Plug-in Reference

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MIDI Effects
Beat Designer
The Swing Setting
This parameter can be used to create a swing or shuffle rhythm, which allows you to
add a more human feel to drum patterns that might otherwise be too static. This is
done by offsetting every second drum step for a lane. If a triplet step resolution is
used, every third drum step is offset instead.
In the lower right section of the Beat Designer panel, you can find two Swing sliders.
Dragging a slider to the right delays every second or third drum step in the pattern.
Dragging to the left makes them play a little earlier.
You can set up two swing settings with these sliders and then quickly switch between
these during playback. By default, the first swing setting is activated for all lanes, but
the slider is set to zero (middle position).
• Drag the upper fader to set swing setting I and the lower fader to set swing
setting
II.
You can switch between the two swing settings using the Swing buttons to the right
of the step display.
• Click the buttons to select the corresponding swing setting, or click on a selected
button to deactivate swing for this lane.
Adding Flams
The Flam parameter lets you add flams, that is, short secondary drum hits just before
or after the actual main drum beat.
You can add up to three flams for each pattern step:
1. Click in the lower left corner of the step you want to add a flam to.
Little squares appear in the step when you point with the mouse at the step. After
you clicked, the first square becomes filled to indicate that you added a flam.
2. Click again to add the second and third flam, if needed.
3. In the lower left section of the Beat Designer panel you can make settings for the
flams you created.
• The first Position slider specifies the flam position for all steps containing one
single flam, the second slider the flam positions for all steps containing two flams,
and the third slider the flam position for all steps containing three flams.
• Drag a Position slider to the left to add the flams before the drum step and to the
right to add them after the step.
Click here to add up to three
flams to the step.
With these sliders, you can specify the velocity for the separate flams.
Here, you can specify the flam positions for all steps
containing one, two and three flams, respectively.