10 Drum Rack Tricks You Should Know (Music Production & Finger Drumming) | Side Brain

Drum Racks are one of the most powerful instruments in Ableton Live.
In this video we're going over 10 (Actually 12) Tricks you should know about when using Drum Racks.
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0:00 - Intro
0:12 - 1. Layering Samples
1:13 - 2. Choke Groups
3:03 - 3. Random Panning
3:32 - 4. Random Slicing
5:46 - 5. Random Velocity
6:36 - 6. Drum Rack Arps
8:40 - 7. Sample Cycling
10:52 - 8. Super Drum Racks (Selector Kits)
13:22 - 9. Return Chains
14:58 - 10. Pitch Playing
16:37 - (Bonus Tip) Drum Rack Mixer View
17:14 - (Bonus Tip) Extract Chains

[@DiveaksshSchae]

The hihat slicing & pitch playing tricks were unreal. KZbin has missed you Yeuda! Cheers for the fresh tips as always

[@SideBrain]

Thank you!

[@GitternetzFliege]

awesome, rarely i see a tutorial where almost every info is new to me ! good job

[@SideBrain]

Thank you! Glad you found it useful!

[@chromosundrift]

Thank you Side Brain!! Subscribed! Loved the arp midi effect on drum pads! I'm particularly interested in setting up Live for improvised performance so when I watch your other videos I'll be on the look out for tips that help me set up easy hands-on controls to change all this sort of stuff in real time.

[@highpeakrecordings]

Amazing. Thank you. The last bonus tip was brilliant as I've never found a quick way to get all the drums on separate tracks for export for mixing.

[@SideBrain]

Thank you! And glad to hear it helped.

[@anicca3179]

Great content and good explanation skills. One of the few channels with more elaborate techniques😅

[@itswhzly]

This was a 10/10 video

[@SideBrain]

Thank you! Appreciate it!

[@ArmoredMeat]

Really enjoyed this as a new Ableton user. I was wondering how to exact drum rack chains just this morning. But knowing how to expand the rack is session will help for sure. Thank you 🙏

[@SideBrain]

That’s great to hear! Glad it helped

[@louismaiden8360]

This is so damn useful, would LOVE more stuff on finger drumming

[@SideBrain]

Noted! and thank you glad it helps

[@angelicrealms4784]

Amazing stuff

[@nolanodyssey]

It's a really helpful tricks., Thank you !

[@gabrielvelea5785]

amazing tips! thanks very much for sharing these precious skills

[@SideBrain]

You are so welcome!

[@cornholio6754]

Thanks for sharing, NICE! 🔥

[@SideBrain]

🙏🙏

[@geogaddimaxima7421]

the drum rack arps is just mind blowing, thank you!!!

[@SideBrain]

Awesome! Glad you like

[@888Winkler]

This was really enlightening as I'm still new with Ableton. You sort of also maybe solved a problem I was trying to figure out today. I wanted to pan individual midi notes in the piano roll for instruments was doing a karimba tune and wanted individual notes to pan and be more spread out. I think I'll just use the drum rack and simpler to do this as it seems that the randomization feature there will likely do the trick. Thanks for the tips.

[@DmitryPuffin]

Awesome video! Well structured, easy to understand, good examples. Thank you!

[@SideBrain]

Glad you like!

[@eljaguarenelbeat]

Amazing tricks, best instructor I've ever seen ❤‍🔥

[@SideBrain]

Thank you so much!

[@Quoyota]

Damn! Your videos are so helpful. Thank you for sharing all of this

[@SideBrain]

Glad you like

[@TheSmkfts]

This was really useful. Thanks man!

[@SideBrain]

Thank you! Glad you like

[@live_for_dixit]

Thanks for choke groups i didn't know about this

[@SideBrain]

You’re welcome

[@PilsGetsAllTheGirls]

oh yeah some of these are real tricks!! thanks man for sharing them

[@SideBrain]

Glad you like them!

[@the_real_iceman]

OMG, those are some serious God level gems. Thank you so much man!!!!!

[@SideBrain]

Thank you! Glad you like!

[@brosnanperera4188]

This is amazing ! Thank you for sharing.

[@SideBrain]

You’re welcome! And thank you

[@NonameDerp]

Solid info!

[@SideBrain]

🙏🙏

[@boronoro]

Great stuff! I foresee channel growth for sure, with content like this! Thank you!

[@SideBrain]

Thank you! I sure hope so

[@AlexpxThreeTen]

Love your no nonsense get to the point style and VERY USEFUL tips! Thank you!

