That will load up the sample into a device called Simpler. You can see the sample placed in the bottom left corner of the screen. Find a „kick.wav” file and drag it onto the bottom of the screen like this: Now make sure you have the first track selected and go to our free samples folder. Just click on their names and press backspace or delete. In this tutorial we’re going to be using only MIDI tracks, so you can go ahead and delete the Audio tracks straight away. Now you’ll see 4 tracks: 2 MIDI tracks and 2 Audio tracks.
See this article for the top 5 elements of every trap beat. Here you can find a tutorial of me making a beat in Session view, but for this tutorial, we’re going to switch to the second view called Arrangement view by pressing the Tab key on your keyboard. Here’s what Ableton looks like when you open it up for the first time. Then just open up Ableton and follow my steps. You can also check out the Trap Production Pack with 190+ Samples, MIDIs, Instruments and Scales. It’s in out Free Downloads Page under the name „Start in Ableton: Trap Drum Beat”. Download our FREE SAMPLE Packįirst of all, grab our free sample pack with sounds that we’re going to be using. Here’s the beat that we’re going to be making: This is going to be for people starting out or new to the genre.
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Today I’m going to show you how to make very simple trap drum patterns.