With a sampled drum kit loaded, we program an unremarkable 4/4 kick drum into the Pattern. (Image credit: Future) Step 2: By default, every lane of the Pattern is 16 16th-notes – or one 4/4 bar – long ...

Shaker 3 sounds like an egg shaker. For a basic 16th-note pattern, start by placing a full-velocity note on every eighth-note, then insert lower-velocity notes between. Set velocities individually ...

At last, the reason Pi is what it is: the Double-bass pattern. The formula of Pi for the kick drum was pretty far fetched at first, but seemed to work well once the track was finished. The numbers and ...