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Drum Racks that are nested within other Drum Racks, both drum chains and return chains
can route upwards to the returns of any of the Drum Racks that contain them.
17.6.1
Pad View
Pad View.
The Pad View is unique to Drum Racks and offers an easy way to map and manipulate
samples and devices. Each pad represents one of the 128 available MIDI notes. The pad
overview to the right shifts the set of visible pads up or down in octave increments, either by
dragging the view selector to a new area or by using your computer keyboard's
and
keys. Use the
Alt
(PC) /
(Mac) modi er to shift the view by single rows instead.
Almost any object from Live's Browser
samples, effects, instruments and presets
can be
dragged onto a pad, mapping automatically to the pad's note and creating or recon guring
internal chains and devices as necessary. Dropping a sample onto an empty pad, for
example, creates a new chain containing a
Simpler
, with the dropped sample ready to
play from the pad's note. If you then drag an audio effect to the same pad, it is placed
downstream from the Simpler in the same chain. To replace the Simpler, simply drop another
sample onto the same pad any downstream audio effects or upstream MIDI effects will be
left intact and only the Simpler and sample will be replaced.
If a multi-selection of samples is dropped onto an empty pad, new Simplers and chains will
be mapped upwards chromatically from this pad, replacing any other samples that may have
already been assigned to the pads in question (but, as before, leaving any effects devices
alone).
Alt
(PC) /
(Mac)-dragging a multi-selection layers all of the samples to
