in this video we're going to look at how
to create drum patterns using the pads
on push-push is unique in that you can
use the pads bows for the natural finger
drumming of patterns as well as the step
sequencer for precise beats with a high
level of visual feedback we can even
combine both methods at the same time
for the fast and effective creation of
drum patterns directly from the hardware
first press the add track button to
create a new midi track
using the encoders above the display or
the buttons below the display you can
navigate lives browser directly from
push to find a drumkit once you've found
one press the green button to load the
kit
press the Browse button to exit lies
browser
push will automatically configure the
pads when you load a drum kit we have
three main areas to create drum patterns
on the fly the 16 yellow pads for
real-time finger drumming the top four
row of pads for step sequencing and the
16 pads in the bottom right to set up
the loop length of the drum patterns the
touch strip on the left side allows us
to navigate up and down the drum rack
banks should there be more than one Bank
of drum rack sounds loaded as soon as
you hit a yellow pad the drum rack pad
is selected and turns from yellow to
blue and the parameter values are
visible in the display if the drum rack
pad contains no sample then these are
white in color
the pats for the step sequencer
represent 32 steps and their resolution
can be set with the grid buttons on the
right we can decrease and increase the
resolution in other words the number of
steps that are represented by our step
sequencer grid let's start by adding
some notes with the step sequencer since
this will start lives transport and
begins the creation of a drum pattern
loop you can add step sequence notes one
by one or push multiple steps
simultaneously we can keep building our
pattern by holding down the select
button and choosing another drum pad and
continue the process of adding step
sequencer notes
holding down the accent button while
pressing a step creates a velocity
dynamic which makes the dark-blue step
sequencer notes louder than the others
press the duplicate button to copy the
current drum pattern for us to continue
recording
now let's use the 16 pads to overdub
some more drum notes choose the sound
you wish to record in the overdub now
press the record button and start over
dubbing your drum pad lets overdub some
percussion to the current drum pattern
pressing the repeat button allows me to
play repeated notes and different
durations selectable using the grid
buttons and also with different
velocities depending on the amount of
pressure used on the velocity-sensitive
pads the swing rotary encoder allows an
amount of Swing to be added to the notes
in real time which gives a more
humanized feeling to our drum notes
adding some more drum notes using the
yellow pads to create more variation
that's easy but say you need to improve
the timing of the notes holding the pad
and pressing one time allows the note to
be quantized to a specific grid value
and amount holding the quantize button
on its own allows the amount of
quantization and the grid to be set as
well as the possibility that notes are
quantized during recording by holding
down a blue pad in the step sequencer
grid I can also nudge the individual
drum notes and change the individual
velocity using the encoders above the
display
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using the undo button we can go back and
step in the recording process by pushing
it once or several times to go back
subsequent steps this time I'll use the
metronome to give me a clip track for
overdub recording you can hold the shift
button and turn the master encoder to
adjust the volume of the metronome let's
extend the drum pack using the double
button I can increase the size of the
loop to twice the original science using
the 16 pads on the right by selecting
two pans I can set the overall length of
a pattern
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so we've now covered the basics of
creating drum patterns on the fly in the
next video we're going to look at how to
play musical notes and chords using push