by djnarrative | 20 Dec, 2012 | The Reckorder Project
Today i took some time out to learn the pad Kontrol & finger drumming techniques. As mentioned in a previous post i use 128's in drum rack, but i wanted to somehow switch to a new template and create / save custom kits, instead of building them up each time. After a lot of reading and trial and error i've come up with a mixture of the two and also found some awesome finger drumming tutorials which I'll post in the next blog. The pad Kontrol is pretty straightforward with a nice response on the pads, and the creator of the aforementioned Lpc series, Stray, has put up a nice overview tutorial here, which also highlights a real nice method for creating custom kits. And another here which has a cool way of assigning the rotary controls. Til now ive just used scene one, which is automatically set to whatever the drum rack square is focus on. But i wanted to merge the method Stray uses in the 1st video with my existing Ill Gates 128's method. After a while I found that i have to forgo using scene one to automap to ableton's drum rack square as you have to select pad kontrol as a surface for this, and for some reason it sends out strange notes as a result. So I decided to map each of the 128 drum rack pads from bottom to top to scene 1 to 8 (C-1 to G9) To achieve my previous setup of using my 128s , Scene 9 is mapped to the default drum rack position which allows me to use...
