DRUM RACK can slow down your GUI !! here's a workaround.
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DRUM RACK can slow down your GUI !! here's a workaround.
I don't know about you guys and gals
but i like to have a wide variety of samples in my drum racks
so i can pick and choose as i write my music.
i very rarely start a project and think
" i know exactly the drum sound i need for this"
more often i like to drop large groups of drum sounds from my sample collection onto drum rack and audition them as i write.
I find this much more inspirational especially for techno which is what i write.
Problem was, that lot's of seperate tracks of drum racks bursting with drum sounds was slowing down the computer to the point where crashes and ghost parts and all sorts of wierd things were starting to happen.
and it was seriously p***ing me off!
so , talked to the very helpful ableton guys about this
and we worked this out:
drum rack defaults to use the simpler as the sample editor right?
and the simpler loads all your samples into RAM by default and theres no way to change that.
so , if you have 50 or so drum samples in several different drum racks , ie: 50 kicks in on drum rack . 50 snares in another 50 hi hats etc etc etc ...
Ableton's RAM based functions ( such as copying, deleting, pasting, changing scenes etc ) will slow right down and get glitchy because the ram is full of all these ( largely unused ) samples.
so: the workaround :
create a midi track
drag an empty sampler onto it and set it up the way you like it
( don't turn the RAM button on! )
once it's all ready to go, drag it from the track
into the ableton library in your browser
to the " dropping samples " folder
and drop it in the folder " on drum rack "
next time you pull out a drum rack
it'll use the sampler instead of the simpler as it's editor
the samples will play direct from your hard disk not from RAM and ableton will run at a much better speed because of this.
for me, this setting is CONSIDERABLY faster than before.
so if you are having this particular problem give it a go.
hope this is of some help.
cheers
d
Mac Intel Dual Core 266GHz, 4GB RAM, OSX 10.4.11
Ableton 7.0.10 , Digidesign 002R
but i like to have a wide variety of samples in my drum racks
so i can pick and choose as i write my music.
i very rarely start a project and think
" i know exactly the drum sound i need for this"
more often i like to drop large groups of drum sounds from my sample collection onto drum rack and audition them as i write.
I find this much more inspirational especially for techno which is what i write.
Problem was, that lot's of seperate tracks of drum racks bursting with drum sounds was slowing down the computer to the point where crashes and ghost parts and all sorts of wierd things were starting to happen.
and it was seriously p***ing me off!
so , talked to the very helpful ableton guys about this
and we worked this out:
drum rack defaults to use the simpler as the sample editor right?
and the simpler loads all your samples into RAM by default and theres no way to change that.
so , if you have 50 or so drum samples in several different drum racks , ie: 50 kicks in on drum rack . 50 snares in another 50 hi hats etc etc etc ...
Ableton's RAM based functions ( such as copying, deleting, pasting, changing scenes etc ) will slow right down and get glitchy because the ram is full of all these ( largely unused ) samples.
so: the workaround :
create a midi track
drag an empty sampler onto it and set it up the way you like it
( don't turn the RAM button on! )
once it's all ready to go, drag it from the track
into the ableton library in your browser
to the " dropping samples " folder
and drop it in the folder " on drum rack "
next time you pull out a drum rack
it'll use the sampler instead of the simpler as it's editor
the samples will play direct from your hard disk not from RAM and ableton will run at a much better speed because of this.
for me, this setting is CONSIDERABLY faster than before.
so if you are having this particular problem give it a go.
hope this is of some help.
cheers
d
Mac Intel Dual Core 266GHz, 4GB RAM, OSX 10.4.11
Ableton 7.0.10 , Digidesign 002R
the old ones are always the best
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I have defaults for just about everything including the effects and slicer algorithms.
Make sure you have Sampler set for "Show preset name" if you want to see the sample name in the drum rack. Otherwise you see "Sampler" for everything.
Also you might want to tweak the amplitude envelopes for drums and not use the default settings.
Make sure you have Sampler set for "Show preset name" if you want to see the sample name in the drum rack. Otherwise you see "Sampler" for everything.
Also you might want to tweak the amplitude envelopes for drums and not use the default settings.
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nicearachnaut wrote:I have defaults for just about everything including the effects and slicer algorithms.
Make sure you have Sampler set for "Show preset name" if you want to see the sample name in the drum rack. Otherwise you see "Sampler" for everything.
Also you might want to tweak the amplitude envelopes for drums and not use the default settings.
the old ones are always the best
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one sampler per sample same as before
you can still apply effects to individual sounds same as with simpler
just click the little arrow at the top and drag your fx onto the channel you want.
it doesn't seem to have any downsides, using sampler instead of simpler
except you have to buy sampler of course.
i got it because you can load logics factory esx24 patches into it.
another very good use for it
and of course for rex file conversion too
I don't think there is a time where simpler will be much more cpu efficient
so i would just use sampler all the time
unless you just want less knobs to twiddle.
you can still apply effects to individual sounds same as with simpler
just click the little arrow at the top and drag your fx onto the channel you want.
it doesn't seem to have any downsides, using sampler instead of simpler
except you have to buy sampler of course.
i got it because you can load logics factory esx24 patches into it.
another very good use for it
and of course for rex file conversion too
I don't think there is a time where simpler will be much more cpu efficient
so i would just use sampler all the time
unless you just want less knobs to twiddle.
the old ones are always the best
Re: DRUM RACK can slow down your GUI !! here's a workaround.
sick sick sickdavethedrummer wrote:I don't know about you guys and gals
but i like to have a wide variety of samples in my drum racks
so i can pick and choose as i write my music.
i very rarely start a project and think
" i know exactly the drum sound i need for this"
more often i like to drop large groups of drum sounds from my sample collection onto drum rack and audition them as i write.
I find this much more inspirational especially for techno which is what i write.
Problem was, that lot's of seperate tracks of drum racks bursting with drum sounds was slowing down the computer to the point where crashes and ghost parts and all sorts of wierd things were starting to happen.
and it was seriously p***ing me off!
so , talked to the very helpful ableton guys about this
and we worked this out:
drum rack defaults to use the simpler as the sample editor right?
and the simpler loads all your samples into RAM by default and theres no way to change that.
so , if you have 50 or so drum samples in several different drum racks , ie: 50 kicks in on drum rack . 50 snares in another 50 hi hats etc etc etc ...
Ableton's RAM based functions ( such as copying, deleting, pasting, changing scenes etc ) will slow right down and get glitchy because the ram is full of all these ( largely unused ) samples.
so: the workaround :
create a midi track
drag an empty sampler onto it and set it up the way you like it
( don't turn the RAM button on! )
once it's all ready to go, drag it from the track
into the ableton library in your browser
to the " dropping samples " folder
and drop it in the folder " on drum rack "
next time you pull out a drum rack
it'll use the sampler instead of the simpler as it's editor
the samples will play direct from your hard disk not from RAM and ableton will run at a much better speed because of this.
for me, this setting is CONSIDERABLY faster than before.
so if you are having this particular problem give it a go.
hope this is of some help.
cheers
d
Mac Intel Dual Core 266GHz, 4GB RAM, OSX 10.4.11
Ableton 7.0.10 , Digidesign 002R
cheers for this, been really bugging me