The Instruments; General Concepts; Shared Pads, Independent Tracks; Two Instruments, One Voice: The Hats - Arturia DRUMBRUTE IMPACT User Manual

3. THE INSTRUMENTS

3.1. General concepts

3.1.1. Shared pads, independent tracks

The DrumBrute Impact has 10 analog instruments that share the 8 pads. On each of the
shared instrument channels there is a button that selects which instrument will be played
by the pad they share. But each of those instruments has its own track in a pattern.
For example, the Tom Hi and Tom Low instruments share an instrument channel. The Type
button is used to select which one of those two instruments will be played by the Tom Hi/
Low pad. But you can record independent parts for each Tom.
the same is true for the Cymbal and Cowbell instruments: the Type button selects the
instrument to be played, and each has its own track in a pattern.

3.1.2. Two instruments, one voice: the Hats

The Closed Hat instrument and the Open Hat instrument are generated by the same analog
circuitry, and so only one can be heard at a time. So when the Tone or Harmonics are
adjusted for the one instrument, it affects them both.
But there are some independent adjustments that can be made to the decay time of each
instrument:
• Play an accented note and the decay time will increase sightly on both
instruments
• Add the Color effect to the Closed Hat and its decay time will increase a bit more
• The Open Hat has a dedicated Decay knob that allows its decay time to be
lengthened considerably. However, the Closed Hat will always cut off the Open
Hat.

3.1.3. Two instruments, one effect: the Toms

The Tom Hi and Tom Low instruments share the same Color effect: Activate Color mode for
the Toms and both instruments will have a longer decay time.
Technically the Color effect is applied to Tom Hi, and that color information is shared with
Tom Low. That is why the Type LED jumps automatically to Tom Hi when the Color button is
pressed.

3.1.4. Cymbal can change, Cowbell can not

The decay time of the Cymbal instrument can be altered by the Cym Decay knob, but this
knob does not affect the Cowbell instrument. So when the Cowbell has been selected by the
Type button, the Cym Decay knob does nothing.
The Cowbell instrument also does not have a Color effect, but the Cymbal instrument does.
So when the Color button is pressed the Type LED will jump to "Cym" to indicate that the
Color effect is only applied to the Cymbal.
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