Making Your Own Drumbeats: The Sequencer
The AdrenaLinn II has 100 factory drumbeats that cannot be changed, but also 100 editable user drumbeats. To make your own drumbeats, you�ll use the sequencer. Each drumbeat is comprised of 2 measures of either 1/8 notes, 1/8 triplets or 1/16 notes, depending on the setting of the drumbeat�s Timebase parameter. Each note is called a step. Each step contains: A Bass drum at one of 3 volume levels or off A Snare drum at one of 3 volume levels or off A Hihat note at one of one of 3 volume levels or off One of 3 percussion instruments at the same volume. Here�s how the drumbeat sequencer might look if it used real hardware sliders:
Editing the drumbeat sequence uses an alternate mode of the 8 x 4 parameter matrix in the center of the panel, where the 32 steps printed