Hi all
Trying to figure out where I’m going wrong here (or if I am at all).
When dragging patterns as MIDI into the Groove Agent track, it should just play back the instruments as programmed in the pattern, right? But what I’m seeing happen here is that the instrument midi is ‘overlapping’ with pattern pad triggers. See the attached screenshot and notice that the Hi-hat Shank is on A#0 in the pattern. If I look at the Instrument pads, the Hi Hat Shank is indeed set on A#0. BUT the Fill 7 Pattern Pad is ALSO on A#0. So, when I drag the midi in, it’s triggering Fill 7 instead of the Hi Hat Shank sample. The only solution I have found is to reset/delete the pattern pad on A#0, and then the sample plays as programmed.
This is surely not the workflow, where patterns and instruments are set to the same MIDI value? What am I missing or misunderstanding?
Thanks for your input.
Replying to my own post here with a better solution: the dedicated pattern port. There’s a little area at the bottom left of GA where you can do a couple of things. Here, you can activate the pattern port. In Cubase, a MIDI track - but not an Instrument track - can be routed either to GA “Main” or GA “Pattern” (I’m assuming that it works similarly in all DAWs), thus separating the two input types regardless of channel, but the pattern port must be activated in GA else both routings will trigger patterns.
You can set a different midi channel to listen for pattern triggers - this only seems to work with the Pattern Port activated. Your track output needs to be assigned to the correct channel for this to work. Changing the channel of actual midi notes seems to make no difference. I can’t think of a reason for wanting the Pattern Triggers to be on a different midi channel if they’re already in a dedicated track routed directly to the Pattern Port.
What I expected was that you might be able to work with midi patterns and pattern triggers in the SAME region, with your pattern triggers assigned to a the pattern channel. This way you would be able to program your pattern triggers and then add instrument triggers (cymbal crashes, rolls, embellishments, whatever) set to the main channel, and so your drum loops would all exist in a single region. This doesn’t seem to be the case - pattern triggers and additional midi need to be in separate tracks.
