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Tutorial 10—Cyclone Soft Synth
Click the Preview button to listen to the song so far.
Now let’s make some changes.
Next step: Setting a Pad’s Volume and Pan
Setting a Pad’s Volume and Pan
Now let’s tweak some of the pad groups’ controls.
To Change the Volume and Pan in a Pad Group
1. In pad group two, click on the Volume knob and drag your mouse down
to lower the volume until the volume level indicator is vertical.
2. Repeat step 1 for the Volume knob in pad group 3.
3. In pad group two click the Pan knob and drag the mouse up until it is
panned hard left.
4. In pad group four, click the Pan knob and drag the mouse down until it
is panned hard right.
Click Play to hear all the pad groups together.
Now let’s explore the different ways you can use Cyclone.
Next step: Playing Cyclone
Playing Cyclone
Now that we have added loops and adjusted some of the pad group
controls, let’s use Cyclone as a real-time instrument and as a synth device.
To Play an Existing MIDI Track Through Cyclone
First, we’ll create a MIDI track which will trigger the pads in Cyclone.
1. In the Track view, select an empty MIDI track. If you don’t have a blank
MIDI track, select Insert-MIDI Track.
2. In the MIDI track’s Output field, select Cyclone 1.
3. Select the MIDI track and open the Piano Roll view.
4. In the Piano Roll view, right-click on the Snap to Grid button to open the
Snap to Grid dialog.
5. In the Snap to Grid dialog, click the Musical Time option and select
Measure.
6. In the Mode section of the Snap to Grid dialog, select the Move To
option and click OK.
7. Click the Draw tool button.