The level of eloquence combined with perfect depth of explanation is absolute fucking gold. Such a rarity and for me personally, priceless. That gift to place yourself in a noob's mindset to provide just the perfect amount of information, is practically unique. Thank you!

I wish I had found your channel when I started a year ago. Your explanations of connections is valuable. Thank you and happy new year.

Thanks Ed! Easy to follow and worked perfectly.

This tutorial was absolutely a mind-bending GAME CHANGER for me!!! 5 STARS> and obviously a new subscriber!! THANK-YOU!!!

What a solution for my Behringer RD-8. Gonna try this when I get home. Thanks for the tutorial. Respect!

Thank you mate - great work again!

Mate you're pumping them out despite all the difficulties you're facing!! Respect!! ORZ

Right on!!! Many thanks!

Thanks so much for this video , I have spent all week trying to figure this out. Downloaded your drum rack, followed the steps and everything working as I wanted.

Brilliant!

This also works with the TR-8S via USB. First, add the TR-8S as an aggregate device using the Audio Midi Setup tool in MacOS. Windows users will need to download the ASIO4ALL driver to create the aggregate device. Follow all of Ed's instructions until you reach the external instrument setup. Set midi output to TR-8S and midi channel to 10. Assign each pad sequentially starting with channel 5 and ending on channel 15. Volume, tune, decay, and ctrl controls work for each track. Ensure that you have Ableton's midi output control for the device set to track and sync, and ensure that the TRACK AND SYNC BUTTONS FOR MIDI IN are disabled, otherwise, your TR-8S will glitch out and crash (especially if you're manipulating the onboard controls). Same rules apply from Ed's video. Do not use the onboard sequencer. Thanks for your guidance on this, Ed. It's exactly what I needed to get started.

Thanks!! Super!!

Tks for video and shared kit on your site! I was trying to con figure the same things with drumbrute but i had a frustrating time with “play always C3 note” on I|O section of drumrack! Now I’ve downloaded your kit and it confirms that you have changed all Receive-play match. Tks tks tks!!!

Thank you so much for this!

Really helpful video mate

your channel is gold! instant abo

Thanks and respect

Thx man!!

Great vid, super helpful - I just picked up a TR-8S after seeing your utilization of the Push 2 and have been blown away with how well these two pair. Thanks for sharing the TR-8 Rack - it's terrific..

Great

i wish i discovered this video earlier youve been solving all my questions

Good video mate - and thank you for the drum rack.

Great man.. Suscribed... Great discovery-

you are the man thank you so much good tutorial

Absolute legend cheers, this has opened up a whole new level of recording for me with the Roland mc707 and tr8 👍

thanks for this.

Will need some time for new interface for this, but def suscribed and saved the video. Very well explained, and as many others said, this is gold :)

Thx for sharing!

Super useful, thanks for this device man! Can hookup my TR-08 and TR-09 boutiques with this too!

This was the exact thing I was looking to solve! I'm using the TR-8S but, again, this was the bit i needed! Thanks!

Many thanks for this video! Struggling to get this working with my TR-8S running through an Allen & Heath QU24 (audio interface). So close to the setup I'd really like!

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This is an excellent demo Ed and answers a lot of questions that I have had re: Push 2 and the TR8. Quick question though: any ideas how I could I integrate this with my MX-1?

Cool, I do the same thing with the TR-8S! I overcomplicated my setup a bit by looping the TR-8S MIDI through Live and turning off local control. This allowed me to do some stuff where I can sequence on either the Push or the TR-8S depending on my mood, and also record knob movements as automation. (The annoying bit is that I need a secondary "hardware" track permanently set to Monitor In, dedicated to keeping the TR-8S inputs flowing even when the Push is "attached" to a different device. Otherwise the MIDI CC doesn't flow. Oh, and I also had to do some wacky stuff to make sure that the notes coming out of the TR got changed to the notes of my drum rack, since I use the xpresspads-style symmetric note layout for finger drumming. All in all though, they both work really well together, and I love not having to pick out drum samples!

I gotta figure out how to do this with my launchkeys 49 and Logic X. I can't spend more money on all this cool geeeeeeaaar right now. Nice explainer, man.

