Adding a Second Agent to Fatten the Sound

You can fatten the sound of your current drum kit by adding a kit from another agent that does not contain its own patterns, but that adds to the patterns of the first kit.

Prerequisite

You have loaded a kit in the first kit slot and set it up to play the way you want it.

Procedure

  1. Select the second kit slot in the kit rack and open the Kits page on the Load panel.
  2. Deactivate Load Kit with Patterns or Styles .
  3. Load a kit in the second slot.
  4. On the Overview page, copy the patterns or styles of the first agent to the second agent. This way, the same groove is played by both kits.
  5. To accentuate only particular drum sounds, for example, snare or kick drums, make sure that only these drum sounds are used for the pads.

    This way, the unused instrument pads do not play back any samples. Do one of the following:

    • Reset the instrument pads for all drum sounds that you do not want to use.

    • Edit the MIDI patterns for the drum sounds that you want to use, so that it contains only the notes that you want to play.

  6. If you use Beat Agent kits, you can load your own drum samples to customize your drum sounds even further.