User Guide

Chapter 29 Ultrabeat 597
Switching the Step Grid to Full View
Clicking the Full View button in Ultrabeat’s lower right corner switches the synthesizer
controls to a large grid filled with trigger buttons. The large grid displays the 32 trigger
buttons for each of the 25 drum sounds simultaneously—independent of the currently
selected sound.
As usual the selected sound is visible in the step sequencer area so that you can set the
velocity and gate time for each step as well as offsets in Step mode. This means that
the sequencer lane of the selected drum sound is represented in both the full view grid
and the sequencer lane. Both the grid and the sequencer lane are active for the
selected drum sound, so you can, for example, create trigger events quickly in the full
view grid, then set accents in the sequencer lane.
Step Mode
Setting the Edit Mode switch to Step mode engages Ultrabeat’s step automation
feature. Step automation lets you program parameter changes per step for each drum
sound. You can automate as many of the parameters available for automation per step
as you want.
The sound parameters that can be edited per step include all functions of the
Synthesizer section, except the menus (modulation routings and so on), buttons
(oscillator type buttons, the buttons in the trigger/group section), and Pan/Spread
parameters.