This video ism pure gold man! thanks a lot! Why not using a normal usb cable with the tr-8 for sending midi?

Very cool and so well explained! I’ve never been able to do anything similar with the TR8S. Is it the same process please?

Excellent video, thanks! The TR-8 is limited to only being able to save 16 patterns of up to 32 steps.....so I'd been wondering if I could use the novation circuit tracks or model:samples as a controller/sequencer for it as they can save way more patterns. Great!

Thanks Ed for this. I recently discovered your channel, and you have been a huge help. How would I use this for sidechaining? I make my sub bass using the model D, but I don't see a way to side chain the model D to just the bass drum. It wants to side chain to all of the TR8-s audio. Any way to separate out the individual audio? Hope this question makes sense. BTW, Equanimity is beautiful.

Thanks ed, great video. Really appreciate the clear explanation. I m gonna have to think about if this setup is useful to me. Because i really like using the sequencer on the tr-8 itself but indeed it needs a lot of tending to. I was also daydreaming about how useful it would be to use tr-8 as a midi controller for samples from ableton drum rack. Or maybe even both so sequencing on push 2 using samples from ableton and using tr-8 faders and controls! Alright i m getting ahead of myself.

Thank you so much for this informative video! I have saved up to get this exact setup except TR8S instead of TR8. Would this setup work for the TR8S as well? Also could you please recommend what would be a reasonable audio interface for connecting these two to my Ableton Live?

Makes me want to buy a Tr8........ Dam.

💯💯💯💯💯

This is a really interesting use of the Push 2 for sequencing. I'm curious if you now own the TR8s? That's the unit I just purchased and I'm also running it with Ableton and Push 2. The TR8s has the A through H scene selectors which seem to minmic what you have set up in the Push. Just curious if you've had your hands on a TR8s and if so would you change your approach because of it?

Thanks for the video, Ed ! Does it have to be a specific midi notes in oder for the tr8 to recognize and trigger into their own follwing instruments kick snare hat etc. ?

This is super helpful - I'm trying to find out if you can program the tr8 to start and stop with either CC or midi from Ableton 11 -- do you know if this is possible? (ie. I'm running tracks for live, and want the TR8 sequence to not only clock with the tempo in ableton, but would like for it to start playing the sequence when a scene is launched, and stop when specified as well)

Thanks for the Video. Is any way to make it with USD cable and the new Software (Edit) for control de TR8-S ?

thanks for the video. any ideas for adding individual Ableton FX (not the TR-8's) to the pads? when using the rack, which is great btw, as all audio comes in via the BD, only track effects will work. but say I wanted a delay on the snare only?

hi, it's fascinating, your music can be heard very well, by the way if I wanted to connect my tr-8s and my push having an apogee duet, how could I configure it in the same way as you, since my duet doesn´t have for midi cable only usb, please and thank you!! (:

i have neither of these things but i just watched the whole thing

@mredollo I use push 2 and drum racks. So Does this method really turn the Tr8 into a midi device for faders and an effects unit? So the sounds within the the Tr-8 aren't used? Could you just do what you are doing with Push 2? Although it's not as hands on and convenient with all the faders.

Hello, Cool. Where do you get that knobs for the push 2? Thanks

Cool, thanks , does this rack work with the trs 8 too ?

Hi, great video.. i have one question. Could you simply connect the tr8 via usb to the computer and use midi and audio over Usb?

Thank you so much! Perhaps a really dumb question, but how do you EQ/mix each instrument (sample) later? Everything sounds so good together, but I'm curious if you process each sample as an independent track. With only one audio cable going into your audio interface? Again thanks for all your videos and hard work !!!

Genious!!! could you send midi from ableton to each channel of the TR8 and have the TR8 send audio to the ableton on individual channels for later recording and editing?

Thanks for sharing this. What is the reason you connected the TR-8 with regular MIDI, why didn't you use USB for both MIDI and audio?

This is really straight forward, however I want to do this with a TR909. Is it basically the same?

Curious to know about the colored knobs on your push ...are they still touch sensitive?

