
250 Instrument, Drum and Effect Racks
18.6.1 Pad View
Pad View.
The Pad View is unique to Drum Racks and offers an easy way to map and manipulate samples
and devices. Each pad represents one of the 128 available MIDI notes. The pad overview to the
left shifts the set of visible pads up or down in groups of 16, either by dragging the view selec-
tor to a new area or by using your computer keyboard’s up and down arrow keys. Use the [ALT]
(PC) / [CMD](Mac) modifier to shift the view by single rows instead.
Almost any object from Live’s browser — samples, effects, instruments and presets — can be
dragged onto a pad, mapping automatically to the pad’s note and creating or reconfiguring
internal chains and devices as necessary. Dropping a sample onto an empty pad, for example,
creates a new chain containing a Simpler, with the dropped sample ready to play from the pad’s
note. If you then drag an audio effect to the same pad, it is placed downstream from the Simpler
in the same chain. To replace the Simpler, simply drop another sample onto the same pad — any
downstream audio effects or upstream MIDI effects will be left intact and only the Simpler and
sample will be replaced.
In addition to dragging objects from the browser, pads can also be filled quickly via Hot-Swap.
If you’re in Hot-Swap mode, pressing the [D] key will toggle the Hot-Swap target between the
Drum Rack itself and the last selected pad.
If a multi-selection of samples is dropped onto a pad, new Simplers and chains will be mapped
upwards chromatically from this pad, replacing any other samples that may have already been
assigned to the pads in question (but, as before, leaving any effects devices alone). [ALT](PC) /
[CMD](Mac)-dragging a multi-selection layers all of the samples to a single pad, by creating a
nested Instrument Rack.
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