User Manual

Strike Plug-in Guide16
To display a control’s current value:
■ Click the control without moving the mouse.
Playing Strike
There are two MIDI Trigger modes and corre-
sponding Keyboard layouts when using Strike:
Style mode and Kit mode.
Style Mode
In Style mode, input on MIDI channel 1 con-
trols Strike playback. In Style mode there are
three functional keyboard zones, marked by
color:
Pause Zone The yellow Pause keys, ranging
from C0 to B0, pause an Instrument’s playback.
Click a key to pause the Instrument, click again
to resume playback. The number on the Pause
key indicates the channel of the paused Instru-
ment. A red LED indicates that an Instrument is
paused. There are two additional Pause modes -
Held and Released. Please see “Configuration
Window” on page 37 for more Information on
Pause modes.
Play Zone The black and white Play keys, rang-
ing from C1 to B3, play the Patterns of the cur-
rently selected Style. A special key in this zone is
the red Stop button, it immediately stops the
playback until another Play key is pressed.
Assignable Trigger Zone The blue Trigger keys,
ranging from C4 to B5, trigger single Instrument
hits, letting you use Strike like a drum module.
Instruments used in the currently selected Kit
can be freely assigned to Trigger keys.
To assign an Instrument to a Trigger key:
1 Right-click (Windows or Mac) or Control-click
(Mac) the key.
2 Select an Instrument from the pop-up menu.
Pattern Types
Patterns are variations of the drum performance
within a Style. A Pattern is the Strike counter-
part to a drum loop (a repeating phrase played
on multiple Instruments) but not limited to a
loop’s typical static behavior. There are six types
of Patterns in the Play zone serving different
purposes in an arrangement:
Intro Located on the black keys from C#1 to
A#1.
Verse Located on the white keys from D1 to B1.
Fill Located on the black keys from C#2 to A#2.
Bridge Located on the white keys from C2 to B2.
Chorus Located on the white keys from C3 to
B3.
Outro Located on the black keys from C#3 to
A#3.
The Display does not show parameter val-
ues of incoming automation.
Selecting an Instrument from the pop-up menu
Intros, Fills, and Outros behave differently,
depending on the Fill Triggering settings in
the Configuration window. Please see “Con-
figuration Window” on page 37 for more
information.