Ableton/Instrument/Drum Rack/How To/Map Sample Minutes to Octaves

• How to map sample minutes and seconds to octaves

  • This is a technique to map samples from a longer recording onto drum clips.
  • Assumption - every clip has a four digit number that identifies MMSS of the clip
    • The first M determines the octave of the drum rack mapping
    • The second M determines the "quadrant" of the octave mapping, given 12 semitones, if M is 3, that would be first quadrant, if second M is 4, that would be 2nd quadrant, etc
    • if there's not room, squeeze into octave, trying to honor halfs instead of quarters, or just trying to squeeze all into octave
    • #Example
      • Clip - 0813🎷Biddilyip
        • first M is 0 so this should be in octave 0
        • 2nd M is 8 so this should be in quadrant 4 of octave 0, meaning G#, A, A#, B
      • Clip - 2430🎷distort-wish
        • 1st M is 2 so this should be in octave 2
        • 2nd M is 4 so this should be in quadrant 2, meaning roughly E, F, F#, G