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To Play Cyclone with Your Mouse
As soon as you click on a pad in Cyclone the first loop begins to play. Simply click
pads to turn them on and click on them again to turn them off.
To Play Cyclone with a MIDI Keyboard or Controller
For the purposes of this part of the tutorial we assume you have an external MIDI
controller like a keyboard. If you don’t, just move on to the next part of the tutorial,
“Editing Loops in the Loop Editor” on page 111. There’s plenty more to know about
Cyclone!
1. Make sure your MIDI device is hooked up properly.
2. Select the MIDI track that is assigned to Cyclone DXi.
3. On your MIDI keyboard press and hold C5, D5, E5 or F5 (the C, D, E or F keys
in the center of your keyboard.
The appropriate loop plays through Cyclone DXi.
Now let’s create new loops by substituting slices.
Editing Loops in the Loop Editor
Each beat of a loop, as it appears in the Loop view or the Pad Editor can be
replaced with a beat from another loop.
To Replace Slices
1. Click the Load Files button in pad 5 and select MARACAS.WAV from the
Tutorials folder.
2. In the Cyclone DXi toolbar, click the Auto Preview button.
3. Select the maracas loop in the Loop Bin.
The maracas loop appears in the Loop view.
4. Click the first slice of the maracas loop in the Loop view. We are going to use
this slice as a substitute for some of the slices in pad 1.
5. Click and drag the first slice of the maracas loop into the Pad Editor over the
slices in the pad 1.
6. Drop the loop on the third slice, a cymbal hit that’s located half-way through
beat 1 of the 100
BEAT2.WAV loop.
7. Listen to the other slices in pad 1, and substitute the slice of the maracas loop
for parts of the 100
BEAT2.WAV loop.
8. Click Play in Cyclone DXi to hear the changes.
There is much more to the Cyclone DXi. For more information, see “Appendix C:
Cyclone” on page 661.
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