Nice tip thank you bro 👑🔥💯

[@LowHeatBeats]

Any time bro

[@smokypaige4857]

DOPE. THANKS

[@LowHeatBeats]

Salute 👊

[@patrickhair5135]

My question is whenever I use a drum rack and I want to keep them contained. Is there a way I can seperate my drum tracks without seperating them outside of the drum rack.

[@LowHeatBeats]

Not sure I fully understand the question but you can right-click on a chain and choose “Extract chains” - this will move it to a sparate track.

[@patrickhair5135]

@@LowHeatBeats In this video I see how you keep all your sounds contained into one drum rack and things aren't broken up. Here is how I've been taught to create a rack, but I think it makes since to keep my rack contained but I been doing things as is. I separated all my instruments with a utility gain, Eq 8, and channel eq to give me more control of my instrument and to properly gain stage things to a -18db. this is on all my instruments. How I see you going things is just level each instrument and put delay or drum bus on each instrument as a send. At what point do you put a utility gain, Eq. 8, and channel eq on each instrument or don't shown in this video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gKjYeZluh9OMa80

[@LowHeatBeats]

​@@patrickhair5135 You don't need to separate them (unless you want them on separate channels in your project, for example for exporting individual tracks). The Drum Rack has its own mixer and every chain is its own channel so you can use different effects for each sound. You can just drag and drop an EQ, utility or any other effect on a pad and it will only affect that pad. Or you can setup sends and returns in the Drum Rack mixer.

[@patrickhair5135]

@@LowHeatBeats I wanted to thank you I finally realized how to use the rack the way I want it. I like keeping things contained and it sounds good. My only question if you have a 808 how can you play it in different notes if you have other instruments on the same rack.

[@ThinkTwice-mn8uq]

Usually you never use PAN when doing your percussion mixes? Vert good trip. Layer on one pad.

[@LowHeatBeats]

Actually I use pan regularly for hihats and percussion.

[@campar1043]

Can you layer drums using the push?

[@LowHeatBeats]

I’m not 100% sure. Maybe you can change what note the drums are assigned to in the Drum Rack and assign them to the same note? I have to look into it and see if it’s possible. In reality though, tasks like these are much faster and more efficient with the mouse and keyboard.

[@campar1043]

@@LowHeatBeats I’m coming from The mpc which is why I ask, really wish they’d implement it

[@mattkamau90]

Heyy you changed my life jajaja! thanks!

[@LowHeatBeats]

Wow that’s awesome to hear! Glad I could help 🙌

[@ameet_gill]

Heyo everyone! im slowly getting desperate and i dont know where else or HOW exactly to search for this so if someone could help me out i would highly appreciate it 🙏😅 After i inserted the "Drum Rack" into the timeline the left side of my pad glows red and i want to add something it starts the session and the loop, but i just want to freestyle the beats rather then pressing and the sound coming up a few seconds later. I am a complete newbie with this and its my first time using Ableton and a Novation pad. Much love and thanks for readying/helping 🙏

[@LowHeatBeats]

You just have to learn how Session view (and Live in general) works as a whole. I've been meaning to make a tutorial about it, but haven't done so yet. But to play the drum rack you need to switch to the note mode on your Launchpad, it seems you're using the clip mode where you trigger clips.

[@ameet_gill]

@@LowHeatBeats You, are, a, fukin, legend, Thank you!!! Subbed 🥰

[@tiny7438]

Why , even if i press ctrl (I tried all keys possible) it just change my sample or put on the next available drum rack slot, not add it, it is any setting in dr for that ?

[@LowHeatBeats]

On Windows it may actually be alt, I think I got that wrong in the video.

[@tiny7438]

I just figured out, I must press ctrl+alt on wimdows to achieve that, verry inspiring tutorial, like all your others videos, keep it up !!!

[@LowHeatBeats]

@@tiny7438 Thank you!

[@joeybtheman1906]

@@tiny7438 o thank god, i was going crazy

[@tiny7438]

@@joeybtheman1906 Actually is just ALT xD

[@fantasticmrwolfe]

would be good if they fixed the icon when you hold command (on mac). at the moment, when you hold command (on mac) the icon stays the same, and when you hold alt (on mac) the icon shows a "+" as if it's going to stack the samples but it just replaces it. thx for the video ✌✌

[@LowHeatBeats]

Glad the video was useful! Alt shows "+" because it duplicates the sample, I think it's the correct icon for this.

[@fantasticmrwolfe]

@@LowHeatBeats yeah + does mean duplicate rather than replace, my point was the “stack” icon is the same as the “replace” icon, which makes the user think holding down command does nothing different ie, replace. ✌🏼✌🏼

[@LowHeatBeats]

Yup, true.

[@trump-1-win]

Great

[@LowHeatBeats]

Thanks!

[@darloscanger3942]

I've been using Ableton for years and I never thought to try to layer drums in the same pad...

[@LowHeatBeats]

Thank you for watching the video ✌️

[@paulsarodh5460]

superb🦁🦁🦁🐯🐯🐯

[@LowHeatBeats]

Thank you!

[@NoticiasdelMundoalReves]

First comment baby Love the channel 👍🙏🙏

[@LowHeatBeats]

Thank you so much 🙌

[@joeybtheman1906]

alt + ctrl for windows

[@LowHeatBeats]

True, I got that wrong in the video, because I don't have a Windows PC around me to try it.

[@nothankyou818]

its the ALT key on windows

[@LowHeatBeats]

Is it? Others have said it was Ctrl+Alt but i don't have a Windows PC to test it.

[@nothankyou818]

@@LowHeatBeats yea its alt. Just the alt key while dragging over the sample you wanna stack. Took some experimentation to figure out since most of the tutorials are on mac

[@LowHeatBeats]

Thanks for the clarification 👍

[@daj6772]

Rip Battery 4

[@LowHeatBeats]

I def prefer the Drum Rack, only thing I use from Battery is the actual drum sample library which is cool.

[@Makavi8834]

this guy looks like white tyler the creator x alchemist

[@LowHeatBeats]

lmao

[@vrabomen]

Според мен уроците ако са на БГ ще е по добре. На англииски има толкова много туториали че........

[@LowHeatBeats]

Разбирам те, но така достигам до много по-голяма аудитория, въпреки голямата конкуренция. Правенето на тези видеа отнема доста време и усилия и ако бяха на български нямаше да има достатъчно гледания и съответно нямаше да си струва времето и усилията.