A couple of hot tips—Wave sequencing and triggering loops

[tranel]

Just thought I'd share these (some of you wizards may already have figured them out though....)

Wave sequencing on the TEX

Or at least "simulated" wave sequencing. Create a patch with four velocity layers (four different waveforms, each set to a different "velocity zone") and make sure that velocity does not modulate the patch's amplitude.

Then, create an arpeggio pattern for this patch, and remember the velocity zones you used for the different waveforms. Now, in the arpeggiator, by adjusting the velocity for each step, you can "choose" the waveform that will be used for that step. I have had some very cool results with this!


Triggering loops

Make a custom drum kit. It is easiest if you simply set all the drum zones to RAM (empty sample slot) and leave them empty, so that the kit is completely empty except for the loops you want to trigger. You can use the Copy Key function for this (at least I think that's what it's called...).

Go to your sample library and load the loops you want to trigger. In the sampler, make sure that they play the right BPM (as the TEX sadly does not automatically adjust loop length to tempo).

Load the loops into the drum kit, just like you would with any other drum sample. Go to the Voice/Mixer tab and check Single Trigger and Enable Note Off Receive. The loops you trigger will now stop and be retriggered each time you press the key, rather than using decay time to fade away when you release the key.

Save the drum kit. Go to Patch mode and create a new drum kit patch using the new kit, and make sure that the amplitude EG is completely square, with sustain and everything else set to 99. Release should be set to 00. If you do this, as you hold down the key to trigger the loop, the volume will stay constant. This is not the same as using a long decay time for the drum sample—if you do that, it will drop in volume over time.

By loading loops into a dedicated drum kit in this way, you can have separate effect/pan/low-pass filter settings for each loop—very cool. In the sequencer, set the effect bus for the loop track to Dkit.

Also, if you remove velocity modulation for amplitude in the drum kit patch itself, you can use velocity to trigger different loops!

[elevated]

Brilliant stuff... these both really got me thinking..

Do you have a sound recording I can hear using either of these tricks?