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The arranger track
Working with arranger events
An event is dragged into the arranger chain.
• By dragging arranger events from the Project window into the arranger chain.
If you followed our example, you should now have arranger events arranged in a very
basic pop song pattern. However, we have used audio files that are only a few bars
long – to turn our pattern into a “song” (or at least into a basic sketch of the song
structure), these files must be looped. This is where the Repeats function comes in.
If you want an event to repeat several times, proceed as follows:
• Click in the Repeats field for an event, type in the desired number of repeats and
press [Enter].
When playing back the arranger chain, the Counter column indicates which repeat
of this event is currently playing.
• Click in the Mode field for an event and select the desired repeat mode.
When you now play back the arranger chain, you will hear the complete arrangement.
Proceed as follows:
1. Make sure that Arranger mode is activated.
In Arranger mode the project will be played back using the arranger settings.
2. Position the Arranger Editor window so that you can see the arranger track in the
Project window, and click in the arrow column for the event at the top of the list.
You will see the project cursor jump to the beginning of the first event specified in
the arranger chain.
3. Activate playback, either from the Arranger Editor or on the Transport panel.
The events are played back in the specified order.
Option Button Description
Normal In this mode, the arranger chain will be played back as you
set it up.
Repeat
forever
In this mode, the current arranger event will be repeated in a
loop until you either click on another event in the Arranger
Editor or press play once again.
Pause after
Repeats
In this mode, the playback of the arranger chain will be
stopped after having played back all repeats of the current
arranger event.