
Go ahead and play around with the hits and see what you can come up with. Play your MIDI controller (or use the Piano Roll View) and you'll find that all of your drum hits have been mapped between C5 and D7. If you used the new Synth Rack feature than this should already be done for you. Now in SONAR assign a MIDI track to Cyclone setting the input to MIDI OMNI and the Output to Cyclone. When you're done it should look like this:Īfter you've assigned all the pads, you'll want to turn off the Loop button for each one. Since the loop basically repeats itself after 4 bars, we only need to repeat this for the first 16 slices, assigning one slice per pad. This ensures that the slice will remain in the same position relative to the other slices, which will be important when we get to our second example.

For consistency, release the slice over the Pad name (Pad 1, Pad 2, etc). Start by selecting the first 'slice' in the waveform and dragging it down to Pad 1 in the Pad Editor. This allows us to write a new variation of the groove with the existing kit, giving you a lot of use out of a single loop without having to continuously dive back into your loop library for every drum break or bridge. Let's start by assigning each drum sound to a different pad. To begin, simply highlight the clip in the Loop Bin so that the appropriate waveform appears in the middle window. However, we're going to focus on some of the more in-depth functions of Cyclone. If we wanted to trigger this loop live from a keyboard or MIDI track, we simply would drag the loop from the Loop Bin to one of the pads to the right. In the example above, we've already loaded in the drum loop "126 NYC House 1" from the SONAR 2.0 CD into our Loop Bin. Here you can see the basic layout of Cyclone: Rather than just overload you with the hype about Cyclone DXi, we'd like to show you some of the more common uses for this exciting new plug-in.

Wish you hadn't hit that one flat note on your guitar hook? No problem! Wish you had used a different kick drum? Done! Now we've upped the ante once again by allowing you to move, delete, tune, pan, and replace every single slice individually.Ĭyclone DXi is available in SONAR 2 and later


With Groove Clip technology SONAR allows you to break up your loops into individual transients for real-time pitch shifting and tempo matching. With the new Cyclone DXi from Cakewalk, you gain complete control over your loops and. Getting Started With Cyclone DXi Last updated on