[@SideBrain]

Thank you! That's great to hear

[@floatinganarchychannel3204]

Amazibg tricks! Really likes the arp amp env trick and the slicing human hats

[@SideBrain]

Yeah the slicing randomization is my favorite

[@AlexandreSoma]

THANKS MAN!!!

[@SideBrain]

You’re welcome!

[@blakecasimir]

Well recorded, concise, fact packed. Instant subscribe.

[@SideBrain]

Glad you find it useful

[@georgedjmatrix4229]

Great Tricks i am going to have to try them out and get creative. Thank you for sharing it, now i can dive in a bit deeper into the details with a bit more understanding of what they do and the effect im looking for. great explanation and examples. Thanks

[@SideBrain]

That’s awesome!

[@smoovbeatzz]

Tip number 10 is life changing I can’t wait to try it out!

[@SideBrain]

Yes! Glad you find it useful!

[@K.KILLORAN]

Seriously great.

[@nickortiz3971]

your ableton knowledge never ceases to amaze me…super super helpful

[@SideBrain]

Thank you so much! It's really nice to hear

[@quentinmorales]

Nice !

[@SideBrain]

Thanks!

[@leroycarr9]

Great video. Lots of useful tips to try in my own music!!. [One thing that I learned for random variety for hits like Hats without MIDI devices: in the Controls section of Simpler, turn on the LFO, choose the noise waveform & the note setting (1/16 or smaller) and then choose a %-age for the Vol, and if you want, for Pitch and Filter as well.] Thank you.

[@SideBrain]

That’s an awesome trick! Love it!

[@FDBK4REAL]

Wow, I've watched a lot of drum rack videos on KZbin and have never heard of a bunch of these! Amazing video and super useful. Thank you kind sir!

[@SideBrain]

Nice that’s awesome to hear!

[@ErvinTracks]

Wow wow wow wow wow, if this videos doesn’t deserve a subscribe then i don’t know what! Thanks for this video

[@SideBrain]

Nice thank you!!

[@MaxPatissier]

thank you !

[@SideBrain]

You’re welcome

[@ayalav02]

Great vid! Can you share a vid on splitting Drum rack into individual tracks?

[@OlegMbIP]

bro u re realy coool! ;)

[@SideBrain]

Haha thank you!

[@abletondrummer]

So jealous of your cleaned up PLACES section in your Live browser!

[@SideBrain]

Haha I can’t find anything if it’s not clean. I clean it up every 6 months or so

[@theblowupdollsmusic]

I always learn so much from you. Thank you for all that you share with the community! "Pitch Playing" was new to me.

[@SideBrain]

Appreciate your kind words! Glad this helped

[@phobophob]

very good. :)

[@SideBrain]

Thank you!

[@keydaking01]

Your content is dope. Came from Tik Tok. Subbed immediately

[@SideBrain]

That’s awesome!

[@petedako]

very cool … wondering if/how whether these changes can be global to a saved drum rack or applied only to the instance of the drum rack loaded into the open project?

[@InnerHacking]

Is it possible to see the sounds that are playing in the drum rack when I simply click a drumkit preview? I remember I could do this on Ableton 10 but it doesn't seem to work any more on Ableton 12?

[@kriss12loverap]

Ableton should add a shortcut for pitch playing. Cause I’ve been on the lookout for how to pitch drums in rack. This is essential for trap hihats and made me not use drum rack. It should be like focus tracks. If u want to focus on a individual sound and pitch it. Didn’t know about that routing feature, very cool but a bit slow.

[@SideBrain]

Yes it is an extra step. Might be worth to have a while new simpler track just for hats

[@kikevelasco8605]

🐐

[@dnksaus]

Fuccin dope

[@SideBrain]

Thank you!

[@macrowave6759]

Check out split wizard you should make a video about it

[@NealCaen]

i dont really use drum rack... im always just dropping in my drum samples as audio. I find that easier to create grooves as i can see the samples and their exact start point, i can also just add individual effects easier and in drum rack its too many clicks away. Im really trying hard to convince myself to do drum rack but it just slows me down... only reason i consider it its for the possibilities. Also in audio samples i have complete control of the amplitude and gain instantly.

[@EarleMonroe]

That sample cycling tip with Impulse is definitely going to be useful for me. I could have used that a couple of months ago on a project. I’m gonna add that to a live looping set for sure

[@komicsreviewer8505]

I won't.

[@holledervolksmusik9981]

Not CTRL, press Alt-key to layer drums..

[@travelmusique]

I bought 808 Distortion Rack. But I can not import to my Ableton Live 11. I already text to you by email

[@SideBrain]

Hey I can’t see you email? Do you have the latest version of Ableton Suite?

[@zeridium9129]

Jean Dujardin???

[@SideBrain]

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