26 Step Sequence Clips Video Lecture | Tracktion 5 Tutorial: Master Music Editing - Video & Sound Editing

in this video I'm going to show you how
to use the step sequence clip it's a
very unique clip particularly suited to
drum programming with MIDI it's also a
unique feature of traction so first I'm
going to configure my midi input mostly
so i can find the notes that i want i'm
going to enable X key just like I've
done before and then over here I need a
drum instrument so I'm just going to
find ezdrummer under plugins here type
in easy that will filter it out we'll
grab ez drummer and put it right here
that gives me ez drummer that's a time I
need to find thing the kick there is the
kick alright so I've got that working
I'm really going to just use this for
the sounds in this example and then the
next thing to do is to go to the clip
object and drag a blank clip right into
this track and drop it right here we're
going to choose insert a step sequence
clip and the step sequence clip looks
like this it sort of looped out and we
can either unroll the loop if we want
like this and what I want is just to get
one bar long of that and I'm going to
loop over this bar so I can click out
here on the second bar and hit oh that's
the keyboard shortcut to set the out
point and then turn them loop on if i
want so i can just play over that
alright so each of the rows here
represent a different note and we can
turn notes on and off within this grid
by clicking clicking will enable them
this note will play when it's dark like
that and it won't play when it's off
like that so we need to assign this to
drum sounds we can click over here on
the note number which is eight and that
opens up all these properties here so I
can adjust this to where it's set to the
same note as my kick like this so the c2
is my kick and then I've got the kick so
that if I want to put a snare may be
right here let's find the snare note i
click on seven
and then we'll find the snare a couple
different snare sounds i'll use that
snare sound and then from here i can
start to program my beat so if i want to
do a basic backbeat then i could just
put in the typical pattern for backbeat
while it's playing like that so it's a
really cool way to program a beat now
let's add a hi-hat so I'll click here
and then we'll look for a hi-hat sound
on six so i'll click here right on that
number six playback first of all I'll
look for the hi-hat sound which i think
is down here somewhere then we can also
look for the open hi-hat sound let's
just plan to put that in here somewhere
so we'll put this on five
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and that's basically how you use these
sequence clips there's a lot more to it
because you can assign each of these
rows to actually different drum
instruments if you wanted to of course
you don't even have to use drums it's
really cool to set this up with
arpeggios as well but anyway now that
I've got this in here then the overall
clip still works like other clips so if
you drag it out it's like a loop clip
you can see that I can stretch this out
and start to create my part by just
stretching this out over a number of
bars come out here and put in my end
marker for the loop put that there now
if I wanted to switch this up a little
bit I can just take this back here like
this I'm going to duplicate this I'll
use D to duplicate it and then on this
second cycle here I can mix it up a
little bit let's just move some of the
beats around slightly see what happens
or I can just do that for that one bar
grab this i'm going to hold down command
as i drag it in order to duplicate it
and i can really start to construct a
beat using this great visual step
sequencer mode now we've got that really
interesting thing here is once we've
done this we can use the mixer within
the drum instrument in order to get it
to sound the way you want so within here
you can set all of the things that the
balance of the drums the drum sounds
those are all available in any drum
instrument but once you've got it you
can render this down to a single audio
clip so I'll select the first one of
these I'll select the second one of
these and then down here we've got
render clips
so render selected clips and replace
them this works just like it does for
audio i'll hit render now just like that
I've rendered and created my own audio
clip from that drum beat this was really
a lot of fun because you can kind of use
your drum instruments get them into the
audio format now if I play this you're
not going to hear it
and that's because the audio is actually
coming from this instrument so you need
to mute this or remove this or move this
to a different clip what I would
probably do is just move this off to a
different clip or you can select the
drum instrument and hit F which bypasses
it essentially and after that we should
be able to hear this really cool I've
had a lot of fun with these sequence or
clips I think you'll really enjoy
working with the sequencer clips are
very unique to traction 5 thanks for
watching I'll see you in the next video