10.6

186Logic Pro Instruments
Pad parameters
• Pad: Move the pointer over the pad to view Mute, Solo, Input, Output, and Action menu
options. Click the speaker icon to play the sound. Drag the pad to reorder it in the
grid. Double-click the pad or kit name to rename it (and the subtrack). You can also
exchange the kit piece sound assigned to the pad.
Note: When you click a pad icon or pad background, the Smart Controls pane updates
to show parameters specific to the sound. Click the disclosure triangle at the lower left
of the grid if the Smart Controls pane is not visible.
Note: The Kit name pad in the kit controls bar displays a muted speaker icon when
you move the pointer over it during playback. This can be used to immediately stop
playback of all kit pieces. This is useful when you want to silence a long One Shot
sample that you are previewing in a Quick Sampler-based kit piece, for example.
• Unassigned pad: A pad without a corresponing subtrack is called an unassigned pad.
You can recognize it by the missing icon, missing kit piece name and missing kit name,
and by the “+” icon that appears when you move the pointer over the pad. Click the “+”
icon to create a new, empty subtrack and channel strip, or click the pad and choose a
kit piece in the Library. You can also drag an audio sample or a region onto the pad.
Note: In cases where you have used the Clear Pad command, the pad will have
no assigned sound, but will have a corresponding subtrack, so the “+” icon is not
displayed.
• Mute button: Use to silence the subtrack assigned to the pad. Multiple pads can be
muted.
• Solo button: Use to hear the sound in isolation. This solos the subtrack. All other pads
are muted, indicated by a flashing Mute button. Multiple pads can be soloed.
• Input pop-up menu: Choose, or learn, an input note number for the pad. You can assign
multiple pads to the same input note, allowing you to create layered sounds consisting
of multiple channel strips with different instruments.
• Output pop-up menu: Choose, or learn, an output note number for the pad.
Note: MIDI notes received on the master track are distributed to subtracks, in
accordance with the input and output notes assigned to the pads. This is true for both
notes from regions on the master track, and for notes played in realtime when the
master track is the focused track. For example, if the pad assigned to the first subtrack
is set to input note C1 and to output note G2, a C1 played on the master track is
converted to a G2. This note value is passed to the first subtrack and plays a G2 on the
instrument inserted in the subtrack channel strip.
• Action menu: Choose a command for the pad.
• Exclusive Group: Choose a group for the pad. You can assign multiple pads to the
same group. As soon as one drum sound in the group is triggered, all other sounds
in that same group are stopped. For example, you could group three pads with open,
semi-closed, and closed hi-hat sounds. Only one of these sounds can be played at a
time, mirroring the behavior of real hi-hats.
Note: The group number is shown at the top right of each pad in the group when any
group member is selected.
• Open/Close Library: Open or close the Library pane. Click a patch name in the
Library to exchange the assigned kit piece.