Ableton/Live/UG/31 Instrument Reference/02 Collision/02 Mallet Section

• 31.2.2 Mallet Section

  • Simulates a mallet striking a surface; the controls set the mallet's physical properties. The Mallet button turns it on.
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  • Volume — output level.
  • Stiffness — soft mallets give fewer highs and a longer, blurrier hit; harder ones a shorter, brighter hit.
  • Noise — impact noise in each strike, like the "chiff" of a felt mallet.
  • Color — noise frequency; higher removes lows. No effect when Noise is 0.
  • Volume, Stiffness and Noise can follow pitch and velocity through the Key and Vel sliders in the MIDI tab.