M-Audio Wizoo Darbuka [16/30] Arranging with darbuka

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What Is A Pattern?

A Pattern is an arrangement of grooves, a collection of Parts, assigned to your MIDI keyboard.

A Pattern.

A Pattern can contain up to fourteen Tracks, each playing any groove available in it’s Part menu.

Arranging With Darbuka

Arranging with Darbuka is fast, intuitive and easy. Probably the best way to get familiar with the Pattern

Arranger is to do a fast tutorial. We’ll even try a simple edit so you get an idea of what’s possible along the

way.

1. First load the Style ‘Malfuf’ by double clicking it in the Styles Selector.

2. Click the Edit Tab to see the Edit Page (top right of Darbuka).

3. Play C2 on your MIDI keyboard (or click the second C note on the Color Keyboard). The percussion

Pattern and it’s Parts will become highlighted with a white border and play.

4. Right click (Mac: [Ctrl]-Click) on the Darbuka 1 Part “Dar 01” in the second column of the highlighted row

of Parts and select “Dar 03” from the drop down list. You will hear that the Darbuka rhythm is less busy

now.

The listing at the top of the menu shows all available performances for the Track.

5. Let’s add some Sagat. Right-click (Mac: [Ctrl]-Click) in the same Pattern row in the Sagat column and

select “Sag 01”. Now we have a Sagat playing quite busily. Let’s simplify it.

6. Click the “Sag 01” Part so that only it has the white border highlight and select Low from the Complexity

menu in the Part Parameters below. Now the Sagat is playing a simpler 8th note groove.

This tutorial shows just how simple it is to change, arrange or add Parts in the Pattern Arranger.