User Manual

34 ARTURIA – DrumBrute – USER’S MANUAL
• The maximum Swing setting is 75%, at which point the 1/8
th
notes sound more
like a 1/16
th
note figure than ‘shuffled’ 1/8
th
notes.
Here’s a graphic showing the minimum and maximum Swing values in musical notation:
5.1.7.1 Current Track button
The Current Track button enables each instrument to have its own Swing setting. After
you press that button, changes to the swing percentage will affect only the current
instrument. Then you can select the other instruments and edit their Swing settings also.
If the current instrument does not have its Current Track button lit and the Swing
encoder is turned, the Swing percentage becomes a “Global edit” for the entire pattern.
Instruments that previously had no Swing value will begin to swing, and instruments
with the Current Track button enabled will have their swing amount increased by the
change in the Global value.
In other words, if the Global value goes from 50 to 52, a Current Track value of 63 will
rise to 65.
Here is some information to remember about how the pattern Swing value and the
Current Track swing values interact:
• The maximum possible swing value is 75, so an instrument’s Current Track swing
value amount will never rise above that.
• The minimum swing value for an individual instrument track cannot be a lower
value than the overall Swing value for the pattern.
The MIDI Control Center can be used to set Swing % values for all instruments and the
pattern as well. See section 10.7.5 for information about these parameters.
5.1.8 Randomness
The Randomness encoder lets you to add an element of unpredictability to your patterns.
The following features will be affected:
• The rhythmic pattern
• The status of note events (Step on/off)
• The velocity of note events (Accent on/off)
To return the entire pattern to the same Swing % you must toggle the Current
Track button off for each instrument.