VST in an Ableton drum rack, the quick way and the good way.

VST drum machines, like the Roland cloud 808 and 909 sound great and very tweakable. However, it took me one hour to figure out how to nicely integrate them into an Ableton Live drum rack, i.e. having separate outputs per drum, choosing the positions and colours of the pads on Push, and having the right names for the drums in the "piano roll", on the tracks and on Push. I wanted to share this with you, so that you can do it in 5 minutes. Hope it helps!

[@itslal]

This is helpful. Thank you so much!

[@boutaye5737]

for all those who are having trouble with finding drum rack underneath the midi to tab within the external instrument, you need to use the VST2 version not the VST3 version, then it should work

[@RichardRichyRichington]

thanks man this is exactly what i needed. amazed i actually applied the brain power to watch a 5 min video but it was worth

[@jonasstein2101]

very concise and on point tutorial! Thanks

[@l.i.a.l42]

It was hard work but I was able to make a drum rack for addictive drums 2 thanks to this tutorial. You should really have more views, the info on this video is invaluable! Thanks again!

[@djneidel]

Incredible tutorial thank you - just what I was looking for.

[@hoarchata]

Great video

[@jatu5708]

can you share this macro?

[@andersschroder2483]

Super cool

[@markmasguro]

Thx! Very nice!

[@NOererererererer]

Nice one man ! I see you have the push, are you able to control the different knobs by type of drum from the push ? I wonder if you can do macros to kick knobs, snare knobs etc… and modify it live from the push

[@bsan354]

Thanks! Yes, I do have the push, and your can map the knobs of the vst to those of the push. Also, now that the push 3 is out, you can get push 2 second hand for very cheap!

[@cipherbeatss]

When I try to MIDI To Drum Rack on the External Instrument, the Drum Rack does not appear as an option in the dropdown menu.

[@aleymeow3418]

same here did you fix it?

[@MIGH-hw6bf]

same problem, drum rack does not appear, I also tried with the TR'909 on another channel, outside the drum rack and it doesn't detect it either, it doesn't appear in the MIDI TO menu:

[@reinerdketels7539]

same here

[@tim7517]

dumb question, but did you guys rename that channel from "1 Drum Rack" (default name) to something else? Whatever you name the drum rack will be the option to select in MIDI TO.

[@aleymeow3418]

@@tim7517 yeah nothing shows up in the dropdown