![]() ![]() ![]() Increase the resolution to 32nd notes and your 16 steps are playing at double the speed, so the pattern plays twice in the same bar. With 16 steps at 16th-note resolution, you get all 16 steps playing within the one bar, obviously. (You can make use of the little Quick Fill buttons that appear on the top right of the editor as rows of four boxes - these are super-handy, try them out!) This is best understood using a drum pattern, so, with a pattern inserted on an Impact XT track and a kit loaded, paint in 16 hi-hat steps plus a single kick drum on the first step so that you can identify the beginning of the pattern in the timeline. ![]() Changing the number of steps and the resolution will alter how your pattern is displayed in the timeline and also the speed at which the steps are played. The inserted pattern will default to being one bar long, with 16th-note resolution, so containing 16 steps. Click in the timeline where you want to put a pattern, select the track that it's for and hit Ctrl+Shift+P for instant pattern insertion. Ignore your desire to right-click or search around in menus: the Insert Pattern keyboard shortcut is the way to go. The process feels quite convoluted at first, because there's little connection or flow between patterns and instrument parts such as MIDI clips. The first hurdle to overcome is how to put a pattern onto your timeline. There are a few notions you need to get your head around in order to not find yourself befuddled by Studio One's pattern system. Pattern-based sequencing is most often used for drums, but as we'll see in this month's workshop, the Pattern Sequencer in Studio One can be just as easily directed to synthesizer and instrument sounds, and can very quickly generate something unexpected. It's simple and intuitive in a way that's reminiscent of the creative tools we've come to enjoy in hardware. It's one of those features that makes you wonder why every DAW doesn't already have it. Studio One 4 introduced pattern-based step sequencing as an alternative mode to the familiar piano-roll MIDI editor. The new pattern editor in Studio One 4 isn't just for drums! The latter are also reflected in the timeline (top). You can make a basic arpeggiated melody more interesting by messing with the probability and repeats parameters. ![]()
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