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Ableton Live 8 and Suite 8: Create, Produce, Perform 18 Designed in collaboration with Chocolate Audio, Session Drums is a 28-GB sample library of multisampled acoustic drums with an included complement of Live Clips. Amidst this vast content are a variety of drums, sticks, and mallets as stereo kits (fully mixed for production) and multimic kits (for custom mixing). The multimic presets have been provided so that you can adjust and mix mic positions and levels as you wish. The idea here is to recreate a real live studio session (hence the name) with maximum flexibility. The quality and dynamics are evident in this well-produced drum library. Multivelocity ranges and cross-fade zones for each sound are an integral part of the Session Drum library, along with its sample switching programming approach that avoids obvious repeating samples. Cross-fade zones here are useful for disguising transitions between different samples and sample layers so that alternate samples or in our example drum samples of different velocities can be used to help create realism. Most of the Session Drum kits can be loaded either as a stereo “full version” (24 bit) or as a “lite version” LE (16 bit). They can be located in the Instruments>Drum Rack>Kit folder. To load a Session Drums preset, drag it from the Device Browser into an empty MIDI track, just like you would do with any other device. You will find the Multimic presets sorted into their own folder. For quick access to Session Drums’ kits and clips, use Help View. Same as with other various folders in the Library, click on the associated link to browse for these items. 10 Latin Percussion Figure 1.25 Latin Percussion.
Suite 8 Created and produced by e-instruments, Latin Percussion is a 24-bit/48-kHz 1-GB multisampled acoustic percussion sample library featuring 107 Latin Percussion instruments. This library is fully integrated as Drum Rack presets included in Suite 8 or for separate purchase for the Live 8 users. The concept behind Latin Percussion is to provide you with real-world percussion instruments that cover the various playing techniques and articulations, and exploit the various timbres native to the instruments, i.e., slaps, mute, flams, heel, shake, and more. The library is programmed as individual instruments and as kits that are compatible with the most common drum pad controllers. In addition, Latin Percussion comes with clips and grooves featuring authentic playing patterns and rhythmic phrases located in the Live 8 Library. Note that these clips go far beyond the normal MIDI clip, in that they have been programmed to really show off the true characteristics of these high-quality samples and presets in the Latin Percussion Library. To load up a preset, simply drag a Latin Percussion Set or specific clips contained within the Set into your Set. Latin Percussion instruments are located under Drum Racks in the Device Browser. There you will find a variety of instrument presets and kits. The provided clips and a selection of grooves are located in the Library within the Clips and Grooves folders. More specific clips and grooves (instrument/style/genre specific) are located within each kit’s Set within the Latin Percussion preset folder. All clips and grooves are loaded as expected. For quick access to Latin Percussion kits and clips, use Help View. Same as for other various folders in the Library, click on the associated link to browse for these items. Figure 1.26 Latin Percussion: Sets located in the Library Clips Folder. 11 Zero-G, Cycling ’74, Sound Objects Lite, Designer Drums Suite 8 contains a very strong library of samples and sounds, which are ready to load and play as Construction Kits, Rack Device presets, and as individual 19
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