I interested is it big difference between ableton native drum rack 808 and roland tr 808 sounds. What benefit to buy roland's hardware except cpu saving

Nice! any chance that this could work with tr09?

Is there any way to switch between this and the traktor/push2 interface on the fly? Or would you recommend an additional push2 on a secondary laptop?

Hey dude, thanks for this amazing help! I'm using the tr8s and everything works perfectly but when I want to playback my recordings from the tr8s the volume depends to the actual setting of the faders on the tr8s. SO when I remove for example the tr8s and want to play it back there is no sound at all on the track. Do you have any advice? cheers :)

With this push2 set up, could you bring a song mode to the tr8s?

is connecting the mc 707 the same principle connecting it to the Ableton live?

Hello! Thanks for the release! A very useful thing. But I had a problem. I have TR-8, Ableton Live 10, Push 2 and Scarlett 18i8 (1st generation). I downloaded your "tr-8 drum rack" and followed the instructions in this video, but since I'm new to Ableton Live and don't know much English, I might be missing something. The fact is that when I press the Start button on Push, the TR-8 does not start. Also effects (Deley, Reverb, Scutter) do not work on TR-8. Encoders: tune, decay, comp, snappy and attak are working properly. Can you help me figure it out?

If you was to record in live would it record all the tweaks on the effects?

You can also just connect the TR-8 over USB, and have all your drum elements as seperate channels in Ableton.

@mredrollo I have a little issue here...when I use the compressor on the rack I get a very disturbing white noise as well as when everything is low I get it when I turn the volume up from the speakers...Do you have the same problem???????

Can I use this rack with a TR8-S too? Is there something I need to keep in mind?

hey there i was wondering if anyone could help i followed the video to the letter with my tr8-s and ableton bit when i try to set the audio from the tr8 the sound comes throw dubbled up. i am using a a scarlet 2i4 sound card and the tr8 is plugged into imputs 1 and 2. any help would be greatly appreciated.

I hate that the midi in f the TR-8 for the individual hits don't line up with the default pads of the drumkit (C-1, C#-1, etc). I use bitwig with the push, so I'm mostly curious how you got the pad aligned with the right sound of the TR-8? Some help would be greatly appreciated!

If my Audio Interface does not have MIDI. Can I just buy MIDI to USB and then follow the exact same steps in order to achieve end result?

hey, exactly what i was looking for but your adg doesnt work, idk maybe i have live 9 thats why, can you give me an idea on how to set it up manually, i dont have a midi out of my interface its connected via usb, tr8 i mean, I have it running via a normal midi channel sending midi to tr8, but your way is much more organized. thanks anyway, ill keep trying!

Im not quite getting it.why would I like to control the TR8 from an other device, when you still need to change reverb and delay on the TR8? And why would I only use a mono strip to send it to the interface? Guess I missed the core problem🤦🏼‍♂️

Hello I downloaded the drumrack but I am using Tr8-s.. I have no idea to do this... and It didnt show me drumrack... when I opened it...

Great video! Just subscribed. Any ideas to play with these 2 dawless?

Did I miss how you map the Push pad (note #) to a TR-8 instrument.

Does anyone else get massively stuck with what the MIDI port settings in Ableton are supposed to be!?!

I did exactly like you but nothing's happen when i press the pads of the drum rack, i see the light on of the midi out of my audio interface, and when i play on the tr8 the sound is going out of my speakers. I tryed also without the USB cable, but i can't synchronise my tr8 with ableton, do you have an issue for that mate, thank's in advance!

Hello, Can u help me! Midi arrives but the sound of tr8 no.

Are you available for a consultation?

I follow all the steps and didn’t work for me. Help

Do you give private lessons

This only works if I set my midi to to the tr8s

Great video thanks for that ! I also use Push2...say 30 % swing in the push, do you use it mostly for your tracks? Or do you rather use a certain one from the groove pool which is comparable to it ? ...or is it most sensible to use the swing of Push2?

Someone doesn't understand what a "macro" is...

Just what I’ve been looking for 🪄 Magic Wonder if this is possible with MPC one?

Can this drum rack work for Ableton 11?