Instruction Manual

1076 Cyclone
Using Cyclone
2. Select the pad or pads you want to play by clicking on them.
3. Click the Preview button to play the selected pads.
If the Loop button for that pad is depressed the loop plays indefinitely;
you can stop it by clicking the Pad again.
If the Loop button is not depressed, the loop stops when it reaches the
end of its original length. You can stop it before then by clicking the
Pad.
You can also trigger the Pads with a MIDI controller, or with recorded MIDI
data.
To Play a Loop in Latch Mode
1. Assign a loop to a Pad (see To Assign a Loop to a Pad).
2. In the Pad Editor, select the track you want to loop in Latch mode.
3. In the Pad Inspector, click the Latch control to enable it. The Latch
control indicator appears green when enabled.
4. Click the mouse on the pad to start the loop playing.
5. Click the mouse on the pad again to stop playing.
The loop stops playing as soon as you release the mouse button.
To Assign a Loop to a Pad
• Drag a loop from the Loop bin to a Pad.
OR
• Click a folder icon that’s on a particular Pad that you want to load a loop
into. When the Open dialog appears, select a loop and click Open.
Cyclone loads the loop into both the Pad where you clicked the folder
icon and the Loop bin.
OR
• Drag a loop onto a Pad from SONAR‘s Clips pane or Loop Explorer
view.
You can assign one loop per Pad.
To Synchronize a Loop to Cakewalk’s Tempo
• Click the Sync button that’s on the Pad that the loop is assigned to. The
Sync button lights up when it’s engaged.
To Set a Loop to Follow Cakewalk’s Pitch Markers
1. In the Pad Editor, select the track you want to follow pitch markers.