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muscarella
Total Posts: 542
Joined 11-01-2003 status: Guru |
I have a SONG. It’s all mixed and sounding how I like it. I’ve Split to Pattern the whole Song as Pattern 1, Section A. Section B I’ve Split to Pattern 1, but only the main groove for soloing over in a loop. Works fine, sounds fine. For Section C I’ve Split to Section C, the bridge/turn around of the song, also for soloing over. These five measures have a Horn Section (Tracks 11 thru 14). For Section D of the Pattern I’ve Split only the last Verse and Ending. Since Section B and C are for soloing over, I want to lose the Horns in Section C, just keep the bass, drums, piano comping. I went into the Mix of Section C and cleared Tracks 11-14 only to find that I’d also now cleared those same Parts from All the Sections, A,B & D. Put it all back, tried just Muting, Volume Only. Same problem. Thinking I’d outwit the machine, I went back to Song mode, moved just those five Bridge measures to a separate Song slot, cleared the horn parts in that Mix, Saved it, then Split it over to the Pattern/Section C. All my Sections lose the Horn tracks. Is there no way to achieve what I want? Or am I missing a step somewhere along the line? |
jazz.preest
Total Posts: 263
Joined 06-06-2013 status: Enthusiast |
Muscarella, I believe you want to work in the Pattern mode, not the Mixing mode. In general, each PATTERN SECTION does not have its own MIX, the entire PATTERN (as well as SONG) has a MIX that all SECTIONs share. So when you “clear"(i.e. initialize) tracks, the entire PATTERN (and all its SECTIONs) is impacted. AS I understand it, you want the “horns” not to play while you are solo’ing over the SECTION C backing tracks; in other words, you want the horn players to rest during this section of the sheet music.
* Get into the PATTERN mode, not the MIXING mode associated with the PATTERN
* Activate the PATTERN SECTION you want, e.g. SECTION C
Press [BUTTON 3] (SECTION C when PATTERN SECTION button is lit)
* Activate the PATTERN Patch grid
* Clear the patches from the tracks 11-14
Repeat for Tracks 12-14 Press [STORE],[ENTER],[ENTER]You should be good to go.
A few thoughts:
Clear as mud, more than likely, but what the hey. Cheers :) |
muscarella
Total Posts: 542
Joined 11-01-2003 status: Guru |
Wow. Ok. Thanks. I will try it that way. Don’t use Pattern too often and don’t quite understand the architecture. Yes, I want my Horns to rest during Section C. Will report back. |