{"id":15161,"date":"2002-07-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/?p=15161"},"modified":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","slug":"motif-drum-machine","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/motif-drum-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"How do use the Motif like a drum machine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want Motif to work like a drum machine here are some step by step tips. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Go to Pattern Mode and call up a blank pattern. <br \/>&#8211; Press F4 [Pattern Patch] You will see 16 Tracks and next to each track are two set of three dashes. <br \/>&#8211; Cursor to the left set of dashes, this is where you can select either Preset or User phrases to &#8220;Patch&#8221; in to your pattern. <br \/>&#8211; Press the increment button once so that Pre :001 appears in the screen. You have now selected the first phrase in a Preset bank of 128 drum patterns. <br \/>&#8211; If you cursor to the right and highlight 001, you can now increment to call up different phrases. Phrase 65 &#8211; 88 are all rock drum phrases. <\/p>\n<p>Lets&#8217; put phrase 65 on track 1. <\/p>\n<p>Now let&#8217;s press the section button so it&#8217;s LED is lit and press the B button. You will know see a blank Pattern patch. Repeat the process above, but &#8220;patch&#8221; in phrase 66. You know have two sections finished but you can have as many 16 sections with different patterns and call them up in real time. <\/p>\n<p>This is how Motif basically works like a drum machine. Here is tip for quickly creating your own phrases using the presets as a starting point. <\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s say you like the basic groove of Preset phrase 65, but want to change the snare. On the Pattern patch page, you can copy user or preset phrases. <\/p>\n<p>Press SF5[Copy] and it will select the currently highlighted preset phrase and you can copy it to a User location. Once it is a User phrase, you can press Rec, select overdub as the recording type and add new parts to the phrase. <\/p>\n<p>If you want to remove and change a particular sound ( in this case the snare), while the sequencer is running in Rec Mode, press and hold down the key the snare is on and the erase button [SF6]. This Erase feature lets you easily erase specific notes at specific times. <\/p>\n<p>You can continue to use preset phrases, copy presets to user phrase and modify them or just start from scratch if you want to build a complete Pattern Style with up to 16 sections and 256 phrases. <\/p>\n<p>When you have all your drum parts finished, you can arrange your song using the Section buttons and Pattern Chain. <\/p>\n<p>Push pattern chain [F6], and select the pattern style you have created and set the tempo. 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