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We're going to take this drum rack a step further and
create something that's referred to as a selector kit.
So you can just download selector kit packs off of the Ableton site.
What it's going to do in essence is allow us to put up to
a 128 samples on a single pad here.
So let's say this is where I kick drums will live.
We can put a 128 kick drums right inside of
this one cell and assign a knob to cycle through them,
so that we can quickly go from one kick to the next.
I really like this because it's the idea of a template,
which is really popular in say Pro Tools template sections,
where I can create template drum racks,
where everything is just right at my fingertips,
I've got all my favorite samples there.
So right now we're looking at an empty drum rack.
We're going to do exactly what I just described using samplers,
right inside of each individual cell in drum rack.
So let's begin by grabbing an instance of
sampler and pulling it directly onto a cell here.
It shows up in our chains.
Sampler is a complex device,
it's much more robust than simpler and there's a lot more to it that,
we're not going to really get into,
but what we are interested in is these zone selections that we can make here.
I'm going to start by looking at the chain selector.
So we've already looked at what a chain is and that we can have many different chains
and a chain selector is just going through and selecting which chain we're currently on.
But we've taken this to another level because we've
got this happening inside of a single device,
and it'll make a lot more sense when we just take a look at it in action.
So I'm going to go to drums.
We're going to go to my kicks here,
and I'll just grab one and drag it in here.
Another grab a bunch more from down here.
These are all coming with me.
Some other things cannot come with me. All right.
So this is just an arbitrary number of samples, [MUSIC]
and I have them just randomly dropped into this device.
So right now, I have more than one sample living on this inside of this sampler.
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If I press play,
that's all of those kicks being played at the same time which
does not sound good. All right.
So what I want to do is equally distribute these samples across this chain selector.
Then I'm going to use this blue line which is the chain selector to cycle through them.
So I'm going to select all of the samples right-clicking,
and you can see I can distribute ranges equally,
which then puts all of these samples across the chain selector.
I can just grab this here.
Let me close the zone here,
and we'll just play kicks [MUSIC] for a moment
and get back up.
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I'm really quickly cycling through all of
these different kick drums that I have inside of this one sampler device.
Now, to take this a step further I'm going to map the chain selector to a macro knob.
So this is like an internal MIDI mapping functionality.
We've already looked at the internal processing functionality in terms
of serial and parallel MIDI and audio effects processing.
But I can also do somewhat of an internal MIDI mapping as well.
So I'm going to click on map here.
I'm going to select the chain selector by clicking on it and I am going to map it there.
On getting out of map mode,
and then you can see as I move this rotary,
the chain selector goes with it.
So I'm just going to launch that clip again.
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So this could be a really nice way to cycle through samples view,
already have a sequence,
and you're trying to find the right kick to match all of your snares.
You decide maybe you need a different scenario.
You can just go right in and do whatever it is that you need to do.
So I'm going to just quickly do this again, so you can see it,
and going to instruments sampler,
going to drop in an empty cell here.
Here's the second part of my chain about two chains inside of this device now,
opening up the zones,
going to the selector.
Going to my drum sounds.
This time, we'll do hi-hats,
just going to grab a bunch,
drop him on, right-click,
distribute ranges equally, and then I'm going to
map this chain selector to this second macro knob here.
I can go in and I can rename this.
I'll call this hi-hat.
I'll close the zones.
This is a kick and hi-hat now.
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Back to the drum rack,
and as I play this, I'm just going to use
the macro and opt to cycle through these different samples now.
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So in addition to being a really great way to have samples right at your fingertips,
there's a bunch of other possibilities with this device.
In the last video, I had referenced having many different iterations of
one sample like a hi-hat just being played at different velocities,
different places of a stick hitting a cymbal.
I could do the exact same thing and just have
128 different versions of one hi-hat in one sampler.
Then use the chain selector to just randomly move through them.
So you actually only sequencing things on one part of the piano roll or one MIDI note,
but within this MIDI note,
I can sample through 128 versions of a hi-hat,
which is maybe much more like a regular drummer would execute this.
So this is a really great way to execute many ideas,
whether it's a template,
maybe you're trying to do something completely random and creative
with it which is outside of what I've just suggested or outlined,
the possibilities are pretty limitless,
and these selector kits are very very powerful and they can contain so many samples.
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