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The Arranger track
Working with arranger events
You now have a number of arranger events that form the
basic building blocks for your arrangement. The next step
is to arrange these events using the functions of the Ar-
ranger Editor.
Creating an Arranger chain
You can set up an Arranger chain in the Arranger Editor or
in the Inspector for the Arranger track. The Arranger Editor
is opened by clicking the “e” button in the Inspector or in
the Arranger track.
To the right in the Arranger Editor, the available arranger
events are listed, in the order they appear on the time line.
To the left you find the actual Arranger chain, which shows
in which order the events will be played back, from top to
bottom, and how many times they should be repeated.
Initially the Arranger chain will be empty – you set up the
Arranger chain by adding events from the right list to the
Arranger chain. There are several ways to add events to
the Arranger chain.
• Double-clicking on the name of an event in the window
section on the right (or in the project window).
When an event is selected in the Arranger chain on the left will add the
event above the selected event. When no events are selected in the Ar-
ranger chain on the left will add the event to the end of the list.
• By selecting one or more events in the right list, right-
clicking and selecting “Append Selected In Arranger
Chain”.
This will add the selected events at the end of the list.
• By dragging and dropping arranger events from the
right list to the left list.
A blue insertion line shows you where the dragged event will end up in the
list.
Here, the Verse event is dragged into the Arranger chain and placed af-
ter the first chorus.
• By dragging arranger events from the Project window
and dropping them in the Arranger chain.
If you followed our example, you should now have arranger
events arranged in a very basic pop song pattern. How-
ever, we have used audio files that are only a few bars
long – to turn our pattern into a “song” (or at least into a
basic sketch of the song structure), these files must be
looped. This is where the Repeats function comes in.
If you want an event to repeat several times, proceed as
follows:
• Click in the Repeats field for an event, type in the de-
sired number of repeats and press [Enter].
When playing back the Arranger chain, the Counter column indicates
which repeat of this event is currently playing.
Click in the Inspector…
…or the Track list…
…to open the Arranger Editor.