User Guide

Note that these are single voice based operations, all sequence and voice data of the

other 24 drum voices remain untouched. This is why we talk about sequences as

opposed to patterns. Patterns contain data for all 25 Drum Voices. You should also note

that importing is a “downstream” process—you can copy and paste data from the

imported Ultrabeat Setting into your current Setting, but not vice versa.

The other context menu entries in the mixer/assignment section work as follows:

• Swap with Clipboard swaps the content of the Clipboard with the target drum voice.

As this command swaps both Drum Voice + Sequence data, it’s very useful for

reorganization of your drum kit.

• The Init submenu contains a few starting-point (Init) sounds. Selecting one of them

will replace the target Drum Voice.

Auditioning Sample Based Sounds

You can preview a sound by clicking on its name in the Import List, prior to importing

it. If you would like to import a sound that contains samples, double-click on its name.

This difference in methodology is due to the following: An Ultrabeat setting contains

25 drum sounds, each of which can contain up to 16 samples. If all samples were

loaded into your computer’s RAM when a setting was chosen in the Import menu,

Ultrabeat would spend a lot of time loading them into memory. The more user-friendly,

and faster, solution is to only load the samples of the drum sounds you either; want to

import or audition. The double-click works in the following fashion when importing a

drum sound that contains samples: the first click loads the samples into RAM, the

second click starts playback.

HMT Tuning

Ultrabeat is designed as a drum synthesizer and does not respond to the global

Hermode Tuning settings.

EXS24 mkII

The following information supplements the EXS24 mkII section in the Logic Pro 7

Plug-In Reference.

Vel Offset parameter

The Vel Offset parameter—found towards the top left of the EXS24mkII GUI—offsets

the incoming MIDI note velocity value by ±127. This limits or expands the dynamic

response of the EXS24 mkII to incoming note events.