From the course: Ableton Live: Producing Electronic Music
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Programming pads and mapping macros - Ableton Live Tutorial
From the course: Ableton Live: Producing Electronic Music
Programming pads and mapping macros
- [Instructor] Now let's keep going and create some pad sounds with instrument racks. I'm gonna show you, again, how to dive further into instrument racks, add some effects and map out macros to some common parameters, so you can access them and effect parameters on some of the different synths that you have in your instrument rack all at once. So let's delete these two audio tracks, and this one midi track. Let's go into our browser. We're going to, again, select instrument racks. This time let's start with operator. I'm going to drag an instance of operator down below. And let's right click here at the top, and we're gonna select group. And remember group is gonna add this instrument rack in the header here. And if we open the whole rack, we can see our macros, we can see our instance of operator, and we can see this area here, where we can drop an instrument or sample. The default state of operator is, (electronic synth melody) this kind of sign. And remember only the one…
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