Hi Boys and Girls.<br><br>Time for another tutorial.<br>This time were going for a very commercial and typical dance sound. This tutorial is going to be bit long and a bit more difficult. And only too right at this point. It’s time to start stepping up the level of these tutorials from now on, and I intend to bring this right to the limit over time. Consider this as the introductory tutorial to other and better tricks. Why ??…Because your going to have to use everything that was in all the other tutorials plus a few new things to pull this tutorial off. And just to really get everyone going. Your going to do this is step record mode and event edit mode. <br><br><br>Step 1: The Drums.<br>Select your preferred drum kit, and set Track 1 2 and 3 to the same kit.<br>Now go to page 5, and from the pull down menu select “Step Recording”. This will bring you into the Step recording mode for “Track 1”. Set the Velocity to 127 and the note value to
Now press the Bass Drum Key 4 times. And press “Done”. Change the highlighted track to 2 please. And again enter back into step record mode. The note we neet to use will be remembered from the last settings, so press “rest”. Then press the Snare Drum Key once, then followed by “Rest” and the Snare Drum Key once more. Press Done. Change the selected track to 3 now please, and enter back into the step record mode again. This time please set the note value to
and press the closed hi hat key once. Now change the note value to
and press the closed hi hat key twice. Now please repeat the above two steps 3 more times. So your going to program in a hi hat beat that looks exactly like this <br>
<br><br>Press done to exit.<br>Please play back your sequence now and you call hear out drum loop playing back. NOTE: At any time in Step mode if you press the wrong key, simply press the “Back Step” button to undo your mistake. <br><br>Right, now that we have our Loop running. Please loop Measure 1 so the loop will continue playing. Once that’s done, please adjust all 3 tracks volume to your own taste, this will allow you to get the balance right. Once your happy..lets move on to the bass track.<br><br>Step 2: The Bass.<br>Select your favourite bass sound for track 4 and then go to page 5 and enter the “Step Recording” Mode to record the bass track. Set the note value to
and the C1 Key (it’s the lowest note on the 61 key Triton). Now set the note value to
and press C2 twice. Please repeat those two steps 3 more times to program in the following pattern. <br>
<br><br>When finished press done to exit, and please listen to what you’ve just programmed. You should still have the loop set, so what you programmed will stay constantly playing. Great…time to move on again.<br><br><br>Step 3: The Gate.<br>Please copy the contents of your Hi Hat Track into track 5.<br>Once you have that done, from the pull down menu enter into the Event Edit mode. You should see all the notes you played for the bass track on the screen for Track 5. You not need to change every note you see on the screen to a CC# Value. And we need to change it to CC#07 So touch the note on the screen, and enter in 129 on the key pad, on the Trinity this will change the Note to CTRL, it should be the same for the Triton, but if it’s not, start at 127 and keep going up until you find the number that does get you directly to CTRL. When you have it to CTRL set the C:000 to C:007 and the volume Value from 000 to Value 127. Now do that for every single note you see on the screen. When completed press done. <br><br>Please copy the contents of Track 5 into track 6, and go back into the Event Edit mode on Track 6. Now change all the 127 Volumes to 40. We now need to add the offbeat of the Gate effect so where you see BT 01:000 and a load of other values under it, you need to add 00.030 to each one of those, so off you go add 00.030 to each one. When completed, press Done. Finally using the bounce track feature bounce track 6 into 5 to merge your CC# data. To show you what you just did, select Track 5 and press the start button. You should only hear the drum track and the Bass track. Play the Chord of C. Cool or what ?? you have the same famous gate effect programmed that it will do whatever you do. Now go back to track 6 and record a C chord for the full measure, and bounce it into track 5 to perfectly mix the chord with the CC data.<br><br>Step 4: The rift.<br>Lets keep this dead simple. Using Track 7 and “Step Recording” set the note value to
and the Note Length to 40. Once you have that done, play C3 then C4. Please repeat that 7 more times. When completed press done. You should select something like a saw wave for this sound. ( you can expand in this if you want )<br><br>Step 5: Finishing touches.<br>Effects, effects, effects. Yes…go nuts and add what every you like to your short little sequence. But here’s a tip. The MFX…set the Hi Gain to +4.5 and the Low to +3.0.<br>Also use the Stereo 7 Band Graphic on the drum kit, and set the 80Hz to +3.5, 220Hz to +6.5, 6.3Khz to 3.5 and 16Khz to +4.<br><br><br>THE END.<br>
<br><br>* Where it says make the measure 1 loop, you do that from Page 0 on the Preferences tab by enabling the option called Loop All Tracks.<br><br>* Where it says entering 129 in Event Edit will change the note message to a control message, it does indeed do that.<br><br>* When entering the chord for the gate, a C minor chord is the chap to use.<br><br>* When entering the notes for the bassline, the lowest C note on the Triton 61 came up as C2 on my machine.<br><br>Here is what the tutorial sounds like if anyone is interested :<br><br>
<br><br>If anyone needs a .sng, I can give you one if you like, although they may defeat the purpose of the exercise possibly.<br><br>Daz.
-Tim<br>
