hello everybody my name is InspirAspir
and welcome back to part 5 of my launch
pad cover tutorial series in this video
we'll go over how to multi sample which
is assigning multiple sounds and samples
to a single button and we'll also go
over what exactly this random midi
effect does, now I don't imagine this
will take too much time
so let's go ahead and jump right into
it and get it done. To start, let's
pretend we want to we want to assign
multiple sounds to a single button so
maybe this button on the launchpad
and I'm going to be in page one and I
want this button so to do that it's
actually a lot easier than you would
think i would first go to my page one
and then i would go to the button that I
want. So I'm on page one, I'm pressing the
button that I want, and you can see down
here is that this button is lighting up.
Meaning this is the corresponding button
so i want to assign my samples to so now
i'm going to go to the top left of
Ableton, and click under instruments
and then drag in a new instrument
rack into that sample button but I chose
what this does is it creates an entire
rack of potential samples that we can
drop in that can be assigned to just
this button so let's go to my stem that
I covered in Part 2 and let's find some
sounds I want to have time to that
button so i have this layer of base
let's say for example of our players you
might not be able to hear much but I
promise that sounds coming through i can
hear it right now in my headphones
let's say that I want this sound
to play on this button so it's kind of
like I would any other sound let's say I
also want i don't know for example this
sound to play at the same time all I
would do is cut that up just like I
would for any other samples
maybe I also want to have this sound
this cymbal crash maybe I want that to
play at the same time again I would
split up just like any other sample now
if that's all that I want then I'm gonna
go back to my sample to go back to my
sample tracks and all i'm going to do is
drag in the samples into the instrument
rack i created before and then one thing
I recommend doing is clicking this
button to expand your instrument or
accuracy what samples you have included
and all i'm going to do is drag in all
of the samples now if I play this button
they all play which is nice so now
that's one really easy basic way to get
a bunch of sounds on one button but now
i'm gonna go over what's called multi
sampling which is where you can play
multiple sounds on a single button but
each time you press it a different
sample occurs so let's say I want to do
that on this button i'm actually gonna
use the same exact concept i'm going to
drag in my instrument rack onto the
given button i'm going to expand the
instrument rack and I'm just gonna
dragging whatever samples that I want
let's use these lead samples that i cut
up in part to just for the sake of
demonstration and i'm going to drag
these into my instrument rack right now
if I were to press this button i have a
feeling that sounds very bad because all
my samples are playing at the same time
which I don't want so to fix this i'm
gonna go over to my midi effects and put
in a random midi effect in front of my
instrument rack so I just click and drag
until a blue bar with the left of the
instrument rack and so what this random
many effect is going to let us do it's
going to allow us to cycle through all
of these samples so I'm going to up this
chance to a hundred percent i just
clicked and dragged up and then we want
the number of choices to be however my
samples we have
it looks like we have 16 samples i'm
going to change this number 26 auditors
click and type in the number and then
i'm going to change this mode to alt all
i did was i click that button once and
that will allow us to step through these
one at a time in order next I'm going to
click on my first sample and then click
Ally note and then double click this
green bar that quote unquote a science
this first example to the first touch of
the button then i'm going to press this
button again and you'll notice that
there's red bar moved one semitone to
the right of the green bar the way just
drawn in and that's because this random
the random devices doing its work so
while holding this going to double-click
the second sample and that assignment to
the second touch of the button then i'm
going to press it again notice the red
bar moved and i'm going to double-click
this third samples green bar and then
assigns it to the third touch the button
you can tell it's working when you can
see these green bars they're sort of
slanting down that means that you're
being assigned one after each other now
for us again and repeat the process all
the way down then what happens is each
time i press this button a different
sound will occur now one problem it's
already happening
one thing that just happened that you
might have noticed as these have become
out-of-tune whether pitches on all wonky
because moving these green bars
technically is moving its semitone up by
one think of this first sample as the
base and then every subsequent sample
after that is being moved up one
semitone into the pitch is being shifted
which we don't want in order to maintain
that sound all we do is go to each
sample after the first starting with the
second one
all we do is dragging a pitch mini
effect
onto that sample and we do that for all
of these i'm gonna go ahead and drag a
pitch on to each of these alright so I
just dragged a pitch many effect on to
every sample except for the first the
first doesn't need to be adjusted but
then we need to do is adjust to
counteract the semi tones and in order
to do that you just adjust the pitch of
your second sample down one semitone and
then for your third sample you just
knock that down two semitones and your
for three down three semitones and so on
so I just adjusted all of my sample
starting with my second each subsequent
sample you knocked down one more
semitone and that balancing each other
out so now if i press this button every
time i press this button a different
sound occurs and every sample is in tune
and in theory they don't have to all be
for example I use my lead kind of
violence since as an example you don't
have to make them all that I could have
thrown in
maybe as an example i can throw in a
picture on to replace my third button
press or something like that so right
now for the present one time to find the
third time are kicking sound and then
move on
so what I'm getting at here is you can
press a button multiple tired within any
given page impressive multiple styles
and have different sounds occur each
time and you can actually the same
concept for your lights midi track to
using this random effect if you go to
any light effect let's say I want to go
to page three and press I don't know
this button
ok I got a page three and my mini lights
effect i create a new chain i press this
button double click the green bar so not
only sign of these buttons if i were to
put in another midi effect racks on just
that button and then put a random device
in front of it then I can cycle through
multiple light effects for every time i
press this button if that makes any
sense
I'm gonna expand this manufacturer just
so i can see it up this chance two
hundred percent i'm gonna say i don't
know three different light effects just
for demonstration purposes you can go up
to 24 it looks like
the changes made to alternate and then
i'm going to create three new chains so
i press this button will put this cream
bar need to make two more and then I
just move each 11 after each other for
making a a diagonal line with the green
bars so now it doesn't look like much
but technically you can i press this
button into effect happens as you can
see so then within each of these chains
i could then make whatever I want maybe
like a mean my first effect could just
be a simple vertical bar maybe my second
effect could be of a pulsating effect
like this new my third effects can be a
different color just like that hopefully
get the concept of it basically for
either your samples or your lights if
you throw in an entire either instrument
lack for many effect racks respectively
and then if you put a random many
devices in front of it with an alternate
alternative modes with your number of
choices and you can cycle through any
number of effects or samples just like
here with my life I can have a pulsating
fact i press the same button never a
different color vertical bar that sort
of thing and this is all within one page
of course you can then do it in
different pages to so remember like this
is my samples on page 12 pressing the
same button i'm not changing pages and
we can actually pretty pretty versatile
can help you make some unique covers if
you want to have all of your drop sample
is located on one page
what you want to save some space and use
multiple buttons to have friends down
this is very useful so hopefully that
helps you out hopefully understood what
I was talking about not too complicated
once you get the hang of it it's pretty
much the same concept over and over and
over again so I think that'll do it
in fact i think that might wrap up this
tutorial series it's sort of tentative i
might be one more video I might not
we'll see for now this might be the end
but anyways thanks for watching I really
appreciate it you know i do and I will see you
all in the next video