There’s popular video on Youtube “The Last Drum Rack You’ll Ever Have To Make” by Chris Petti, Ableton Live Certified Trainer. In the video he shows a technique in Ableton Live using Macros and Sampler, to group drum samples and easily go through them with the Macro knobs, instead of searching via the Browser.

I made a custom version inspired by this video. It’s an empty Drum Rack preset that you can download for free (link below). You can then populate the preset with the samples of your library, save it again, and it will be ready to use any time in your projects. The difference with his version is that I used Simpler instead of Sampler, which is only available in Ableton Live Suite edition. This preset should work with all editions of Ableton Live 11.

This Drum Rack is based on 8 drum pads. Each pad has 50 empty Simpler devices. You select each Simpler and drag and drop your samples there. Everything is already mapped to be used with the Macros. The Macros select the samples and volumes of the pads, plus I added additional settings like a Hi-Hat Doubler, an Offset and a control of the Velocity range of all pads. The preset doesn’t have any audio effects, but has four Return chains that you can route to the same Drum Rack or to the Returns in your project.

Watch the following video where I explained the Drum Rack in more details and download it for free with the link below.

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