Layering pad sounds

podpad (20) I thought I might share the discovery I made this afternoon. I realise that there are members on this forum that have 19:02 GMT way more experience with the F8 than I 18 October do and will find what I am going to 2009 describe very simplistic, but I thought I would share it anyway, because its a great live effect. I would like to allocate different modes to the pads so I can trigger samples with pads 5,6,7,8 and trigger drum phrases with 1,2,3,4, but all at the same time. I was told that this was not possible on the G8. I am running a live performance where a drum track is running and switches throughout the performance with different variations, each triggered with a different pad. I have samples which have been allocated to the top octave, each key playing a different sample. At certain points in the performance I need to layer samples over what I am playing on the keybed, and at the same time add a drum fill. So instead of playing, hitting a pad to add the fill, then reaching to the top octave to add the sample, I created a drum fill

which triggered the sample as well. Certain pads where setup to keep the drums running with a fill but also trigger the sample. The sample was setup so it latched and played in full even when the pad was released, so if the pad was tapped quickly twice or changed to another fill set on another pad the original sample would keep playing. The effect is like splitting the pads, so a drum track can keep playing with triggered variations but samples also triggered as if they were independent of the underlying drums. Just thought I would share this. Reply Hi podpad, Andy Keys (794) Moderator 10:41 GMT 19 October 2009 This sounds neat. Do you have any examples of this in action that you could post as mp3's here? How do you set the pad so that the drum loop changes when you press another pad, but the sample plays through to the end regardless? I thought each pad could only have one setting, but I may have misunderstood you? Andy Reply podpad (20) Hi,

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The way I set the pads up was\; 1. create a live set, 1,2,4,5,6,7 set as patches Ch 3 set as sample and ch8 set as rhythm 2. with the pads set in sample mode I navigate to a sample set I had created and allocate pads to samples These samples also had key allocation in the top octave of the keyboard. All the samples where set to trigger mode 'Drum' not gate, this way the sample will continue to sound even if another pad is hit. 3.switch the pad mode to PTN and set up the drum phases I needed. My main drum phrases were not set to trigger samples, only fills were set to trigger samples. When I created the drum phrases I created fills that would strike certain keys in the top octave, hence trigger the sample. when I now run the drum phrases triggered from the pads certain pads will also trigger samples. If for example I have a main drum phrase running I can hit a fill pad which will also trigger a sample and quickly hit another pad to continue with the drum pattern. Because the sample is set to trigger and play in full, even when the other drum pattern kicks in the sample continues to play. It is a very useful effect.

I am guessing you could do the same with arps and chords allocated to one key or a pad. Reply Andy Keys (794) Thanks for the explanation. Sounds Moderator interesting. I'll have a play and see if this is possible on the Fantom X. 11:54 GMT 20 October 2009 Cheers Andy Reply