Play drums and adjust kit piece settings

Play drums and adjust kit piece settings

Drum Machine Designer shows a grid representation of the electronic drum kit for the currently loaded patch. Each cell represents a drum kit piece.

You can play the drums, mute and solo kit pieces, and edit a number of settings for each kit piece. You also have access to different microphones, such as overheads or room mics.

Play a drum or kit piece

  • Click a drum or kit piece.

Mute a kit piece

  • Place the pointer over the drum cell, then click the M button that appears.

    Figure. Drum Machine Designer showing a muted kit piece.

The muted cell is dimmed.

Solo a kit piece

  • Place the pointer over the drum cell, then click the S button that appears.

    Figure. Drum Machine Designer showing a soloed kit piece.

All other cells are dimmed.

Edit the sound of the drum kit

  1. Click the plug-in header area.

    Figure. Drum Machine Designer plug-in header area.

  2. Open the Smart Controls area, then adjust screen controls to change one or more parameters for the drum kit.

Edit the sound of a kit piece

  1. Click the kit piece that you want to edit.

  2. Open the Smart Controls area, then adjust screen controls to change one or more parameters for the kit piece.

    Figure. Drum Machine Designer showing Kick 1 smart controls.

Reorder kit pieces

  • Drag to move a kit piece.

This affects the visual display but has no effect on playback.