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Selecting and editing a drum track – Arturia KeyStep Pro Keyboard with Advanced Sequencer and Arpeggiator User Manual

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5.4.3.3. Selecting and Editing a Drum Track

To select an individual Drum track/sound for editing, simply tap a key when in Drum mode

on Track 1. The LED above that key lights up continuously to indicate that this Drum track/

sound has been selected.

To select a Drum track/sound without generating a trigger and hearing a sound, hold down

the Track 1 Drum button and press the appropriate key.

At this point, step buttons will light up to display the active steps (existing trigger events) in

the selected Drum track of this Pattern. You can now use the step buttons to toggle steps

ON/OFF. If you want to edit the parameters of an individual step, hold down the Step Edit

button and press the appropriate step button, then use the main encoders to change that

step's Gate, Velocity, Time Shift and Randomness parameters.

: In Drum Edit mode, you cannot simultaneously change the parameters of multiple steps.

When using the Drum sequencer with a DAW, it may happen that the tracks of the Drum

sequencer do not match the sounds of the drum or percussion patch currently loaded

in the drum track of the DAW. For example, the DAW drums may be mapped from C3

upward. If you play C2 on the KeyStep Pro keyboard, there will be no sound because

there's nothing to trigger. You can solve this either by remapping the sounds in the drum

or percussion patch in your DAW (consult the manual of the DAW or virtual instrument to

discover how to do this) or by selecting another chromatic low note in the KeyStep Pro using

Utility>DrumMap>Config>Chromatic Low Note or in the MIDI Control Center.

If you want to fix this at a deeper level, you can create your own custom Drum mapping

in Utility>DrumMap>Config>Custom. This Utility setting enables you to map each key on the

KeyStep Pro to a specific drum (MIDI note number) in your DAW. The MIDI Control Center

has a similar feature if you prefer to work from there.

! You cannot assign two slots to the same note.

Last but not least: the lowest eight keys on your keyboard – for Drum tracks 1-8 – are

mapped to the Drum Gate outputs on the back panel of the KeyStep Pro. These Drum Gates

are intended to trigger modules in an external (Eurorack) modular system. Please refer to

Chapter 10 [p.167]

for more details on how to do this.

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