Chapter 4: Tutorial: Advanced Drum Kit

In this lesson, we will create a full drum kit that will utilize many of the Editor’s advanced features. Since this is a drum kit, all of the mapping will be “drag and drop” using the right mouse button (remember that dragging with the right mouse button disables Pitch Tracking on the samples that you map). The drum kit will illustrate:

Multiple velocities

Stereo and mono regions

A MIDI controller dimension for hi-hat open and close

A MIDI controller dimension for turning snares on and off

Self-masking on the cymbals to save polyphony

Lowpass velocity-controlled filters on the toms and bass drum

The first thing to do is to create a new instrument.

Import all the Tutorial Drum Kit folders into the Sample window. These can found in the “Editor Tutorial Files” directory for this chapter (How To Map Samples:

Advanced).

In the Instrument window you can name the instrument to “Tutorial Drum Kit”.

You can also delete the “Default Sample” folder to keep the Sample window from getting too cluttered. The final result should look like the screen shot at left.

Now we are ready to start creating a drum kit.

Kick Drum

The Kick Drum has four velocities of mono samples.

We will create two identical regions of the Kick Drum for a left-right playing style (like a double kick setup). To do this, we will complete the first region and then copy and paste it to create the second one.

There will also be a low pass filter controlled by velocity so that the tone is dark when played soft and gets brighter the louder it is played. This combined with the four-way velocity split makes for a smooth and realistic transition from soft to loud.

We will also adjust the Release Time of the Kick Drum.

1.In the Preferences, set the velocity split count for manually created regions to 4.

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