2012 (Macintosh)

Chapter 11: User Programmable Functions 154
A typical pattern may look like this:
This pattern is in a timebase of 12, you see 4 beats with 4 divisions per beat.
(In a Timebase =12, only the first three divisions of each beat are accessible.)
The numbers are velocities. Move around the Drum Pattern screen and type in
the numbers as above. These are velocities and should range between 0 and
127. The fastest way to put the numbers onto the screen is to use the hot keys
on the bottom row of the typewriter keyboard - XCVBNM,. or the velocity
buttons, 0, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110, 120 and 127 at the bottom right of the
Drum Pattern Entry screen.
Using Alternate Drum Notes
What are alternate notes? Alternate notes can be entered for any note. This tells
Band-in-a-Box to randomly choose a different note to the one specified. For
example:
- you might want a note to be a closed high hat 80% of the time, and an open
high hat 20% of the time.
- you might want a note to be high conga 60% and low conga 40% of the
time, or
- high tom 30% of the time and NO note the other 70%
This allows one drum pattern to sound like many, because it will be played
different ways depending on which of the notes are picked.
How to put in an alternate note:
From the Drum Pattern Entry screen, press the [EDIT] button.
This displays the Alternate Drum Notes dialog box.
Select the Alternate Drum
Note type, such as Open
High Hat or Bass Drum,
from the Alternate Note
drop down menu. When
you exit the box, you will
see that the box has a
border indicating that an
alternate note is located
there.
Playing the Drum Patterns
Play the drum pattern by pressing the [PLAY] button.