Drum Machine Preview

Cubase
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Hi, just trying out the Drum Machine added in C14. When it opens you get 16 pads on the left and amongst other stuff sample icons from kick to sample. Clicking on each icon gives you multiple samples underneath based on your selection. I was expecting to click each sample and hear a preview, instead it assigns it to the next available pad. It does that without even previewing. It may swell just be a random sample as you have to click each pad (or use midi keyboard) to hear the sample. Surely this is not the way it should work?
Surely click once to preview and double click or drag to assign?
Also I was really hoping for a sample manager to be built in and open in the media window on the right. I’ve checked a couple of videos and they just skip this.

On the subject of the media window, how come every time I open I can’t hear previews?
I don’t use control room as just a single user in home studio.
I usually find a way to hear previews and then next time I start a new project nothing.

thanks for advice if any.

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Plot twist: These are not samples. They are synthetically generated sounds. DrumMachine is actually a synthesizer (that can handle samples as well).
See them as starting points and then use the other parameters to tweak the sound to your liking.

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That’s not the reason the Control Room exists. It lets you have separate and independent control over the Audio going into your mix and the Audio you hear on your monitor speakers & headphones.

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I fully support Maax’s comment

In Cubase 14’s Drum Machine, when you click on a sample, nothing is heard — you have to click on the pad afterwards just to hear it.

We’re assigning sounds to pads without knowing how they sound.

It makes no sense to assign a sound and then trigger the pad to find out what it sounds like.

Also, when inserting a note in the pattern editor, it doesn’t play — you only hear it when the pattern is running.

If samples played on click and notes were heard when inserted, it would make the workflow much smoother — as is standard in most DAWs.

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