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38 ARTURIA – DrumBrute – USER’S MANUAL

• Try the same process with Step Repeat values of 3 and 4 on other steps to hear

the difference between them.

You will quickly see how easy it is to create exciting and innovative patterns using the

Step Repeat feature!

5.2.6 Shift timing

Sometimes the secret to a killer groove is when one or more instruments are landing

consistently behind the beat. Alternately, if one of the instruments is always a bit ahead

of the beat it can increase the sense of urgency in the music.

DrumBrute allows you to shift the timing of any step forward or backward by up to 50%

of the pattern’s timing value. It’s easy to do:

• Create a pattern with a kick and snare, and add 1/8

notes on the Closed Hat.

Let the pattern loop.

• Enter Step mode and select the closed hat (press Shift + Closed Hat).

• Press and hold one of the lit Step buttons.

• While holding the Step button, turn the Swing encoder counter-clockwise. The

display will begin to show negative numbers from -1 to -50. The selected event is

being shifted so it will play slightly earlier in the pattern, as you will hear the next

time the pattern loops.

• Repeat the process using a different event, only this time turn the encoder

clockwise. The display will show positive numbers from 1 to 50, which means the

selected event is being shifted to play slightly later in the pattern, as you will hear

the next time the pattern loops.

Once you have the groove sounding exactly right, remember to save the pattern (hold

Shift and press the Ptrn button).

5.2.7 Copy a Drum Track

Once you have the timing and dynamics exactly right for a certain instrument you might

want to use that track in another pattern, or maybe even double that track on another

instrument within the same pattern. The following procedures will save you the time it

would take to recreate the part somewhere else.

5.2.7.1 Within a pattern

Let’s say you’d like to copy the Closed Hat track to the Tambourine track. This is a bit

trickier than normal, because you’ll be copying from a single instrument to a shared

instrument channel. But even this process is so easy that you’ll have no trouble with

copying between single-channel instruments.

Select a pattern with an interesting Closed Hat part and then follow these steps:

If the time division of the target pattern is different from the source pattern then

they will not sound the same at first. You may want to change the time division of

the target pattern until it matches the source pattern. See section 5.1.2 for

information.