All drum racks stuck at 1/16?

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Ok, I am new to this, and ripping my hair out. When playing midi instruments, if I zoom in on the sample display/note editor, the note sizes (as indicated by the numbers in the bottom right corner of the note editor) go from 1/16 to 1/32 to 1/64 etc. But with the drum rack, and instrument rack, it is stuck at 1/16. I can't find how to change this anywhere! Please help!!
 
when you are looking at the MIDI notes on your Drumrack track right-click in the note area and you will see options to change the grid.
 
JohnMur said:
when you are looking at the MIDI notes on your Drumrack track right-click in the note area and you will see options to change the grid.
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This view also depends on if the scale changes based on Zoom in zoom out. Sometimes I want the scale to change if I zoom in, sometimes I don't. But as mentioned, you can change it with a right click.
 
I don't really know about that software, but one thing to note:

If you're talking about the duration of the notes ("note sizes"), drum sounds typically don't have a duration in any meangingful sense. A snare hit is a snare hit, unlike (say) a trumpet note.
 
sjjohnston said:
I don't really know about that software, but one thing to note:

If you're talking about the duration of the notes ("note sizes"), drum sounds typically don't have a duration in any meangingful sense. A snare hit is a snare hit, unlike (say) a trumpet note.
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Not totally true. A cymbal can have duration, a brush snare can have a note duration as well. There are effects that use duration, castanet, etc. you get the idea . So it is not only used for "pure" drum sounds.
 
DM60 said:
Not totally true. A cymbal can have duration, a brush snare can have a note duration as well. There are effects that use duration, castanet, etc. you get the idea . So it is not only used for "pure" drum sounds.
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Hence the word "typically."

I don't think I've ever seen a drum synth/machine that applied note duration to a cymbal, though you could. Normally, you use an articulation to stop a cymbal's ring (like the hi-hat pedal). Using the note duration is the exception (with some machines, a nonexistent exception), rather than the rule.

For that matter, so long as the pedal is depressed, piano note durations don't do anything either (typically in a synth ... and on a real piano).
 
"right cliock" then narrow, or whatever. if youre recording, go to edit and change quantization. i dont ythink im understanding your question though.
 
yeah plus drum rack and instrument rack have the envolopes "ADSR" release would be ytour bff
 
For Ableton, your best bet is to go to youtube and look at a lot of the basic videos, use the help section that comes with it. For basic question like these, it really is in your best interest to go through the tutorial.
 
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