Yes, we are going for a drum emulation of the legendary Roland TR-808!
That was just the beginning. Now we will create a simple drum loop and go on from there.
First we'll have to create a machine. Open the right click menu
in the machine view.
Yes, we are going for a drum emulation of the legendary Roland
TR-808!
Now we will have to connect them two machines, do this by putting
your cursor on Rout808 and then pressing shift and dragging to
Master module.
Now let's program a drum beat. Go to the pattern editor(F2).
Now you'll see two sides separated by space. On the left are
the parameter changes and on the right is the drum programming.
The drum is programmed with a simple on off system used much these
days by drummers. Select a dot to see what it represents (Marked
by red rectangle, this dot represents BD, a drum sound's level)
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The things you need to know about this view is that you can make new
patterns by pressing Ctrl+Enter and the control bars (marked by a
green rectangle) where you can select machines & Patterns.
Now copy the pattern above.
Now you have programmed a simple drum pattern, but there is no sound yet.
We need to add it to our sequence. Let's fire up the sequence window (F4).
Here we will add our patterns to our sequence. For sequences we have
choices of sequence on the right: mute(.), break(,) and pattern 00(0).
First we'll make our composition longer. Click to the dots on the right
of 32 now press Ctrl+E two times. now the end tab should move, let's move
the beginning point to 16 by selecting 16 and pressing Ctrl+B two times.
Now press play to hear the result.
