Drum Racks Within Drum Racks

[timbreland]

What is the purpose of this? How is it useful? And how do you trigger pads in the 'nested' drum rack? I set the 'receive' of one of the nested pads to the same note as the pad it is on and it doesn't trigger. Anybody know?

[Michael Hatsis]

you have to set the MIDI note on the child d rack to the note that the parent drum rack is spitting out. usually this is C3...also you can set it to accept input from all notes...
usefulness, i usually just use instrument racks inside of drum racks. but you can probably get some nice layering effects going, also you get the sends...add to that an arp or two...

[R.J.Dubya]

you have to set the MIDI note on the child d rack to the note that the parent drum rack is spitting out. usually this is C3...also you can set it to accept input from all notes...
usefulness, i usually just use instrument racks inside of drum racks.

This reminds me - I picked up the drum droids recently, and I gotta say, thank you for using instrument racks inside the drum racks for the components. I am in huge agreement with that philosophy.

About the question, nested drum racks can be good for for many things, like having different (multiple) pads triggered by hitting one pad. I don't have session drums, but I think the multi-micing setups would make use of this. The most straight forward benefit that I appreciate nested drum racks for though, is that you can apply insert effects like compression to multiple hits together without splitting up the track, bu creating a nested drum rack from those individual pad chains.

[jngpng]

I use nested Drum Racks quite a bit. Stick a Random plug + a Drum Rack on one of the pads of your master Drum Rack, and then fill the nested drum rack up with variatons of a single sample. Thats a really easy way to bring a bit of variation and life into a kit.

[3dot...]

...you can also route 'child' d racks audio to any of it's parents output or to its Send tracks...