Ableton Live: Impulse Tutorial
Good day and welcome to Ableton Live REsource this tutorial will break down the basics of using the impulse instrument module in your Ableton music projects. Tips and tricks on how to set it up, get sound from it, load it up with custom samples and more.
Start up Ableton and load Impulse into a MIDI slot. Now I like to think of Impulse as an 8 channel sample player. If you look at the top of the Impulse window you will see 8 squares, these are where you can stick in any samples you would like and trigger them with either a MIDI keyboard, MIDI pads such as
Korg PadKontrol
or
M-Audio Trigger Finger
, or even just use your regular old computer keyboard (keys ASDFGHJK) although without velocity sensitivity. Make sure to arm whatever track you put Impulse into by pressing that tracks record button, this allows you to input MIDI to that channel.
Now you can go ahead and record clips with impulse using any of the included acoustic or electric kits supplied with Ableton Live, but you can also add your own custom samples very easily into each slot in Impulse. All you have to do is browse to whereve you store samples on your computer and simply drag and drop them right into whichever of the 8 Impulse sample slots you like. This allows you to build your own custom drum kits or really any kind of sample you would ever want for easy triggering in Ableton. Here's a free sample pack I made up real quick that you can experiment with if you don't already have any samples of your own.
SAMPLE PACK right click it and "Save Target/Link as..." to your computer. It's a Zip file so you'll have to unzip the folder to use the samples. Try 7-zip from download.com if you don't have a Zip utility as it's free.
Download the samples, browse to them on your computer and then drag and drop them directly into Impulse. Of course you could also do this with Simpler or Sampler too, but Impulse lets you load more than one sample at a time which is good for building complete kits of samples. After you have your kit set up you can tweak each individual sample with the controls, such as volume, Pan, Transpose, filter, time stretch, ect.. Whne you finally get it all set up how you like click the little disk icon in the top left of Impulse and you can save your custom kit in Ableton Live's device browser for esay recall anytime.
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Start up Ableton and load Impulse into a MIDI slot. Now I like to think of Impulse as an 8 channel sample player. If you look at the top of the Impulse window you will see 8 squares, these are where you can stick in any samples you would like and trigger them with either a MIDI keyboard, MIDI pads such as
Korg PadKontrol
M-Audio Trigger Finger
Now you can go ahead and record clips with impulse using any of the included acoustic or electric kits supplied with Ableton Live, but you can also add your own custom samples very easily into each slot in Impulse. All you have to do is browse to whereve you store samples on your computer and simply drag and drop them right into whichever of the 8 Impulse sample slots you like. This allows you to build your own custom drum kits or really any kind of sample you would ever want for easy triggering in Ableton. Here's a free sample pack I made up real quick that you can experiment with if you don't already have any samples of your own.
SAMPLE PACK right click it and "Save Target/Link as..." to your computer. It's a Zip file so you'll have to unzip the folder to use the samples. Try 7-zip from download.com if you don't have a Zip utility as it's free.
Download the samples, browse to them on your computer and then drag and drop them directly into Impulse. Of course you could also do this with Simpler or Sampler too, but Impulse lets you load more than one sample at a time which is good for building complete kits of samples. After you have your kit set up you can tweak each individual sample with the controls, such as volume, Pan, Transpose, filter, time stretch, ect.. Whne you finally get it all set up how you like click the little disk icon in the top left of Impulse and you can save your custom kit in Ableton Live's device browser for esay recall anytime.
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This is an excellent tutorial, looking forward to reading your other posts.
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