Transform Your Drum Patterns: Adding Texture and Avoiding Repetition

[@AntiPattern123]

Nice Vid. I keep the kick and snare on separate tracks. Since Live 12 and the new generators, I tend to program percussion and Hi Hats in a drum rack. The pros are the mentioned pattern generator to get different grooves easily. Different velocities are far easier to adjust, and the groove pool is applicable. Your method is good to see the relations between the single elements, since the waveform is visible. It is also easier to freeze and flatten single elements without soloing and resampling.

[@EscherNadeau]

I’m glad you enjoyed the vid, i’ve heard really good things about Ableton 12, but I haven’t yet bitten the bullet but it seems like pattern generation is pretty powerful and it makes sense to use that with percussion as that is one of the things that you can add the most variety without it being too crazy especially with like ghost notes, and like triple high hats, maybe I gotta buy the upgrade from 11 suit to 12. Do you recommend 12 and did you ever have 11.

[@AntiPattern123]

@@EscherNadeau Oh...yeah. I forgot. With 12 there is also the benefit of the similar sound swap function. In a drum rack, you can switch the complete kit with one click. Kicks are replaced by similar kicks, snares with snares. I used XO from XLN since then. It is now obsolete.

[@EscherNadeau]

@@AntiPattern123 that’s so sick and I was also an XO person now I kinda just search and edit witch is definitely slower but I don’t need to render out each drum sound so it’s easier in some ways with drag and drop and it being native.