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Regarding the questions about Ableton Drum racks. Let’s continue here! I might write the obvious but here goes:
A drum rack in Live is an instrument like an “empty mpc” that you drag in. It has 128 slots that can hold, well basically anything. If you drag in an audio-file on an empty pad, it will load an Ableton Simpler on that pad. This means you can go into that Simpler on the pad and tweak the sample how you want it.
Let’s say you want to create a layered kick-drum from three samples. You want the low boom from one, the hi click from another and the mid from a third.You can then CMD-drag (mac)/CTRL-drag these samples onto the same pad. They will now order themselves in three chains - and will be simultaneously triggered when the midi-note to the pad is received.
On another pad you want a snare. And you want a reverb on just the snare. So you drag the effect onto the snare-pad. Basically a pad in a drumrack can host anything, it’s like its own channel.
Chains - another great feature, that let you play multiple synths simultaneously, or have parallell processing with effects on the same channel etc.
