About:

Designed as a comprehensive tool to form the basis of percussive sound design, Epic Drum Racks Vol. 1 is a
carefully curated and programmed sample-based library containing 4 general sound categories with 16 drum
cells each, totaling 64 instrument racks, over 400 kits and nearly 9,000 high quality samples; all housed within a
single Ableton Live Drum Rack and assigned to global macro controls. EDR Vol. 1 focuses on the electronic,
whereas Vol. 2 will focus on the acoustic.
How to install:
Open the "EDR Vol. 1 Project" folder and double-click on the "EDR Vol. 1.als" file to open the project. Once
you've done so, save the Drum Rack to your Drum Rack folder located in your Live library. You must have
Ableton Live version 8.3.4, or higher installed.
How to use:
To begin, simply turn the selector knob (slowly) to scroll through up to 128 fully assembled kits. Each of the 4
bank categories are organized into 16 Drum Rack cells, totaling 64 different instrument racks.

Our sounds begin on the first cell of the lowest row of the Drum Rack, which corresponds to MIDI note number 0.
This is because, with the planned release of EDR Vol. 2 (see bottom of the page), we will eventually be filling up
all 128 cells within the Drum Rack. Should your MIDI or button controller be out the Drum Rack's range, simply
drop the Pitch MIDI effect within Live's MIDI effect folder in front of the Drum Rack and adjust until your lowest
pad or button is triggering the first Drum Rack cell. Hint: Most pad controllers default to note number 36, so you'll
most likely need to adjust to -36, which would equal 0.
Each of the 4 instrument categories are organized as kits (as you scroll through globally, all other sounds are
instrumentally matched). Wherever possible, samples with the longest sustain time available were chosen, so
you may want to use Sampler's envelopes to shape the sound to your liking. The Sampler's parameters effect all
of the samples contained within it. Each kit is true to the instruments it's sampling; if there is no sound in a kit, it
means that that particular instrument doesn't contain a sound in that category (this rarely occurs, however).
In addition to the selector, tune and the LFO pitch controls, the remaining macros are assigned to the FM
(Frequency Modulation) parameters. (FM is a great way to get some additional grit and texture out of samplebased material).
You can scroll through individual sounds or macro parameters, independent of the global knobs, by rightclicking on the instrument rack's knob and selecting "Unmap from (X)". To re-map back to the macro knob, click
"map mode" on the master drum rack, click the corresponding macro knob on the instrument rack, then click the
master drum rack's macro knob. Finally, click "map mode" once again to exit.
You can rearrange, duplicate, delete or drag in new cells from the library to create your preferred configuration.
Rearrange by dragging a cell onto another cell to swap places. To duplicate, click and hold the alt/ option key,
then drag to your desired location (you can also simply drag an existing cell's instrument rack into another cell).
Each instrument rack can be found in it's corresponding library folder.
You also have the ability to nest an instrument rack within a pre-existing one to create drum layers contained
within a single cell. This is a great technique for workflow that allows you to keep a tidy view and avoid hassles
with MIDI assigning multiple cells to a single pad. To do so, simply copy the desired instrument rack and paste it
into another's chain selector. You may also drag in from the instrument rack library.
That's it. Have fun.
Love,
B
---------------------------------------------Instrument naming convention*:
BD= Bass drum
SD= Snare drum
HT= High tom
MT= Mid tom
LT= Low tom
CP= Clap
RS= Rimshot
CB= Cowbell
CH= Closed hat
OH= Open hat
RC= Ride Cymbal
CC= Crash Cymbal
M(X)= Misc.
*These names are relative to the kit being used and are often simply a rough approximation.
Kits:
1.) Roland Drum Machines: 100 kits

