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Darbuka • User Guide 4

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< Playing Styles

Now that you’ve loaded a Style, just play a note on your MIDI keyboard (try C2) and Darbuka will start to play

at the tempo of your host application, even if it is currently stopped. Try playing another note (C#2 for example),

Darbuka will change to another variation of the rhythm.

If you want Darbuka to stop, play C6 on your MIDI keyboard.

< Saving Styles

If you are using Darbuka in a sequencer project you don’t need to save the Style you have been working on;

all settings in Darbuka are saved with your song. If you’ve customized or created your own Styles and want to

save them, there are two ways:

1. Click the Save button (bottom left) and you’ll be presented with a familiar Save dialog

2. choose Save Instrument from the usual Save/Load menu provided by your host application.

When you save a Style in Darbuka it will automatically be included in the Styles Selector listing.

The Color Keyboard

The funky looking kyboard at the bottom of Darbuka is not just a ﬁne example of modern interface design,

you can also play it by clicking your mouse on any key. The ﬁrst key at the left of the Color Keyboard is MIDI

note C1 (36).

The Color Keyboard.

Our GUI programmer chose his favorite food colors for the keyboard display, not only are they mouth watering

but they also provide a lot of useful information about what Darbuka will do when you play a MIDI key or click

the Color Keyboard.

• Blue: The blue keys show normal rhythm grooves. The light blue color is for lighter grooves (with less

instruments), the dark blue for fuller grooves.

The color shading can be changed by you to help you ﬁnd the rhythms you want more quickly, particularly

useful in a live situation (see Color Coding in the Performing With Darbuka chapter of this manual).

• Green: Green keys are for ﬁlls. Light green is for light ﬁlls or solos and dark green for fuller ﬁlls.

• Yellow: The yellow keys are Mute Keys. When played they will mute or unmute Tracks for easy arranging

“on the ﬂy”. For more info check out the Performing With Darbuka chapter of this manual.

• Red: The red keys are the Stop and End keys for Darbuka. Whenever you press a blue or green key

Darbuka will play, so there is no need for a start key. The ﬁrst of the red keys will play a rhythm ending

and the second will stop Darbuka instantly.

All color keys can be assigned to any MIDI note (see the chapter The Edit Page.