Newbie Using Logic Pro 7 / Ultrabeat Options

[jewliscrumptious]

Hello all - newbie here (please don't hate me cos i'm new)

I have created a basic drum loop on the *fantastic* Ultrabeat step sequencer and want to add it to the project so I can chop/change where it start stops in the song.

It plays fine when I playback the main song but doenst appear as an editable track (i hope you understand what I mean??) so I cannot cut the loop out in certain parts.

I have read the manual and there aren't really any instructions on how to do this?

I am using mainly audio tracks (guitar/vocals/harmonies) and just 1 drum track.

Any advice would be very much appreciated

thanks

This post has been edited by jewliscrumptious: Mon 17 Oct 2005, 15:39

[PhilTrueman]

Greetings,

Jewliscrumptious - welcome. Ultrabeat (I love it!) is an 'audio instrument'. It works via MIDI. Please see the post from lancet.

In the audio instrument track - where you have put Ultrabeat as a plug-in - you need to add notes via a MIDI keyboard or with the mouse.

Select the track in the arrange window - by clicking on the left hand panel where the 'name' is - click on the 'pencil' in the Toobox - and then click the pencil on the actual track. A 'box' will appear ready for recording into. Make sure the track is armed for recording clicking the red 'R' and click the 'play' button on the transport bar - or just hit the asterisk key on your numeric keypad - you can then record from a MIDI keyboard. Hit the spacebar to stop.
Or - just double click on the 'box' you have placed there with the pencil tool and - still using the pencil - click notes in the matrix window where the equivalent drums are.

You'll have to 'play' the track to hear the notes. The keyboard map in Ultrabeat will show you which 'notes' are to be drawn/played to get the right drum part.

Does that make sense? If you are using Ultrabeat with MIDI notes - please make sure any 'patterns' within UB are turned off - otherwise you get both.

Keylock7 - select an audio instruement track and go to the insert plug-in box on the very lower left - follow the menus down to Stereo>Logic> and you will see Ultrabeat down at the bottom of the list.

Enjoy... don't forget - make a drum track in UB then add a compressor plug-in - it really rocks.

PT