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
If Snap to Grid is activated, the note end or start snaps to the grid when you change the
note length.
● To move a note, drag it to another position.
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To delete a note, click it with the Erase tool.
● To cut, copy, and paste notes, use the standard key commands.
Notes are pasted at the cursor position.
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To duplicate notes, select them and press Ctrl/Cmd -[D].
Duplicated notes are inserted after the last note of the selection, according to the set grid.
NOTE
When entering, editing, and duplicating notes, double notes can occur, that is, notes that are
placed exactly on top of other notes. To remedy this, right-click the header of the drum sounds
list and select Delete Double Notes.
Quantizing Notes
You can draw notes with a global quantization grid or with an individual quantization grid for
each instrument.
● To draw notes with the global quantization grid, set the Quantize Presets pop-up menu to
the quantize value that you want to use and activate the
Global Quantize button.
NOTE
If you activate Iterative Quantize, the notes are not aligned with the exact quantize note
positions, but are moved halfway there.
● To change the quantize value for a pad, click the Q column for the sound and select another
value from the pop-up menu.
Dening the Length of a Pattern
Changing the length of a pattern in the Pattern editor allows you to add a pause behind the last
MIDI event of the pattern, for example.
PROCEDURE
● Drag the end marker to a new position on the timeline.
If you drag the end marker to the left and the bars behind the end marker are empty, the
length of the pattern is shortened automatically.
If you drag the end marker to the left and the bars behind the end marker contain MIDI
events, the length of the pattern is shortened only to the bar that contains the last MIDI
event. No MIDI events are deleted.
Dening the Playback Range
You can specify the range of the pattern that you want to be played back.
PROCEDURE
● To dene which part of a pattern is played back, drag the start and end markers of the
pattern on the timeline.
RESULT
MIDI events before the start or after the end marker are not played back.
Working With Pads
Pattern Pads
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