How to Play Melodies with One Drum Pad in Ableton Live (2 Methods for Live Lite and up)
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- In this tutorial, we'll look at two approaches to setting up a drum pad in a Drum Rack to play a melody, such as a bass line, alongside our beats. This tip is particularly useful if you are using Ableton Live to perform with an electronic drum kit, or as a controllerist using Push or a similar MIDI controller, but you can also use this approach creatively in your own music productions.
The first method requires the free Max for Live device TriggerTune (link below). The second works with Live Lite and above, and all we need is an audio sample with the melody, Simpler and the Random MIDI effect.
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00:00 Intro
00:36 With the free Max for Live Device TriggerTune (Suite only)
03:05 With Drum Articulate by Max for Cats
03:47 With Simpler (Live Lite and up)
07:36 Outro
I often thought about this idea, and you showed it, thanks! I'm gonna try to assign a rising fast scale arpeggio to a pad.
Have fun!
@@sonicbloomtuts actually I realized that this can be approached just with an audio sample. But still I would like to use your approach somehow :)
Hello Madeleine. Nice work! A silly question but Im struggling to midi mapping that "play" button! Once I did all the process and the Drum rack trigger the arpeggio or the notes one at the time with the "play" button via my mouse, when choose "midi" in ableton to do the mapping and the instances show in purple it does not allow that "play" button turn in to purple in any of the two instances! so can't make my external drum pad to trigger that "play button" Did you know why is that ? and how to fix it? I just want that Ableton recognize via midi the "play" button. Thank you in advance and continue with your discoveries.
MIDI mapping isn't necessary. Every drum pad in a drum rack corresponds to a specific MIDI note. You can hover over one and see in the bottom left corner, which one it is. So you either have to set you electronic drum pad to that MIDI note or move your melody setup into the correct drum pad for your external drum pad.
@@sonicbloomtuts OH! I did not espect your answer so soon! Thank you! Im going to check it as soon as I can bcouse this opens a lot of possibilities for musicians like me who are reluctant to use electronic drums, now just with Ableton "Lite" and one drum pad can trigger a full melody and improvise with it.😊
There exist also a m4l device that can trigger midi-files.
I didn't know that. I checked what else there was out there, but most were no better than TriggerTune. Do you know the name or even better have a link?
What a fantastic technique! I do have a question but I’m not sure how to word it. Here goes, can you set this up so the note being triggered changes with the time location in the bar? Basically, the note being triggered at the beginning of the bar will always be the same note. If you hit the assigned drum pad twice in the first 1/4 of the bar, that note will be played twice. If you hit the drum pad in the second 1/4 of the bar, the second note as many time as you trigger the pad. I hope this makes sense. Regardless, this is a wonderful example of how to make electronic music more performative. Great video! Great channel! Thanks again!
Yes, totally makes sense. It's definitely not possible with TriggerTune or Drum Articulate, and I don't know if this was even possible via Max for Live. I don't know if the Live API passes the exact positions in a way that this could be programmed. Basically, the way this works is whenever you trigger the drum pad, it moves one step further like in a step sequencer.
Thanks so much for responding. I think what I love most about Ableton is also the most frustrating at times. Everything you can think of doing is a little bit of a puzzle. But there’s always a solution somewhere. And if you can’t find the solution, there’s always Max. Both of those devises look amazing. Thanks again for the videos!@@sonicbloomtuts
No worries. I think this is the reason why I got stuck with Ableton Live after trying various DAWs over the years or even decades. I just love puzzles.