Programming "preset" Drum Patterns to switch withi

[mystic sAge]

I'm really digging the Drum Track feature for laying something down quick in the sequencer without hassles that kill inspiration.

But I'm wondering if there's a way to program the drum patterns within the Drum Track to change AFTER capturing a sequence that you really like.

Say the seq. is 64 bars and you want to switch to a different pattern at 32 bars, but you laid down the seq. with the same Drum Track pattern playing for all 64 bars ?

Can you go in afterwards and program that switch to happen ? If so, how ?

I like the Drum Track function, but I feel limited by the same pattern playing the whole time when there's so many more to choose from. I notice when you transform a program into a SEQ it places the drum track on midi ch. 10. It seems there should be a way to load in more drum patterns onto seperate midi tracks, & then edit and loop accordingly so that different ones start when others end -- drum machine style !!

Can't really find any answers in the manual about this. Pretty frustrating for such a great sounding keyboard!!

[Shakil]

Yes, you could do it using RPPR.

You would delete the track from 32 bar to end.
Then you can select the other DrumTrack pattern you want on a Key via RPPR
Then you can step record that key for 32 bars with full bar length for each step

[mystic sAge]

Thanks man!

Yeah, I figured it would be RPPR but wanted to ask to know for sure.

It seems you can assign different patterns to different keys and this way have several available to choose from whilst recording, kind of like loops on a sampler.

I thought I'd be able to record the RPPR performance live though in realtime record, ya know just press that key down at the appropriate time and the seq. records it.

So it has to be Step Record only ?

[Shakil]

No, it doesn't have to be step recorded.

If you want to capture the patterns to tracks, then you would turn on RPPR, arm the track for recording, and press the keys mapped to RPPR. This will 'print' the midi performance on to track. You would record this way if you have finalized the song and want to export it to DAW OR you want to customize each bar of the song with slightly different velocity to make it 'human like'.. or add ghost notes.... etc.

If you want 'playback' the RPRR, then you Step Record only the single notes that will trigger the patterns in realtime. You would turn on RPPR and play the sequencer, then the notes recorded in the step record with trigger the patterns in real time. The only notes recorded on the tracks are the single notes triggers. This way, if you wanted you could easily remap the same key with a different pattern, and it will play that new pattern.

It's up to you what you want to record, the pattern triggers or the actual performance.