10.6

182Logic Pro Instruments
• Select Channel strip by Pad: Choose to turn on or turn off the selection of channel
strips when you click a pad in the grid.
Note: This not only selects the corresponding subtrack and channel strip of the
selected pad, but also sets focus to the master track. This ensures that notes played
on the master track continue to be distributed to all subtracks. You can turn on both
“Select Pad by Key” and “Select Channel Strip by Pad” to select pads, subtracks and
channel strips by playing a key on your MIDI keyboard.
• Open/Close Library: Open or close the Library pane. Click a kit patch name in the
Library to exchange the entire kit.
• Use Empty Kit as Default: Turn on this option to use an empty kit when you insert
Drum Machine Designer on an instrument channel strip.
• Hide/Show General MIDI Drum Names: Hide or show General MIDI (GM) drum names
on each active pad. This is useful as a reference when mapping new sounds in a
kit that you want to conform with the GM Drum standard. For example, when using
Drum Machine Designer on a Drummer track.
• Hide/Show Kit Piece Icons: Hide or show the colored icons on each active pad.
Note: When you move the pointer over a pad, a small speaker icon is shown. Click
this icon to play the sound.
• Reorder Pads: Choose the “Change Sounds” or “Visual Only” options to alter how
pad layout changes affect assigned pad sounds. The pad layout can be changed by
reordering pads. For example, when you insert a pad between other pads or drop
one pad onto another to exchange them.
• Change Sounds: Changing the pad layout moves the sounds of the pads, but
pad input and output note settings are not changed: The sounds will appear in a
different order when played via a MIDI keyboard or by a recorded region.
• Visual Only: Changing the pad layout moves the pads and sounds together, so
reordering will only have a visual effect: The pads will appear in a different order,
but assigned sounds are still played by the same MIDI notes.
• Sort Pads by GM Drum Standard: Choose to automatically remap the order of pads
to the General MIDI (GM) Drum standard, which is used by Drummer. This changes
the visual order of pads, but does not remap sounds.
Note: Regardless of the “Reorder Pads” setting, both “Sort Pads” options will sort
the pads visually, in accordance with input note values.
• Sort Pads Chromatically: Choose to automatically remap the order of pads
chromatically from C1. This changes the visual order of pads, but does not remap
sounds.
Note: In order to play the instrument of a Drum Machine Designer subtrack
chromatically and polyphonically, the instrument plug-in must react to different
notes with different pitches, and its number of voices (polyphony) must be greater
than one. If you have created a Drum Machine Designer kit and can’t play a subtrack
instrument chromatically and polyphonically, please check that the instrument
voices or polyphony parameter is set to a value greater than one. Also make sure the
instrument key tracking parameter is turned on.
• Update Kit Name for all Kit Pieces: Choose to apply the current kit name to all kit
pieces. This is useful when you add new kit pieces to an existing kit.
• Clear all Pads: Remove all assigned kit pieces from all pads.