M-Audio Drum & Bass Rig [5/0] Lc 5 loop creator

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Drum and Bass Rig • User Guide

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LC-5 Loop Creator

The LC-5 Loop Creator is a sliced loop player that includes 23 sets of 12 pre-sliced loops. These loops will play in sync at any tempo. Each set

contains loops for a certain musical style, e.g. Arabic or House. These loops can be freely assigned to the keys of your MIDI keyboard (three

octaves between C2 and B4), combined (by playing multiple MIDI keys), rearranged, and edited in many ways. The range (C2-B4) is chosen for

ease of use with smaller M-Audio keyboards, which have the lowest C on C2. As a convenience, the C2-B4 ranges are duplicated above (C5-B7)

and below (C-1-B1), but it’s important to note that these are simply the same zones repeated and therefore any edits made in these zones affect

LC-5 Master Section

These controls affect all loops in the LC-5 patch.

Punch: Punch is a special compression algorithm, which accentuates attacks and makes the lower dynamic information louder.

Loose/Tight: Loose/Tight is a timing/quantization control. The waveform inspector displays timing changes. The 12 o‘clock position exhibits

no timing change. Turning to the right quantizes while turning to the left accentuates the natural timing of the loops.

Latch:

with Latch mode enabled, all triggered loops/notes play continuously until the Latch is turned off or the “Stop” key is used.

KeyF:

allows you to select MIDI keys/loops for editing via MIDI.

Loop Edit

adjusts the decay time/length of the individual slices for the selected loop.

Speed: adjusts the selected loop’s speed: left is half-time while right is double-time.

Filter: adjusts the selected loop’s filter cutoff. Turning to the left reduces high frequencies.

Drop-Down Menus

Loop Select: displays which loop is assigned to a key and allows you to assign any other loop (from the 12 available loops) to a key. It is

possible to assign any loops to any keys or even the same loop to every key. The factory programs all use a simple assignment format: the

C‘s use loop 1, the C#‘s use loop 2, and so on, chromatically. The octave C2-B2 generally has a standard version of each loop and the other

two octaves have variations of the loops. For example, on C2 will be a standard version of a bass loop. On C3, there will be the same loop,

but with a different ordering for the slices. C4 can contain another variation of the same loop. This means you can expect variations of the

same loop when playing the same note in different octaves.

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” exchanges the first beat with the second beat

and the third beat with the fourth beat of the bar.