3.7. One instrument, four sounds
We're going to construct a very simple pattern: it will only have four Kick drum events. Find
an empty pattern, slow the tempo down to 60 bpm, and we'll begin.
1. Select the Kick drum instrument (hold Shift and tap the Kick drum pad)
2. Press the Step mode button. All of the Step buttons should go dark
3. Enter Kick drum events on steps 1, 5, 9, and 13
4. Press Play. You should hear four Kick drums, evenly spaced
5. Press the Accent mode button
6. Enter Accent events on steps 5 and 13
7. Press Play. You should hear four Kick drums, with every other event accented
8. Hold the Color button. All of the Step buttons should go dark. You are viewing
Color Step mode now
9. Still holding the Color button, add events on steps 9 and 13
10. Press Play. You should hear four Kick drums, with distortion on the third and
fourth events.
Here's what's happening in our pattern:
Step number
Normal
Accent
Color, no Accent
Color with Accent
1
x
5
x
9
x
13
x
Here's a different view of the same track:
Step number
Accent
Color
1
No
No
5
Yes
No
9
No
Yes
13
Yes
Yes
There's another important thing to try with this pattern:
1. Press the Step mode button. Step buttons 1, 5, 9, and 13 should be blue/red/blue/
red
2. Press Step buttons 9 and 13 until they go dark. #13 will take two presses (Accent
off, step off)
3. Press the Color button to confirm that Color events still exist on steps 9 and 13
4. Press Play. You will hear two Kick drums and then silence for two beats until the
pattern loops.
Why did that happen? Because a Color event is not a trigger event: it will only be heard on
a step that has been enabled in Step mode or in Accent mode.
Now start at the top and try the same experiments with each of the instruments. They all
have four different variations, and the variations for each instrument are different. That
adds up to an astounding number of ways for these 10 instruments to lend themselves to
your creative process!
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