![]() Experiment with adding equally wonky kick and snare notes to embellish the pattern. This will instantly give your beat a lazy or ‘wonky’ feel. For example, take the hi-hats and nudge them to the right until the second of each pair of hi-hats starts to line up with the third triplet of each beat (Screen 2). There are other ways to introduce more of a triplet feel to your pattern that are worth taking some time to explore. If you set the Division setting to ‘1/12’ when achieving an eighth-note triplet feel you will see that, when at the maximum Swing setting, each hi-hat falls very close to the first and third triplet of each beat (Screen 1 above). As you move the slider, hear how it adjusts the eighth-note quantise from straight eighths towards a triplet feel. In the Piano Roll, select all of the drum events and go across to the Time Quantise area and gradually move the Swing slider from 0 to 100. Now that we have our straight eighth groove, let’s look at some different ways to transform the feel of the groove. ![]() You can hear this and the rest of the examples by downloading the zip file in the right-hand sidebar or listening to the inline media players. Now draw in a simple kick and snare pattern - kick on beat one and three, snares on two and four. When using the Smart Snap setting your editing actions will intelligently snap to 1/16th notes. This will set the divisions in the Piano Roll grid. Next, go up to the Control Bar and set the Division to 1/16. Set the Time Quantise value to ‘1/8 Note’ and use the Brush Tool by holding down Command then click and drag along the hi-hat row to draw in a line of eighth notes. The Brush Tool will input notes at the Time Quantise setting in the Piano Roll inspector. From the Tools menu set your left-click to be the Pointer Tool (useful for editing note positions) and your Command-click as the Brush Tool (handy for quickly drawing in hi-hat patterns). Create a blank Region and double-click on it to open the Piano Roll editor. For this example, I am using the Sunset Kit. Create a new software instrument track and, from the Media Browser, load one of the Drum Kit Designer kits. Start by programming a basic eighth-note drum beat at 92 bpm. Let’s begin this month’s column with some simple ways to make an eighth-note drum pattern more interesting, and then move on to other time divisions, working our way up from triplets to quintuplets and beyond. Programme wonky drum beats by using different grid divisions and quantisation settings. This can clearly be seen when setting the grid to display triplets by setting the Division to 1/12 and then applying the maximum Swing setting to the eighth-note hi-hat part. Published March 2017 Screen 1: As you increase the Swing value your notes will take on more of a triplet feel.
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