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Simpler

Sampler is Ableton’s deepest sample instrument. Where Simpler plays one sample, Sampler can hold hundreds, spread across the keyboard and across velocity layers.

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Sampler

Sampler is Ableton’s deepest sample instrument. Where Simpler plays one sample, Sampler can hold hundreds, spread across the keyboard and across velocity layers.

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Impulse

Impulse is Ableton’s original drum sampler and has been a fixture of Live for many years. It holds eight samples, one per slot, mapped across a single octave from C3 upwards.

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Drum Sampler

Drum Sampler is Ableton’s newest sampler, added to Live in version 12.1. It’s built for one job: playing back single hits, such as kicks, snares, hats and percussion, inside a Drum Rack.

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Analog

Analog is a virtual analogue synthesiser built with Applied Acoustics Systems. It doesn’t copy one vintage machine. Instead it combines the best-loved features of classic hardware into a single modern instrument.

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Operator

Operator is Ableton’s first and most fundamental synthesiser. Robert Henke created it in 2004, and it has stayed a core instrument ever since. Plain as it looks, it’s a very powerful tool. It’s built around four oscillators and a set of algorithms that decide how they connect.

Simpler

Sampler

Impulse

Drum Sampler

Analog

Operator

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