Chains appear in the Chain List in the order they were created, but you can reorder them by dragging them up and down in the list.

Push has four such groups ordered from bottom-left to top-right (Q1 to Q4).

The corresponding MIDI keyboard layout is shown at the bottom.

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This month were going to look at the relationship between 64-pad controllers and keyboards and then delve into building your own 64-pad Drum Racks.

Pads on the more modern controllers are velocity sensitive and can send MIDI Channel Pressure (Aftertouch) messages.

Theyre also backlit to show which pads are filled and are sometimes colour-coded to indicate the type of content.

Keyboards dont light up, but they are usually velocity sensitive and many offer Aftertouch.

You select different groups of 16 pads by either click-dragging the View Selector in the Pad Overview to the left of the pads or by using your computer keyboards up and down arrow keys when the Pad Overview has the keyboard focus.

Hold down the CommandControl key to move by one row at a time.) While the correlation between Drum Rack pads and pads on a MIDI drum controller is obvious, it takes a little getting used to with MIDI keyboards.

One trick is to notice that each Drum Rack row starts with either C, E or G and spans one of three keyboard patterns (red, green or blue in screen 1).

Because quadrants comprise four rows, the first note and overall pattern shifts for each quadrant: quadrants one to four start respectively on C1, E2, G3 and C5.

Once you get used to that, reaching for the right note on your keyboard becomes automatic.

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If you dont have a lot of experience with Drum Racks, read on and check out the full rundown on Live Racks in the December 2011 Live column.

But whereas with Instrument Racks you select chains manually or using key and velocity ranges, with Drum Racks each chain receives either a single note or all notes; you use the chains MIDI In Note drop-down menu to select which (All Notes is the top entry).

Chains assigned to a single note also have MIDI Out Note and Choke Group drop-downs.

The MIDI Out Note lets you change the pitch played by the devices in the chain without changing the note that triggers the chain.

Assigning chains to the same Choke Group (there are 16) ensures that triggering a device in the group silences all other chains assigned to that group.

When you drag a Live device to a pad, a chain assigned to the pads note is created to hold the device.

You can drag a Drum Rack pad to a different position in either the 16-pad display or the 128-pad overview section, but what that actually does is change the MIDI In Note setting for all chains that are set to receive that pads note All Notes chains are not affected.

If there are chains assigned to the destination pad, their MIDI In Note is changed to that of the dragged pad ie.

If you hold the CommandControl key while dragging, all the chains will be assigned to the destination pad.

As with Instrument Racks, you can create and edit the contents of Drum Rack chains directly, but you can also simply drag a sample or a Live device from the browser to any pad to create a chain assigned to its note.

By default, Live inserts a Simpler to play samples, but you can specify almost anything Simpler, Sampler, Instrument Rack and so on as the default in your User library Defaults folder.

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