Thursday, February 21, 2013

Tutorial 7 THE PLAYLIST (Part 1)


Once you have all the instruments (samples) you want in the Step Sequencer, or at least some of them to start with, then you need something to organize the whole thing: The Playlist (F5)

The Playlist is where you give real shape to your song. As a rule, you don’t use all the samples at the same time, sometimes you want to stop using a specific sound or use it again later on the song. Of course, this cannot be done from the Step Sequencer or the Piano Roll. The tool for this purpose is The Playlist, lust like the director of the orchestra determining who is going to sing and when, and who is going to remain silent. To do this operation we´ll need to separate one sound from another in different tracks. After we have achieved this part we can decide where to locate the sounds within our song. First you have to pick which sample or group of samples you want to define for each track.