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track. What it does, when activated (see Config) is to pre-load sounds or
samples in to a pad as soon as you hilight them in the Open dialog box. This
means that any MIDI data coming in to that pad now triggers the new,
highlighted sound.
Typically, how you’d use it is to set up a pattern in your sequencer with
some basic sounds, run the sequencer, and then load new samples in to the
DR-008 as the sequencer runs.
Especially useful is the fact that the Open dialog box allows the use of the
keyboard arrow keys – you can scroll through a whole directory of samples
at the touch of a button, listening to them all in turn in the context of
your track.
Pressing the ‘Open’ button then confirms the loading of the currently
selected sample, and dismisses the dialog; the ‘Cancel’ button dismisses the
dialog and restores the old sound back to the pad.
3.2.1.4 Previewing an active pad
Left-clicking on an active pad will trigger the sound, the same as MIDI
trigger data from your sequencer or keyboard would. A Note-off message is
sent when you release the mouse button.
3.2.1.5 Modifying settings for an active pad
Right-clicking an active pad – that’s to say, one which has a module,
sample or preset loaded in to it – brings up the following menu.
Open/Close Editor toggles the popup editor window for that pad.
Presets pops up a menu showing all presets available for the
currently-loaded module in the Presets folder, and allowing you to
select a new preset for the module.
Name allows you to set the name of the pad.
Load - allows you to load a new wave or preset file in to the pad (see above).
Save - allows you to save the pad’s settings as a new preset (*.drs) file.
Objects pops up the same menu as you would get by rightclicking an empty pad.
Clear, Copy, Cut and Paste provide the standard Clipboard operations at pad
level; they work exactly as normal Windows clipboard functions.