Ableton Drum Rack Mapping

Akai mpc500 mapping to the ableton live drum rack the akai mpc500 is a portable but powerful version of the larger mpc series units.

Ableton drum rack mapping.

The pad overview to the left shifts the set of visible pads up or down in groups of 16 either by dragging the view selector to a new area or by using your computer keyboard s up and. I ve seen that a lot of people couldn t find a mapping to use the f1 to control the drum racks on ableton so i basically made one. Sign in to download. The ableton drum rack has 8 banks of 16 pads.

Choose between 9 18 or 27 key switches. The keyswitch expression map is a max for live device which uses the instrument and effect racks of ableton live to provide you in a single track the possibility to switch easily between different software and hardware instruments articulations or effects. Drum rack pad view. Unique to drum rack is a large grid of 16 empty pads.

An image is worth a thousand words. Each pad represents one of the 128 available midi notes. You can drop drum samples instruments and effects onto to them when creating your drum kit i e a collection of drum sounds. Not only is it a capable sampler and sequencer in its own right but it can also serve conveniently as a midi controller for ableton live.

When loading a preset drum rack you will no longer see these note numbers but rather the names of the samples. Upload an edit of this mapping. However i came up against. Build your own customized key switches.

Traktor f1 ableton drum rack mapping pitchbend. The pad view is unique to drum racks and offers an easy way to map and manipulate samples and devices. When i started using drum racks i wanted to be able to use just one of them to store and sequence all of my drums in my project. All for one and one track for all.

Drag a new drum program or drum rack to the main ableton window.