CAKEWALK PRO AUDIO, User Manual

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H-9
Session Drummer
Since the Session Drummer plays the pattern over and over, it is
extremely important that the pattern loops correctly. You can check this
before you save your Style pattern by selecting the clip in the track view
and looping it using the loop toolbar.
Guidelines
¥ Patterns should be voiced for General MIDI and be contained on a
single track
¥ Patterns can be of any length
¥ Patterns must include a marker, located at the beginning of the
pattern.
¥ Make sure that the pattern is aligned to a measure. Setting the snap
to button to 1 measure is helpful to ensure this.
¥ Make sure that the beginning and ending of the pattern does not
cross measure boundaries. Remember that the Session Drummer
will loop and you want it to loop on measure boundaries.
¥ Make sure that the volume of the pattern is constant, with no
volume increase or decreases.
Drumtrax Style files in the Session
Drummer
Experiment with sounds
A Hip Hop or a Rap tune may require different drum sounds than a
country song or a rock ballad. Above all, experiment Ð a groove played on
an acoustic drum set takes on a whole new ßavor when played on World
kit.
Be creative
¥ DonÕt limit your groove selection to a speciÞc category. Most of the
grooves can be used in many different styles of music. For example,
many of the Hard Rock patterns can interchanged with the
Alternative patterns.
¥ Experiment! Speed up or slow down tempos; chain or loop sections
using the Session DrummerÕs Song arrangement feature.
¥ Change Instrument Sounds.
¥ Once you have printed a Session Drummer part to the track, try
removing instruments from the Piano Roll view to strip down the
groove
¥ Overdub your own parts over the patterns