Andrew Dixon Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 Hey there, Does anyone know how to duplicate pads on the Drum Machine Designer - usually with everything in logic you can hold down alt+click and you can drag a duplicate but you cant in DMD for some reason? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 It's not possible to duplicate a pad in DMD. DMD is basically a control surface that routes MIDI notes to different software instrument channel strips that are inside a summing track stack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Dixon Posted June 4, 2020 Author Share Posted June 4, 2020 Thanks, David. Would you suggest a work around for this? I love DMD but I feel like this is lacking functionality in comparison to plug ins like Battery & in Ableton where you can quickly duplicate samples and make tweaks to each of them so they have different FX with the same core sample 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution David Nahmani Posted June 4, 2020 Solution Share Posted June 4, 2020 It depends what your workflow is. You could open the stack in the Tracks view, and Option-drag a subtrack to duplicate it. It will however not have its own pad inside DMD on the main track. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dewdman42 Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 There is no easy way to duplicate a pad. But this is what I would do. Setup the first pad or start with the DMD kit you want to copy a pad for and located the pad. It will be pointing to an instrument channel, with a pitch. Probably Inst1, if this is a new empty project. Here is a new empty DMD, which by default has one pad pointing to Inst1. Ok, now click the + button the second pad. It will be pointing to Inst2, which is not what you want yet... Open up the environment. Look for the channel strip called "Inst 2". Select it. Look at the inspector on the left and change the "Channel" to Inst1, (or whatever your first pad is pointing to). While you are doing that, you can change the name of the pad here, (i called this one" Inst 1 Dupe") Now look at DMD and you will see the new pad is pointing to the same instrument as the first one, with a different name, it doesn't have to be a different name. You can use same name or icon. By default its probably pointing to a different midi pitch, that's up to you what you want to do, you can change that in DMD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ansolas Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 Another way is to save the DMD pad's Quick Sampler as patch and load it on another channel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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