Ableton Live Sampler Round Robin

This article describes two methods to create round robin sample playback using simpler or sampler in live.

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Alternatively sampler has an addition that lets you select samples with an lfo. Round robin with ableton live s sampler. It cycles thru the range of notes. From one resampled acoustic drum triggering short melodies or triggering different sounds in a row cycle via just one incoming midi note e g.

In this ableton live tutorial liam o mullane shows you how to load in sounds to these devices and play them with your midi controller. Fortunately ableton live features two modern day sampling devices within the daw namely simpler and sampler. Possible use cases vary from cycling via different drum samples e g. 0x80 august 7 2014 at 10 26 pm.

You still get a lot of times where the same sample repeats 2 or more times. All of the samples in this video were. Simpler is bundled with every version of ableton live. Extra video on applying these tips https www ed.

Liam also explores root notes key zones one shot drum hits how to share your sampler. Modulate sampler with clip envelopes and arrangement automation or use your midi controller for real time hands on tweaking. Round robin cycles through the samples and never repeats the same sample twice. In the sampler department you could say that ableton has you covered.

From an eletronic drum pad or button from an external midi hardware. Obviously the bell only plays one note but i wanted it to sound natural so i recorded about a minute of ringing it chopped out five samples that were around the same volume and layered them in sampler as described. Sampler integrates perfectly with live drawing much of its power from live s features. Live 7 has an improvement to the random plugin which is basically a round robin mode.

Round robin is a method of sample playback which allows you to play different sampled versions of the same sound resulting in natural variations in otherwise static patterns. I was trying to create a round robin of a small ceramic bell from india. A video tutorial detailing how to create alternating samples round robin techniques in ableton live suite 8 using the sampler instrument. This device lets you trigger cycles of up to 5 midi note pitches from up to 8 trigger notes.

Sampler is an extremely powerful instrument but it s still easy to get results thanks to its familiar intuitive user interface.