User manual M-AUDIO DRUM AND BASS RIG

[. . . ] Drum and Bass Rig · User Guide Congratulations on your purchase of the M-Audio Drum and Bass Rig software. This multi-function device includes 4 instruments: · · · · The LC-5 Loop Creator creates tempo-synced rhythms from preloaded audio files. The BL-6 Bassline is a subtractive synth combined with a step sequencer. The RD-7 Real Drum Module features over 100 realistic drum sounds arranged to follow the GM Drum Map standard. [. . . ] Learn: select this option and move a control on your hardware MIDI controller to assign it to the parameter automatically. Forget: select this option to remove a MIDI continuous controller assignment. Note: Each continuous controller may control only one parameter at a time. Instrument Controls To the right of all instruments in the Drum and Bass Rig is an instrument control area and mixer. Load/Save: in addition to the global Load/Save menus at the top of the Rig, each instrument has its own Load/Save menu and library of patches. Clicking the area above the Load and Save buttons produces a drop-down list of all factory content for an instrument. Patches can be loaded for the instrument by clicking a patch in the drop-down list. Patches are loaded and saved into folders with a name corresponding to the particular instrument chosen. Hi/Lo: sets the highest and lowest notes for the instrument's key range. Tr: transposes the instrument by any amount within a range of plus or minus 24 semitones. MFX: sets the send level for the instrument to the MFX (master effects) at the top of the Rig. Volume: the slider on the right-hand side of the instrument controls section controls the instrument volume. A meter displays output level when the instrument is played. 6 Drum and Bass Rig · User Guide LC-5 Loop Creator The LC-5 Loop Creator is a sliced loop player that includes 23 sets of 12 pre-sliced loops. These loops can be freely assigned to the keys of your MIDI keyboard (three octaves between C2 and B4), combined (by playing multiple MIDI keys), rearranged, and edited in many ways. The range (C2-B4) is chosen for ease of use with smaller M-Audio keyboards, which have the lowest C on C2. As a convenience, the C2-B4 ranges are duplicated above (C5-B7) and below (C-1-B1), but it's important to note that these are simply the same zones repeated and therefore any edits made in these zones affect the same key in other zones. In the middle of the LC-5 is a waveform window displaying the slices of the selected loop. In this waveform inspector are three yellow buttons: "Low, " "Mid" and "High. " These allow you to mute or play slices belonging to low, mid or high frequency ranges. Below the waveform display is a "sawtooth" keyboard allowing you to play keys (loops) via mouse and to select which key (loop) you wish to edit. The highest C on the keyboard is a stop key. LC-5 Master Section These controls affect all loops in the LC-5 patch. Punch: Punch is a special compression algorithm, which accentuates attacks and makes the lower dynamic information louder. Turning to the right quantizes while turning to the left accentuates the natural timing of the loops. Latch: with Latch mode enabled, all triggered loops/notes play continuously until the Latch is turned off or the "Stop" key is used. Loop Edit The six knobs and three menus on the left of the LC-5 are edit parameters for individual loops within a patch. [. . . ] Decay: shortens the decay and release time of the selected instrument or set. Pan: sets the stereo panorama position of the selected instrument or set. FX: each preset kit has a preprogrammed special effect, which is not editable. These are mostly additional reverbs but sometimes distortion or modulation, etc. [. . . ]