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CHAPTER 23. LIVE INSTRUMENT REFERENCE 424
 Velocity Sensitivity  this Macro adjusts the dynamic range of the drumkit. As you turn
up this control, the kit will play louder at high velocity and softer at low velocities.
In the stereo presets, the additional Macros control tuning and decay times for the individual
drums in the kit. In the multimic presets, they control the ambience and room characteristics
of the return chains in the Drum Rack.
From the Drum Rack's Pad View, you can easily replace individual instruments within the kit.
For example, to replace a snare drum with one from another kit, use the Browser to navigate
to the folder of the desired kit's snare presets. Then drag the entire folder to the Drum
Rack's pad view. This will replace all of the currently loaded snare components, leaving all
other pads alone. Because Ableton's drum collections share common note mappings, this
works when swapping between any instruments in the Session Drums or Drum Machines
libraries.
You can also easily replace single instrument components via Live's hot-swap functionality.
To exchange only a single tom, for example, click on its pad's Hot-Swap button. Live will
automatically list all matching presets in the Browser, allowing you to chose another tom. Of
course, if you would like to replace the tom with another kind of instrument, you can simply
navigate to another folder and make your selection there.
Session Drums also includes a comprehensive collection of Live Clips, which are installed to
your Library. Loading a Live Clip to an empty MIDI track loads a combination of MIDI notes,
a drum kit and custom effects that you can use as a starting point for your own creative work.