Ultrabeat - My top 5 tips - Part 2

The Ultrabeat is a fantastic drum machine and instrument, and it has some wonderful little features you may not know about.

Here's 5 of my faveourite things you can do in the Ultrabeat.

They include:

Routing to a Mixer
Adding samples (from folder, UB and EXS24)
Copying patterns
Playing with velocity
Tweaking the step edit settings

Hope they're useful! :)

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Logic
• Ultrabeat
• EXS24
• samples
• drums
• patterns

[joe9090joe]

my aux input only goes up to 15-16..how do i get more?

[powdermonkeydan]

@joe9090joe When you click the + button you should get 8 stereo channels and 8 mono. Make sure you've selected the correct setting when you create the Ultrabeat (there are a couple of options).

[spillerjuice]

How do I keep the 'step' edits in place - as I click out of the step edit where you can change pitch of samples etc, the edits I've made are no longer in place and the sample reverts back to it's original setting.

[powdermonkeydan]

Yup, when you go between Voice and Step you can't hear the changes you've made in Step mode, i.e. to the pitch.

BUT when you drag and drop your drum beat into the arrange window, all your changes are stored in that MIDI part.

[powdermonkeydan]

Firstly, make sure you've created a multi-output Ultrabeat rather than single output.

Then, click on the + on the channel strip and this will add all the UB channels you need.

Hope that helps!

[majorocarroll]

Nice work man, thanks! This'll sound dumb, but when you are dropping UB patterns into the arrange window, is it into MIDI, Instrument, or Audio tracks?

[powdermonkeydan]

hi

sorry for not getting back to you sooner. you drop the UB pattern into an MIDI track - one that's got the Ultrabeat already setup on it.

[Osc2xPowerPuff]

thanks a lot, that's great

[TheOperatrance]

Amazing tips in both tutorials, I can't wait to experiment on my own. Good job!

[TheBobjenks]

Thanks man, really good tutorial, very concise and easy to understand!

[StEvE1961able]

Your top 5 tips have really turned a Mini into a Ferarri. Thanks man!

[drthomassummers]

majoro carroll you gotta use the tiny button by the loop name to drag it to the arrange window, then turn the drum machine off so the loop the plays and ultra beat dosnt carry on ad-nauseam. took me ages to work that last bit out!

[disconnect4]

now, one more reason not to leave the house. this tutorial is really helpful. :) thanks!

[djruinerdotcom]

these are really the best tutorials on ultrabeat Ive seen, Ive got like 60k views on my tutorial and thought I knew alot about it but I've even learned some cool stuff from you.... you are very cool!

[iaminbetweendays]

Great Tips! Awesome job.

[nfs6532]

very helpful mate (Y) cheers :D