3.3 Recording Your First Pattern ....................................................................................................... 41
3.4 Playing with Your Pattern ........................................................................................................... 43
3.4.1 Using Solo and Mute .................................................................................................. 43
3.4.2 Using Note Repeat ..................................................................................................... 46
3.5 Saving Your Project .................................................................................................................... 47
3.6 To Sum Up… .............................................................................................................................. 48
4 Building Your Own Drum Kit .......................................................................................
49
4.1 Opening Your Project .................................................................................................................. 49
4.2 Customizing Your Drum Kit ......................................................................................................... 53
4.2.1 Selecting Another Snare Sample ................................................................................ 53
4.2.2 Loading a Drumsynth ................................................................................................ 58
4.2.2.2 Loading a Drumsynth into a Plug-in List on the Controller ........................62
4.2.3 Adjusting Volume, Swing and Tempo ......................................................................... 64
4.2.4 Changing the Color of Your Sounds ........................................................................... 67
4.2.5 Moving your Sounds and Groups ................................................................................ 69
4.3 Saving Your Project .................................................................................................................... 70
4.4 To Sum Up… .............................................................................................................................. 70
5 Creating Beats ..........................................................................................................
72
5.1 Fine-tuning your First Pattern ..................................................................................................... 72
5.1.1 Your Pattern in the Software ...................................................................................... 73
5.1.2 Doubling the Pattern and Adding a Variation ............................................................ 74
5.1.3 Quantizing the Rhythm .............................................................................................. 75
5.2 Adding a Second Pattern ............................................................................................................ 78
5.2.1 Selecting a Pattern Slot ............................................................................................. 78
5.2.2 Adjusting the Pattern Length ..................................................................................... 79
5.2.3 Recording a New Pattern Using the Count-in ............................................................ 81
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