0-25: TR-808
26-41: TR-909
42-51: TR-606
52-57: TR-626
58-61: TR-707
62-63:TR-727
64-67: TR-505
68-75: TR-55
76-87: CR-78
88-95: System 100
96-127: Digital (R5, R8, D-10, MT32)
2.) Classic Drum Machines and Drum Synths: 109 kits
1-5: Akai (MPC300, XE8, XR10)
6-7: Alesis (HR-16, HR-16 B)
8: Bohm DDM
9-14: Boss (DR-202 A, DR-202 E, DR 220, DR-550, DR-550 MKII)
15-16: Casio RZ-1
17-18: Cheetah (MD16, Specdrum)
19: Cwejman S1
20: Daytone Drumsynth
21: DSI Evolver
22: Electro Harmonix DRM
23-28: EMU (E Drum, Drumulator, SP12, SP1200)
29-31: Fairlight (CMI2X, CMI3)
32: Hammond Autovari 64
33: Jomox M-Base 01
34-42: Kawai (ACR-20, R-50, R-50E, R100, XD5)
43-58: Korg (DDD-1, DDD-5, DDM110, DDM220, DSM1, EMX-1, ER-1, KPR-77, KR-55, Minipops, MS-20,
Prowave, SR-120, Wavestation)
60-63: Linn (Linn 9000, Linndrum, LM-1, LM-2)
64: Maestro Rhythm King
65-66: MFB (MFB 512, MFB 552)
67: MXR-185
68-70: Oberheim (DMX, DX)
71: Pearl Syncussion
72-78: Roland (Juno 6, Rhythm Ace, PB300, DDR-30) Yes, I fucked up.
77-78: Sakata (DPM48)
79-81: Sequential Circuits (Studio 440, Drumtracks, TOM)
82-83: Simmons (SDS5, SDS8)
84: Sonic Charge Microtonic
85: Soundmaster STIX-305
86: Suzuki RPM-40
87: Synthe RDS
88-89: Synsonics Pro
90-91: Vermona (DRM-1, DRM-2)
92-93: Visco Space Drum
94-95: Wurlitzer Swing Rhythm
96-127: Yamaha (DD-10, MR-10, RX-5, RX-7, RX-11, RX-15, RX-17, RX-21, RX-21L, RY-30, TX16, TX16W)
3.) Elektron Machinedrum SPS-UW+ MK II: 92 kits
0-13: Custom kits
14-21: Preset kits
22-28: PI machine kits
29-44: EFM machine kits
45-52: E12 machine kits
53: GND machine kits
54-83: TRX machine kits

84-127: Randomized UW kits

4.) Chip/ Circuit bent/ Toy: 128 kits
0-26: NES/ Gameboy (MIDINES, LSDJ, Nanoloop)
27-38: Commodore 64/ SID
39- 45: Atari/ POKEY
46-48: Misc. Chip/ Arcade
49-53: Speech/ Phoneme (SPO256, Atari Talks, Handysound)
54-85: Circuit Bent Drum Machines (TR-808/ 707/ 505, Alesis HR-16, Boss DR-550, Casio RapMan/ RZ-1/VL-1,
Korg MR16, Yamaha RX-7/ DD-5/ DD-6, Beat Sound analog drum, Bongon Electric Bongos, Blippo Box, Chicco,
Coron DS-7, Drumrock, Elc toy, Random 1, Random 2)
86-100: Circuit Bent Keyboards (Casio SK-1/ SK-5/ SA-1/ SA-40/ SA-60, Yamaha VSS-200/ PSS-470, DSI
keyboard, Purple toy keyboard)
101-121: Circuit Bent Speech (Early Words, Mighty Borg Teddybear, Speak & Spell, Speak & Math, Talking
Teacher, Talking Computer, Phonics)
122-127: Lo-Fi Devices/ Toys (Astroblaster, Junior piano, Music box, Shortwave radio)
EDR Vol. 2 (soon come):
5.) Sound Designed/ Hybrid/ Processed
6.) Breaks/ Sample-Based
7.) Acoustic/ Multi-Sampled
8.) Ethnic/ Percussion/ Found Sound
Bonus rack: Sound Effects/ Lick Shots
---------------------------------------------Created with the aid of Intelligentsia Black Cat espresso (black), Bulleit rye whiskey (rocks), Adderall (10 MG)
American Spirits (orange ones) and water (tap). No rights reserved. Go ham.