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DRUM EDITOR
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Choosing a rhythmic pattern for the Rhythm
Brush
There are five ways to choose a rhythmic pattern
for the Rhythm Brush tool, as summarized below:
The preset menu
The preset menu lets you save and recall standard
grid pattern settings that you’ve made with the Grid
settings shown earlier in Figure 41-25. To make a
preset, make the settings as desired and then
choose Save Pattern from the preset menu. A dialog
asks you for a name, and then you click OK. Your
new preset then appears in the Preset menu. To edit
the presets in the menu, use the Edit Patterns item
in the menu.
Using custom rhythmic patterns
The Rhythm Brush Custom option lets you select
preset rhythm patterns and create your own preset
patterns.
Figure 41-26: Click the ‘Custom’ button to create and select custom
instrument patterns.
To choose an existing pattern, select it from the
menu provided.
Creating custom patterns
To create and save your own preset pattern:
1 Select some MIDI note data in the Drum Editor
Note Grid that matches the rhythmic pattern you
want.
You can select any data you want, including data
you recorded, data you imported into the Drum
Editor from a library of drum patterns, or any
other MIDI data. The data you select can be of any
length.
☛ If the rhythmic pattern you are creating either
begins or ends with a rest (any period of silence),
be sure to make a time range selection (instead of
an event selection) that includes the necessary
amount of time before the first note and/or after
the last note. Otherwise, the saved pattern won’t
include the rest. Note, however, that a time range
selection might include drum instruments that you
may not want to include in your pattern. If this is
Method What to do
To use the same pattern you
used last time for an instru-
ment
Choose the Use last preset used
with the instrument option.
To use a new pattern that con-
sists of a standard rhythmic
grid
Click the Choose Preset option,
and then set the grid as desired
with the settings shown in
Figure 41-25.
To use a standard rhythmic
grid that you have previously
saved as a preset
Choose the preset from the
Preset menu.
To use a custom preset rhyth-
mic pattern (triangle, bongo,
etc.)
Click the Custom button, and
choose the Rhythmic pattern
from the menu, as shown
below in Figure 41-26.
To use a rhythmic pattern
based on a raw number of ticks
between each note
Click the Fixed Value button
and type in the desired number
of ticks as shown in
Figure 41-27.