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Chapter 13 Add a drummer to your project 375
Follow the rhythm of another track
You can have the kick and snare portions of a Drummer region follow another track so that the
beat Drummer plays is inuenced by the rhythm of the content of another instrument. You may
nd, for example, that it makes more musical sense to have the chorus beat inuenced by a
guitar track, while the rest of the song follows a bass track. You can set this option on a region
basis, which means that each Drummer region can follow a dierent track.
The following types of audio material are best suited to lending their structure to Drummer
regions:
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Audio les recorded using monophonic, polyphonic, or percussive instruments.
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Audio les containing notes played on the same beat—no overlapping chord notes.
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Audio les recorded without distortion, overdrive, compressor, or modulation eects.
Note: Before choosing an audio track, you should analyze its audio content for tempo or adjust
the timing of audio material.
Have a Drummer region follow the rhythm of another track
1 Select a Drummer region in the Tracks area.
2 Select the Follow Rhythm checkbox in the Drummer Editor.
Because this behavior has an eect on the Kick and Snare portion of the beat, the Kick & Snare
pattern variation slider changes to the Follow Track pop-up menu.
Follow Rhythm checkbox
Follow Track pop-up menu
3 Choose a track from the Follow Track pop-up menu.
As with other track types, you can also match the timing of a Drummer track to the groove track.
For details, see Control timing with the groove track.