The last section I wanna go over right now is called the TRANSPORT CONTROL section (5) – which is right up here across the top of the window.

It’s a more advanced topic called mixing and mastering, but it’s good to know about the basics of it. You use it to get everything sounding clear and clean. You adjust things here so that nothing is too loud or too soft, or isn’t sitting right with the other sounds. Right here is also where you can add different effects to your sounds like reverbs, echos, distortion and more to change up the tone, or help it sit better in the mix of all the sounds. This is where you take all the different sounds in your beat and adjust the volume (which is obviously how loud the sound plays back relative to other sounds) and panning (whether the sound comes from the center or more from the left or right speakers). The next section you have to worry about is called the MIXER section (4). That’s called “arrangement” in music and it’s a more intermediate topic that you’ll keep learning about.

This makes things change up and stay fresh across your entire beat so that your idea starts to shape into a full song instead of a boring, repetitive loop. So in the playlist, you can bring in different loops/patterns and take out different loops/patterns in various places by drawing them in or dragging them over. Now if you don’t understand what I mean by “4 bars” or “8 bars” – it’s how you count time in music. The next area you should know about is called the PLAYLIST or ARRANGEMENT WINDOW (3). This is where you take the different patterns/loops you create in the channel rack and lay them out in different places across a timeline, so you aren’t stuck with a repetitive 4 or 8 loop that just plays over and over again without changing. If you want to mute the sound so it doesn’t play back, you’d click this green light. You can turn the volume up or down of the sound/instrument or move it between the left and right speakers using these knobs here. This brings up a piano sequencer where you can draw in actual notes at different pitches up and down the length of the piano. If you’ve got a melodic instrument like a piano, you right-click on that instrument name and choose PIANO ROLL (not pictured). This is best for drum and percussion sounds. If I want to remove a note/beat, I just right-click on it. So for example if I wanted the kick drum to play on these different beats, I’d draw them in by clicking on the squares with my mouse.

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