Operation Manual

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Browsing for MIDI Patterns and Styles
The Load panel allows you to browse for patterns and styles and assign them to the pattern
pads.
PREREQUISITE
Show Pattern Pads is activated on the left.
PROCEDURE
1. Depending on the le type that you want to load, select the Styles or MIDI page.
2. On the Select Content Set menu, select the content set from which you want to load a le.
To browse the entire content, select All.
3. Optional: In the upper section of the page, click on an attribute to display only those les
containing the attribute, for example, percussion, or a specic musical style, etc.
You can activate several attribute lters simultaneously.
4. If you are looking for a specic le, enter its name in the text search eld on the toolbar.
You can also enter text that is part of the le name or the le attributes in the search eld.
5. Use the transport controls below the results list to prelisten the results.
6. Step through the les in the results list and listen to them until you found the le that you
want to use.
7. Drag the le onto a pad.
8. Repeat the above steps to assigning more les to other pads.
RELATED LINKS
Prelistening Patterns and Styles on page 41
Prelisten Section for MIDI Patterns and Styles on page 40
Playing back Pattern Pads
You can play back pattern pads using the MIDI Player or the Style Player. The MIDI player
allows you to play and modify one pattern. The style player offers a variety of patterns, suited to
create the different sections of your drum tracks.
PROCEDURE
1. Load an Acoustic Agent kit.
2. Open the Pattern page and click on an empty pattern pad.
If a pattern pad is empty, it also plays the instrument sound.
3. To activate the pattern pad and make it play the pattern, open the Edit page in the right
section of the plug-in panel and click Pad On/Off in the top right so that it lights up.
4. Click the Use Style button to activate the style player, and select a style from the Select Style
pop-up menu.
5. Adjust the tempo in the DAW to match the tempo of the style.
The original tempo of the style is indicated by the second number in the le name of the
style and in the value eld to the right of the Select Style pop-up menu.
6. Click the Play button in the transport section to play back the style.
7. Try out different Quantize and Swing settings, move the Complexity slider, select a main
pattern, a ll, an ending, etc., and listen to the results.
Getting Started
Browsing for MIDI Patterns and Styles
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