So you got yourself a pack of real acoustic drum samples with multiple velocity layers (and maybe even round robins): what's next? How do you program your drum racks and simplers in ableton to actually make the most out of all those samples, and get a very realistic drum sound with MIDI? In this video we'll cover how incorporate multiple velocity layers, in the next one we'll take a look at round robins.

Find all my tutorials in this playlist:

   • Tutorials  

00:00 What are velocity layers?
01:39 Instrument Racks VS Simpler
03:45 "One Shot" VS "Classic"
05:10 Multiple instances of Simpler
06:43 The "Vel" pane
09:30 Shortcut for different articulations
11:08 What are roundrobins?
12:50 Some live finger drumming