Audio Damage Tattoo - Manual (Page 12)

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Probability Sliders: Selected Beats and Random Beats
The two sliders in the Channel Control section labeled Selected Beats and Random Beats determine the
probability or likelihood that Tattoo will play the instrument on any given step. These sliders let Tattoo
automatically create random variations of the current pattern.
The Selected Beats slider affects notes that you draw in the pattern grid. If the Selected Beats slider is set
all the way to the right, Tattoo behaves as you expect: it plays every note that you’ve drawn in the pattern
grid. As you move the slider to the left, Tattoo will sometimes refrain from playing notes. The position of the
slider determines how likely Tattoo is to play any given note. If you set the slider to its halfway point, Tattoo
will play each note that you’ve drawn in the pattern about half of the time. To put it another way, every time
Tattoo plays the pattern you’ll hear about half of the notes you’ve drawn. Which notes Tattoo plays and which
it leaves out are determined randomly each time the pattern plays. If you move the slider all the way to the
left, Tattoo will omit all of the notes you’ve drawn for the current instrument.
The Random Beats slider adds randomly chosen notes to the pattern for the current instrument. If the slider
is set to its leftmost position, Tattoo doesn’t add any notes to the ones you’ve drawn in the grid. As you move
the slider to the right, Tattoo will add more and more randomly chosen notes to the pattern. Its choice of
notes will change randomly each time the pattern plays.
RAND SIZE
Which notes Tattoo adds are also determined by the RAND SIZE popup menu. The RAND SIZE popup menu
sets the rhythmic value of the randomly chosen notes. The available values are 1/32 nd , 1/16 th , 1/8 th , 1/4 th , ½,
and 1/16 th and 1/8 th triplets. For example if you set the Random Beats slider to the middle of its range and
the RAND SIZE control to 1/8, Tattoo will play eighth notes on the current instrument about half of the time,
each time the pattern plays, regardless of any other notes that you have placed in the instrument’s row in the
pattern grid. If you move the slider all the way to the right, Tattoo will play a steady stream of eighth notes
(or whatever rhythmic value you’ve set with the
RAND SIZE control).
Note that the Selected Beats and Random Beats sliders have complementary functions: the Random
Beats slider causes Tattoo to add notes to the pattern while the Selected Beats slider causes Tattoo to
remove notes from the pattern.