Operation Manual
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Common Editing Methods
- Getting Started
- Window Overview
- Agents, Kits, Multis, and Content Files
- Loading a Kit
- Pattern and Instrument Pads
- Browsing for MIDI Patterns and Styles
- Playing back Pattern Pads
- Converting Styles to MIDI Patterns
- Modifying MIDI Patterns in the Pattern Editor
- Creating the Different Sections of a Drum Track
- Recording Trigger Notes for Your Patterns
- Dragging Patterns into a Project
- Editing Patterns in the DAW
- Working with Multiple Agents
- Recording the MIDI Output
- Note Repeat
- Decompose
- Managing Your Sounds
- Loading Kits
- Kit Slot
- Kit Rack
- Kit Context Menu
- Managing and Loading Files
- Managing Files via the Kits, Instruments, Styles, and MIDI Pages
- Loading Files Using the Browser
- Working With Pads
- Pad Section
- Renaming Pads
- Using Different MIDI Channels/Ports for Instrument Pads and Pattern Pads
- Instrument Pads
- Pattern Pads
- Assigning MIDI Patterns or Styles to Pads
- Assigning Multiple Files to Pads
- Pattern Pad Context Menu
- Global Pattern Pads
- Removing MIDI Files from Pads
- Locking Pad Settings
- Moving and Copying Pattern Pads
- Pattern Groups
- Agent Page
- Overview Page
- Pattern Editor
- Beat Agent
- Beat Agent Sound Editing
- Absolute and Relative Editing
- Showing Information About the Pads
- Locking Color and Output Settings
- Editing Selected Samples or All Samples
- Soloing the Focused Sample
- Assigning Samples to Pads
- Assigning Samples to Outputs
- Removing Samples From Pads
- Changing the Order of Pads
- Saving Beat Agent Instruments
- Loading Beat Agent Instruments
- Mapping View
- Main Tab
- Editing Envelopes
- Pitch Tab
- Filter Tab
- Amp Tab
- Sample Tab
- Slice Tab
- Decompose Tab
- Recorder Tab
- Importing and Exporting Files
- Beat Agent Sound Editing
- Acoustic Agent
- Percussion Agent
- Mixing and Effect Handling
- Effects Reference
- Automation and MIDI Controllers
- Global Functions and Settings
- Using the Standalone Version of the Plug-in
- Mixer Routing Diagrams
- Index
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 specic musical style, etc.
You can activate several attribute lters simultaneously.
4. If you are looking for a specic 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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