I use impulse because I could use more than one sample at a time. For example, I can laydown two drums kicks, a snare, and some hihats all within the same clip.

Drum Racks, though prior to that existing I used to use Impulse.

Sampler I'll use for samples that I either want to play as an instrument or just manipulate in less-than-conventional ways. Chances are you're not fucking with your kick in any crazy ways throughout your track, but rather just want to lay it down as part of the drum groove.

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Drum Rack because in Impulse you can't use seperate effects on seperate sounds if you wanted to.

Drum Rack serves more of a Layer of a whole bunch of Simplers. You can effect any sound with seperate effects from other sounds loaded or you can put effects on the whole drum rack channel or both. Plus you can individually level them with the session view faders instead of having to open Impulse then select the sound to use volume knob.

The other cool thing about drum rack is that you can add Simplers of different channels into it and remove Simplers to their own channels as well if wanted/needed. Another thing Impulse can't do.

Oh and you can also put Samplers into the drum rack. Drum Rack loads Simplers by default, but if you open a Sampler you can then place the Sampler into the drum rack (to do things like reverse samples and such that Simpler can't do).

And I keep the kick on its seperate channel in a Simpler.

just my two cents.

Last edited by Nightshift on Aug-26-2009 at 06:26

I just started using Live 8 a few weeks ago and I definitely prefer drum racks for my workflow, mostly because I like having everything on its own track, with its own effects chain, etc. Drum racks are great - I wish my other DAWs had them.

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I used to love Impulse, I still do. But when the drum racks were introduced it just took things to a new level in Ableton, the drum racks are brilliant. Fact.

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Originally posted by DjWoody I use impulse because I could use more than one sample at a time. For example, I can laydown two drums kicks, a snare, and some hihats all within the same clip.

you have all your percussion in the same channel??

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I used to use impulse too but now just use drum racks so much easier.

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Yea the drum rack is brilliant. Nothing even comes close in software or hardware.

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Haha, I feel like I'm really missing out the way people are talking about Drum Racks. I am way behind and still just have Live 5. Fortunately my parents got me an upgrade to Live 8 for my birthday.

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Originally posted by Nightshift Drum Rack because in Impulse you can't use seperate effects on seperate sounds if you wanted to.

You can put effects on separate channels using Impulse. You just route the sample to a audio channel.

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Originally posted by EgosXII you have all your percussion in the same channel??

lol do u have all your drums separate? if id do that id have 30 channels before getting to the synths and basses and efex and pads. id be having 45 channels lol as im using 16 normaly. or was it 14? dont remember how many channels Re-Mix in reason have.