User Manual

REDRUM DRUM COMPUTER
(RECORD+REASON)
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1. Click the folder button for a drum sound channel.
The Redrum sample browser opens.
2. Locate and open a drum sample.
You will find a large number of drum samples in the Factory Sound Bank (in the folder Redrum Drum Kits/xclusive
drums-sorted). You can also use any AIFF, Wave, SoundFont sample or REX file slice for this.
3. Make the desired settings for the drum sound channel.
The parameters are described in “Redrum parameters”.
4. Repeat steps 1 and 3 for the other drum sound channels.
5. When you’re satisfied with the drum kit, you can save the patch by clicking the Floppy Disk button in the patch
section on the device panel.
Note however, that you don’t necessarily need to save the patch - all settings are included when you save the
song.
Loading REX file slices
Loading slices from within a REX file is done much in the same way as loading “regular” samples:
1. Open the sample browser as described above.
2. Browse to a REX file.
Possible extensions are “.rex2”, “.rex” and “.rcy”.
3. Select the file and click “Open”.
The browser will now display a list of all the separate slices within the REX file.
4. Select the desired slice and click open.
The slice is loaded into the Redrum.
Creating an empty patch
To “initialize” the settings in the Redrum, select “Initialize Patch” from the Edit menu or the device context menu. This
removes all samples for all drum sound channels, and sets all parameters to their default values.
Programming patterns
Pattern basics
Redrum contains a built-in pattern sequencer. Unlike the main sequencer in Record, the Redrum sequencer repeat-
edly plays back a pattern of a specified length. The typical analogy in the “real world” is a drum machine which plays
drum patterns, usually one or two bars in length.
Having the same pattern repeat throughout a whole song may be fine in some cases, but most often you want some
variations. The solution is to create several different patterns and program pattern changes (automatic switching from
one pattern to another) at the desired positions in the song.