#6 - Adding beats to the mix

Based on the past tutorials we should now have a solid bass line playing.

But - how about some drums?

Proceed to the Machines view, add a drumsampler machine and connect it to the network:

 As the name says this is a drum sampler, which actually means in this case that it is a drum machine that plays back pre-created sound samples. That in turn means we gotta have samples for it to play, so proceed to the samples view:

 This view is basically a list of sample positions, which are empty at this stage.

We want to load a bass drum sample to position 00. So click on the "load" bugtton on the right on the "00" line. Now the view will change to a list of sample directories. This may contain a row with "Drums", "Keyboard" and "Pads" which is the default.

Since we want to load a drum sound, we press the ">"-button on the right of "Drums". This will bring us the list of samples available in that directory:

From this view you can either "load" a sample, or "play" a sample. The latter is useful if you want to hear what it sounds like before you load it. The aim was to load the "BassDrum.wav", so click on load on that row.

Next - repeat the same procedure for row 01, but this time - select the "ClosedHiHat.wav" sample.

Then - Press the "Compose" button to get to the "Compose" view:

 Another row is now visible in the sequencer! WOW! Place the selector on the first entry on the new line, then press the zero button:

 Then press and hold the first entry on the new line:

 Then add notes like this, make sure you have scrolled to position 00!

When using the drum sampler it is important to understand that any "C-" note, like "C-3" will play the sample stored on position zero (bass drum). Any "C#" note will play sample position 1 (hi hat), and that any "D-" will play position number 2, which currently is empty.

Please note - that for the bassdrum to be heard properly you will have to turn up the volume for it. To do this, go to the machines view, tap on the "DrumSampler", tap it again to get to the settings. Select "Sample Volume" from the drop down menu. Set the "sampleVolumeC-" to 4.0 which is a good value to try out.

Play around with the drum sampler for a while.

If you want to remove a note, press and hold it.

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