M-Audio Wizoo Darbuka [19/30] Selecting parts

Darbuka • User Guide 4

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Selecting Parts

A similar drop down menu to the one in the Pattern Arranger is used to select Parts within a Track.

Right click (Mac: [Ctrl]-Click) a Part to open the menu and choose from the list.

< Special Options In The Part Menu

Included in the Part Menu are some special options.

• None: Choosing None in the Part menu means that nothing will be played in the Track

for that Pattern.

• Default: Restores the part that was selected when you entered the Edit Page. This is

useful if you have made changes to a pattern that you want to take back.

This option can only remember changes and restore default settings until you leave the

Edit Page.

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No Change: No Change means that the Track will continue to play the previously playing

Pattern chosen.

• Mute: Any key in every Style can be assigned to mute any Tracks. These are called Track Mute Keys and

are colored yellow on the Color Keyboard. Using this option in the Part Menu will mute the chosen Track

for that Part. Mute Keys are particularly useful for arranging and performing and you can very easily

arrange favorite Track mute groups.

Mute Keys for each Track (from 1-14) are assigned to notes C4-C#5 by default.

• Simplify: Simplify is only available for Fill Patterns. When active the Part is automatically thinned out,

allowing you to use the same ﬁlls to create variations.

• Quantize: Quantize is also only available for Fill Patterns and works in the same way as the Quantize

feature on the Play Page. Technically Quantize removes all percussion hits busier than an 1/8th note

timing.

< The Part Parameters

The same global features for the whole instrument found on the Play Page are also available for individual

Parts, Patterns and Tracks, as well as a few more. You may be surprised at just how much you can shape and

mould each performance in every Style.

To edit Part Parameters you must ﬁrst select the Parts, Tracks or Patterns you wish to change.

The ﬁrst row of features in the Part Parameters should already be quite familiar to you since a lot of them exist

on the Play page as global controls.

• Timing: Timing governs the tightness of the playing of the selected Parts. The default setting of 50

percent leaves the original percussion player’s performance unchanged, increasing towards the Tight

setting gradually quantizes the timing until all hits are precisely in time and decreasing towards Loose

exaggerates the natural feel.

• Quantize: Quantize sets the highest possible note value, all percussion hits outside of this value are

removed. For example when 1/8 is set all 16th notes are removed, they don’t fall within the 8th note

timing grid.

• Swing: Swing pushes the timing of the selected Tracks towards a triplet feel. In the situation where an

Track is already naturally playing a triplet feel, the Swing control will push the triplet beats to an even

later position in the bar.