First 20 minutes from class

 

Drum Rack Hacks Overview

Drum Racks, One of the most powerful tools in Ableton Live. This session is perfect for all skill levels looking to elevate their drum programming and finger drumming techniques. This session covers everything from essential setup to advanced tricks, offering a deep dive into how to make the most out of Drum Racks in your productions.

This session is beginner friendly but also cover more advanced Drum Rack techniques.

Key Learning Points:

• How to Drum Racks: Start with a solid foundation as we explore Drum Rack basics, from setup to essential functions, making it easy to hit the ground running.
• Layering: Discover how to craft fuller, richer more unique sounds by layering multiple samples inside Drum Racks, allowing for complex drum textures and dynamic beats.
• Return Chains:  add extra effects using return chains within Drum Racks, perfect for adding reverb, delay, and creative processing or route your Drum Rack Chains to a Return chain functioning as a group bus to mix and glue together the different sound of the Drum Rack.
• Choke Groups: What are they, how to set them up and how to use them not only on Hats.
• MIDI Effects Techniques & Drum Racks: Explore MIDI effects tailored for Drum Racks to add groove, randomness, and rhythmic variation to your beats. Great for creative Drum Programming and Live Finger Drumming performance.
• Drum Rack Modulators: Learn to integrate modulators like LFOs and expression control, adding randomization and movement to individual drum hits within Drum Racks.
• Finger Drumming Tricks: Boost your performance skills with finger drumming techniques, and get hands-on tips for expressive, live drumming within Drum Racks.
• Best Pad Controllers: Explore the options for the best option for your studio/stage as a producer and/or finger drummer.

 

Break Bus Driver Rack

An exclusive Audio Effect Rack you can use on all your breakbeats tracks and/or Drum groups.

This rack combines saturations, compression, short reverbs, rhythmic delays and transient shaping.

This rack will make your drums sounds fatter and fuller.

Macros:

Drive – Waveshaping distortion from the Drum Buss

Crunch – Mid/High Distortion

GAINNN – Controls the makeup gain of the Glue Compressor before the last stage of Soft and Hard Clipping

Saturate – Analog Drive before final clipping

Room Space – Drums Plate reverb

Groove Echo – Syncopated 1/4 notes for added groove

Tilt Filter – Tilt EQ to adjust the balance of the highs and lows

Comp – Last compressor stage

 

Ableton Live 8 Compressor

Compressor from Ableton Live 8 featuring Feed Forward Side Chain compression which results in a much cleaner click free compression.

 

What's Included with this session

• 2+ hours of Ableton Certified Training Video
• Break Bus Driver Audio Effect Rack
• Ableton Live 8 Compressor for Clean Side Chaining

 

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ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Yeuda Ben-Atar, a world renowned Ableton Certified Trainer, hails from Los Angeles, California. Originally from Israel, Yeuda’s passion for music led him to the United States, where he discovered his true calling with Ableton Live in 2007, embarking on a journey of mastery.

He approaches Ableton in a unique way; producing and performing with video game controllers under the moniker Side Brain.

One of Yeuda’s most remarkable qualities is his exceptional knowledge and speed, combined with his unparalleled ability to explain complex concepts in a simple and engaging manner.

With years of experience as a music production instructor and educator, Yeuda has contributed his expertise to prestigious institutions throughout the United States, including USC, UCLA, UCSD, Colburn Music School, Berkley School of Music, Cal Arts, NAMM, Skywalker Sounds, Bedrock LA, Sonos Studios, Sweetwater Headquarters, 1500 or Nothing studios, Grammy U, Pensado’s Place, Vintage King, Museum of Making Music, Lynda.com (now known as Linkedin Learning), and Perfect Circuit Audio, among many others.

His projects have included working with and teaching artists such as Timbaland, Ludacris, Lavel Kali(Beyonce, Drake) DJ Numark and Jurassic 5, Beck, Skrillex, Flying Lotus, Ed Sheeran, Rick Rubin, Giorgio Moroder, Simi, Bootie Brown (Pharcyde), Dave Pensado, Madison Mcferrin and countless others.