Integrate Addictive Drums 2 with Ableton Live and Push
Push Layout
64 Pads for direct control
This Drum Rack integrates Addictive Drums 2 into Push's drum layout, enabling you to use the step sequencer like you would with any other Drum Rack preset. Use a compact drumkit with 16 drum pads in Push's Loop Selector and 16 Velocities layouts, or go to the 64 Pads layout to use all of the pads for additional snare, hihat, toms, rides, cymbals and flexis hits.
- Ableton Live Loops can be dragged into either Session or Arrangement View; most of you will opt for Session View due to its loop-friendly, continuous playback. We’ll cover the use of Arrangement View later on as it can be a handy editing environment. Once a loop is within Live it will be automatically Warped so that the beats and tempo are.
- Most of the Session Drums presets come with a maximum of 32 pads. Use a compact drumkit with 16 drum pads in Push's Loop Selector and 16 Velocities layouts, or go to the 64 Pads layout to use all of the pads for additional snare, hihat, toms, rides, cymbals and percussion hits.
- Drum Programming With Ableton Live. This tutorial is a introduction to midi drum programing using Ableton Live and Drum Racks. To start off we will be making a basic 1 bar drum loop, and then quickly expand the basic drum loop to dynamic 32 bar drum pattern. The first thing we need to do is open Ableton Live and load a drumrack into a midi track.
Session Drums: Have a Seat. Created in collaboration with ChocolateAudio, makers of the acclaimed Imperial Drums, Session Drums delivers great natural-sounding acoustic drums to Ableton Live users. Session Drums covers a wide range of styles and offers deep customization capabilities, all from within Live's familiar workflow. Ableton Live's Session view is an excellent playground for generating ideas. The Arrangement area is a great place to arrange, edit, and finish your tracks. Here's how to turn your ideas into tracks. Once you’ve wrapped your head around it, it’s all too easy to fall in love with Live’s Session view. Who doesn’t love jamming on loops for.
Intensity Control
Session Drums Ableton Pro
Control the energy of the drummer with ease
This MIDI Effect Rack offers 8 Macro knobs which make it possible to easily control velocity values of incoming MIDI notes. Use the 'Main Intensity' knob to control the entire drumkit at once, or use the 7 other knobs to control each of the kit pieces separately. Turn down a knob to get softer drum sounds, or turn it up for them to intensify.
Random Control
Humanise where necessary
Similar to Intensity Control, this MIDI Effect Rack has 8 Macro knobs that offer control over the randomness that's applied to velocity values of incoming MIDI notes. The higher the value on the knob, the more random the velocity output becomes, resulting in samples with different intensities being triggered in Addictive Drums 2.
Ghost Note Generator *
Add spontaneous ghost notes
The Ghost Note Generator creates ghost notes at random in a controlled environment. Use the length of MIDI notes to determine which notes may receive additional ghost notes for the duration of the initial note, and use the Chain Mute buttons on the right to determine which kit pieces are allowed to produce ghost notes in general. The Macro knobs control the max velocity output and disperse generated ghost notes.
Clean Mixer
Comprehensible and clear
The mixer in the Session View offers volume controls of all different kit pieces, while all the routing of audio and MIDI happens in collapsed tracks, out of view.
Works with any AD2 kit
AD2 Suite comes with a project file from which you can easily import the entire Drum Rack channel into an existing project.
The AD2 Push Layout is configured to work with any Addictive Drums 2 kit, as long as the custom MIDI mapping inside the plug-in remains unchanged.
Empty Kit
The Addictive Drums plugin in the project file has an empty kit loaded by default, meaning you can build your kit from the ground up, or switch to one of your favourite preset kits.
Session Drums Multimic Ableton Pack
Minimum Requirements
- Live 10.1 Standard or Suite - Ableton.com
- Addictive Drums 2 - XLNAudio.com
- Max for Live *
Session Drums Studio Ableton
* Ghost Note Generator uses a Max for Live LFO. If you do not own Max for Live, see the manual for a workaround.