Find the „Rate” knob and change it to 1/16. As usual extend the Clip in the Arrangement over the whole bar.Īfter that you’re going to have to find „Arpeggiator” in MIDI Effects on the left of the Arrangement.ĭouble click the Arpeggiator and it will show up on the left of the hihat sample.īe default it’ll play 8th notes for us. To do that, just insert a note at the very beginning of the clip and extend it until the end. This time we’re going to insert a C3 note all over the clip. Now drag the „hihat.wav” sample onto the track and as usual create a new MIDI Clip and go to the Clip View. Insert a new MIDI track by clicking in the grey area under our two tracks and selecting „Insert MIDI Track”. Sounds more like drums, doesn’t it? Now we’re going to add a hit to add some groove. Now if you extend the snare over the whole bar it should sound like this: Now insert the Snare sample in the middle of the Clip and extend it by grabbing the red block’s right end. Just as with the kick, repeat the process of adding a new MIDI Clip and going into the Clip View. For this purpose select the second track and drag the „snare.wav” sample onto the bottom. See this video tutorial with making 3 beats in under 30 minutes. If you click at the beginning of the track and press Space, you should hear this basic kick pattern: Now that we have a kick, go back into the Arrangement (Shift+Tab) and extend the clip over the whole bar. C3 will always give us the default pitch of the sound. The reason why we’re inserting C3 is because the higher the note, the higher the pitch of the sound. Now add two C3 notes into the clip by double clicking at the very beginning and at 1.1.4. Now, to make a pattern in the clip click on it and press **Shift+Tab** to go to the Clip View. Select half of the first bar (from 1 to 1.3 on the timeline), click in the upper area of the selection and from the dropdown menu select „Insert MIDI Clip”. Now we’re going to add a blank clip onto our track so that we can make a drum pattern.
As soon as the mouse turns into a magnifying glass, click and drag it down and you’ll zoom in. To do that click the dark grey area above the timeline. Set the Tempoīefore we form a kick pattern let’s set the tempo of our track to 70 BPM - click this box in the upper left corner and type in „70”. Bear in mind that I’m using Ableton 9.5 - on older versions Simpler will look a little bit different.Ĭheck out our MASSIVE preset pack for Trap! 3. 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.
Today I’m going to show you how to make very simple trap drum patterns.