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

[lancet]

yes.

with pattern mode ON,( i said off before sorry) . you can either play/record the patterns with a midi keyboard or draw them in as notes.

NOTE: one thing that really confused me at first. The default patterns start at C-1, that's minus 1, not dash 1, so the patterns actually were 1 octave lower than I thought they were. Playing or drawing drawing C1 did nothing.

Load a preset kit and look at the lower left corner and you'll see
"1 (C-1) sq" that means the current pattern is playable with C-1.

Go to the arrange window and on the UB track draw in a midi object with the pencil tool , double click it and draw a note at C-1 , press play. The pattern should be playing.

BTW you can also just drag the pattern to the arrange window as well. This will copy the notes to the arrange window as a midi object.

The various modes of pattern triggering are. (you'll may need to play with these to see what I mean)

-One shot trig - the pattern will play in it's entirety when triggered by it's note.

-Sustain - the pattern will play for the duration of the triggering note, a whole note will play the pattern for 4 beats , a half note will play for 2 beats etc. assuming 4/4.

-Toggle- note on, note off. The triggering note starts the pattern , that note again stops it.

-Toggle on step 1 - this one still confuses me somewhat, so here it is from the plug-in reference

"• Toggle On 1—The behavior is as per Toggled mode except that the pattern change or
stop occurs the next time beat 1 is reached—at the beginning of the next pattern
cycle. "



I hope this has been helpful some how..


This post has been edited by lancet: Tue 18 Oct 2005, 16:01