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Adding Drum Samples Using Studio One

This arrived in my inbox today and I thought it would be worth sharing with anyone else who uses Studio One.

There are a few different ways to go about sampling drums in SO, but this is a simple and concise way using SOs' native Impact sampler and native Gate plugin as a trigger.

The same principle would apply to any DAW platform. YMMV.

Enjoy.

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