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A while ago I bought a second-hand Le and have spent ever since trying to get it to work. I've worked my way through both the Basic Guide and the Parameter Guide, and can now safely say it does pretty much everything I want it to do.

I'm using it in my band, a U2 tribute. Besides the obvious piano parts (New Years Day etc) , the Le's primary task is to play loops/sequences etc. For some songs, like With Or Without You, I use a sample that plays throughout the song. Naturally, it is crucial that our drummer stays in the right tempo. So, I've manually added a click-track to it (taken from g001d).. Now here is what I want, and what seems impossible ... I want the main sample (on track 1 in the sequencer) to play mainly on the left channel, and the drum track (track #2) exclusively on the right channel. This way, I can hook the left (mono) channel to the P/A, and the right to the drummer's monitor.

First thing I did was to go to the mixing page in the sequencer and adjust the pan. This works for the sample, I can get it to play exclusively on the left channel. But whatever I do to the drum track, it always sounds on the left channel as well. My guess is that this is because the left channel acts as a mono channel, becuase when I listen trhough headphones, it is panned to the right channel as it should.

Is there some way I can get the drum to output to R exclusively? Or, even better, can I get it to output to Bus 1 or 2?

Absolutely you can assign the drums to either output 1 or output 2. In Combi or Seq Mode, just press Menu, select F7 and select IFX. At 7.1 you will see all the tracks set to L/R. Highlight the "L/R" of the drum track you want to send to somewhere other than the main L/R. Rotate the knob and it will show you the other places you can send that track. Plug a 1/4" jack into the output you have sent the track and you will hear only that track on that output (and you won't hear it on the L/R bus. Save the Combi.

Enjoy.

Hobson

Thanks for the answer. I have been toying in that area, and got it work for one of my songs. The others however, still play on L/R - I think it has to do with the type of FX used (mono FX apparently overrule this setting).

Wow! you use samples for that tune? What a feat! My band does the same tune and I've plugged the whole thing in to my TR. I simply play bass (guitar) and the click goes to the drummer through my #2 out. All the strings, extra guitar sounds ... come through my TR. Sounds great ... but it was a lot of work.

Yeah, I have sampled the soft bells/drum loop that the song starts off with, and it just loops throughout the complete song. I figured out the bpm for the tune, and created a drum track that sounds similar to the original. This drum track goes to the drummer through ind-#1, the audience only hears the sample through L/R.

Works great. I use the same trick for Bad, One, Where the streets have no name, Beautiful Day.

And OT: I have got it working now for all samples. All of them now play the sample on L/R, and the drum track on ind #1, which is exactly what I want. I love this thing.