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Bucket Pops

Vintage Rhythm Machine

Version 1.0

© 2020 by Björn Arlt 

www.fullbucket.de/music

Presets and testing by kraftraum 

soundcloud.com/kraftraum

VST is a trademark of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH

Windows

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The Audio Units logo is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.

Summary of Contents for Bucket Pops

Page 1: ...Arlt www fullbucket de music Presets and testing by kraftraum soundcloud com kraftraum VST is a trademark of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporati...

Page 2: ...5 Options Menu 6 The Main Page 7 Selecting Rhythms 7 Playing Rhythms 7 Level Sliders 8 The POWER Button 8 User Rhythm Patterns 8 The Settings Page 9 Instrument Parameters 9 Output Mixer and Note Assi...

Page 3: ...n sounds this is it You are not fond of Rumba Well I never heard a more impressive Rumba pattern than that at the very beginning of Oxygene Part 6 where the Mini Pops 7 slowly blends into the artifici...

Page 4: ...It should work on almost all machines even on 32 bit Macs Acknowledgments Big thanks to kraftraum https soundcloud com kraftraum who has again designed many of the default patches and was again THE Be...

Page 5: ...licking Note that this convention applies for the whole manual MIDI Learn And The Config File bucketpops ini Every parameter of the Bucket Pops can be controlled by one MIDI controller If you want to...

Page 6: ...e current Startup bank is Unselect Startup Bank Unselect the current Startup bank MIDI Thru Set globally if MIDI data sent to Bucket Pops should be sent through to its MIDI output Ignore Program Chang...

Page 7: ...ifferent rows thus Rumba Habanera is an impossible combination unless you are willing to re create such a pattern yourself see section The Sequence Page Playing Rhythms To start or stop the machine ju...

Page 8: ...roup of instruments Hihat Cymbal 1 Cymbal 2 while the VOLUME slider does the obvious thing The POWER Button The POWER button seems to be a bit useless However it makes perfect sense to automate this b...

Page 9: ...ailable for all instruments parameter instrument description TUNE all Frequency of main oscillator or filter ATTACK all except Guiro Attack time of amplitude envelope DECAY all except Guiro Decay time...

Page 10: ...ntry Set Middle C allows you to select the notation schema of your choice The idea here is to select which name to use for MIDI note number 60 C3 Used for example in Cubase Ableton and Bitwig C4 The s...

Page 11: ...ng and Bucket Pops is actually playing you will see a green dot at the top row with the step numbers Left clicking inside the event matrix activates or deactivates an event beat for the current instru...

Page 12: ...slowed down by the factor 3 4 In Bucket Pops the button tripl for triplets activates exactly this specific tempo reduction while in the case of Slow Rock each seventh and eighth step are deactivated...

Page 13: ...requency 64 Frequency of instrument Base Base Attack 65 Attack time of instrument Base Base Decay 66 Decay time of instrument Base Snare 1 Frequency 67 Frequency of instrument Snare 1 Snare 1 Attack 6...

Page 14: ...nt Cowbell Cowbell Frequency 2 95 Frequency 2 of instrument Cowbell Cowbell Decay 2 96 Decay time 2 of instrument Cowbell Claves Frequency 97 Frequency of instrument Claves Claves Attack 98 Attack tim...

Page 15: ...trument Tambourine Tambourine Reso 120 Resonance of instrument Tambourine Tambourine Highpass 121 Highpass frequency of instrument Tambourine Guiro Frequency 122 Frequency of instrument Guiro Guiro Ra...

Page 16: ...t or control click on it In the context menu click on Open You will be asked if you really want to install the package because it comes from an unidentified developer me J Click OK and follow the inst...

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