
This will eliminate any bleed over or overlap on any of your sample chops.

Specifically, this will give you the ability to cut off any previously triggered sample when a new sample is triggered. Setting up a choke group for your samples will enable you to trigger your samples like you may be familiar with using a MPC or other drum machine. This will ensure that your sample starts out in the original speed and tempo once it’s sliced using this preset. NOTE: Once you’ve mapped the transpose macro, I recommend you change the -48 st –> 0 st. Within the Sampler: Pitch/Osc > Transp > Right Click > Map to Macro 1 (or other macro of your choosing) That way once you’ve chopped your sample, you can simply use the macro knob to adjust the pitch and speed of every sample slice simultaneously. With the click of a button, you can easily map the transpose setting of the individual Sampler to the global Drum Rack macro. Feel free to experiment and customize it to your specific needs 🙂 1. So what would be some of these settings that we would want to utilize? Well, in this tutorial I’m going to show you how I would personalize my own preset to chop up my own samples. Now all we have to do is customize and set up our own personal settings to be saved within our preset. This is basic structure of setting up a custom slicing preset.

Step 1ĭrag an instance of a Drum Rack Instrument to a new MIDI track.ĭrag a new instance of a Sampler instrument into the C1 cell of your Drum Rack. You can use a Simpler instrument if you like, but we’ll be using a Sampler for the purposes of this tutorial. Why? A Simpler instrument is very basic in terms of the settings and overall control over the samples that you have, and the Sampler unlocks much more functionality for us. For our custom slice preset, we’re actually going to use a Sampler instrument instead. With the “Built-in” slicing preset we used to chop our sample in part 1, Ableton defaults to using a Simpler instrument for each of the sample slices within the drum rack. In this tutorial, we’ll be diving deeper into some of the more advanced sampling features and functionality in Live 9 and explaining step-by-step how to create a custom slice preset. You’re somewhat limited with the default slicing preset, and so you’ll more than likely want to personally customize it – specifically if you’re trying to emulate MPC style features. Just to recap quickly what we covered in the last video – a jump start into how to use the Slice to New MIDI track feature in Ableton to very easily chop up your samples and start making your sample-based production right away. WATCH PART 1 – SAMPLING IN ABLETON LIVE (EASY) > CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD 51 FREE HIP HOP DRUM SAMPLES > Sampling in Ableton Live 9 (MPC style)

Part 2 of the sampling in Ableton Live 9 tutorial series – exploring some advanced settings and how to create a custom slice preset and chop our samples MPC style building off the fundamentals we discussed in part 1.
