Plug-in Reference

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MIDI Effects
Beat Designer
You can trigger the patterns in the Beat Designer using Note On events. These can
either be events on a MIDI track or be played live via a MIDI keyboard. Which pattern
is triggered depends on the pitch of the MIDI notes. The trigger range is four octaves
starting with C1 (that is, C1 to B4).
Proceed as follows:
1. Open the Beat Designer for a track.
Again, this can be a MIDI or an instrument track.
2. Click the Jump field to activate Jump mode.
In this mode, a MIDI note-on event triggers a new pattern.
• When you want to trigger the patterns using a MIDI part containing trigger events,
you can specify whether the pattern is switched directly (at the moment the event
is received) or at the next bar: Click on the field to the right (where it says “Now”)
to activate the immediate switching of patterns. When Now is deactivated,
patterns switch at the beginning of the next bar in the project.
• When you want to trigger the patterns live via a MIDI keyboard, the new patterns
are always played when the next bar in the project is reached.
Switching immediately would always produce an undesirable interruption in
playback.
Now, you can trigger the patterns in the following way:
1. Play back the project and press a key on your MIDI keyboard to trigger the next
pattern.
The pattern starts at the next bar line.
2. Create a MIDI part and enter notes at the positions in the project where you want
to switch patterns.
Depending on the Jump mode setting, the new pattern is played directly, or starts
at the following bar.
• You can also drag a pattern or subbank into the Project when Jump mode is active
to automatically create MIDI parts containing the trigger events.
Ö When triggering a pattern that contains sound before the first step (due to flams or
lane offsets), these are taken into account as well.
Jump mode is activated.