User manual

The best start would probably be a simple tutorial. Just follow these steps, please:
Switch to Rhythm generator tab.
Use the Load button to load some predefined generator settings.
Load a loop from Beats subdirectory using the Essential beat editor, or just edit some simple groove.
Leave Output rhythm channel with 1, so the target rhythm will be generated to the channel 1.
Click the Generate all button.
Switch to Rhythm editor and check your new rhythm on channel 1.
How does it work
Let's start with the beat generating algorithm. You have loaded or edited an essential beat loop in the loop editor and probably have noticed, that it is
fairly simple - typically just a bass drum and a snare drum track. That's why it is called an essential beat. The loop is usually a little bit special - many
notes have defined minimal level parameter. This allows rhythm generator to create different beats for different levels just by removing unsuitable
notes.
Then you have selected a base rhythm. Base rhythm is simply a rhythm containing percussive loops with hihat tracks, cymbal tracks..., but no
snare or bass drums for example. MDrummer merges several loops generated from your essential beat and loops from the base rhythm.
Now let's see how MDrummer generates intros, breaks and outros. If you click the Advanced settings button, the window being displayed contains
a set of panels, one for each loop type. There is a checkable tree of directories from the MDrummer's loop database. We have created thousands of
loops for you. You only need to check, what loops to take. By default Standard directory is checked in each of the trees. This is the directory
containing the most standard loops used in poprock and such common styles. But you can check something else to give MDrummer more potential
to choose from. MDrummer chooses many of these loops and merges the base rhythm to them.
Rhythm generator can save so much of your time. We have designed it when we got to the point in the development, where we had to create some
rhythms and we understood, that such dirty work would spend years without such a tool. And it is now available for you too. You only need to play
with it and use it to improve your creativity!
Essential beat preview
Most of the time you'll be working with rhythm generator you will probably be editing essential beats. It is good to be able to listen to the resulting
rhythm before you actually generate it. Moreover since rhythm generator modifies target beats according to levels of destination loop boxes, you
should be able to listen to it in any level you want. And Preview panel offers you exactly these services.