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Chapter 11: User Programmable Functions
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Let’s examine the pattern in detail.
The highlighted cell shows that the Bass Drum is being played on beat 1 at a velocity of 83. (The loudest possible
note has a velocity of 127, while 0 is silent.) Moving to the right, you will see that the Bass Drum plays again on the
second eighth note of beat 2 with a velocity of 73, and then on beat 3 with a velocity of 93, the familiar “boom-ba-
boom” Pop/ Bossa Nova beat.
The Closed High Hat plays straight eighth notes at different velocities.
The Snare Drum plays on beats 2 and 4 in a typical Light Rock backbeat.
You can easily create new patterns of your own by selecting an empty box in a row of patterns and then clicking the
[Rec] button to open a blank Drum Pattern Editor grid. To hear the pattern you have made click on the [Play]
button. Click on the [Help] button for more tips and details.
Tip: All Band-in-a-Box styles must have at least one drum pattern, even if there are no drums in the style. In that case,
open the Drum Grid Editor and enter a value of 0 on beat 1 of the pattern for any drum and then save the pattern.
Click on the [Exit] button to return to the Drum
window.
The Drum Options dialog will open, click on [OK]
and it will close. The options are explained in the
in-depth tutorial.
This type of pattern is found in earlier Band-in-a-
Box styles. Later styles use live MIDI drums,
which are edited as notation.
Now let’s examine a bass pattern.