Using Players

Creating Players

Creating a Player device is very similar to creating other device types, with a few exceptions:

•	A Player device can not be created on its own, without an associated instrument device.

•	A Player device can only be created for devices in the Instrument palette.

All Instrument types are supported: native devices, Rack Extensions and VST instruments.

Here are the different ways you can create a Player device:

Drag a Player from the Players palette and drop above an Instrument device (between the Instrument and Mix Channel devices) in the rack, to attach it to the Instrument device.

The insertion point is indicated by the standard orange insertion line with the + symbol:

Select the Instrument device you want to attach a Player to in the rack, and then double-click the Player device in the Players palette.

The Player device is attached to the Instrument device.

Right-click an Instrument device in the rack and select “Create > Players > Player device” from the context menu.

The Player device is attached to the Instrument device.

Chaining Players

If you like, you can attach several Player devices to a single Instrument device in the rack. Just follow the instructions in “Creating Players” above and make sure you insert the additional Player(s) somewhere in between the Instrument device and the top section of the topmost Player device.

When you chain several Player devices the MIDI is processed from the top device and down.

See “Tips & Tricks” for some interesting combinations!

Re-ordering chained Players

You can also rearrange the order of the chained Players:

Drag the desired Player and drop at the new position.

The insertion point is indicated by the standard orange insertion line with the + symbol.

Replacing Players

Replacing a Player device with another Player device can be done in exactly the same way as when replacing other device types, see “Replacing devices”.

Deleting Players

Deleting Players is done in exactly the same way as when deleting other device types, see “Deleting devices”.

Naming Players

Naming Players is done in exactly the same way as when naming other device types, see “Naming devices”.

About Players in Combinators

Players can also live inside Combinators, if there are instrument devices there. A Combinator device can also have Players attached to it (outside of it).

Common Player device parameters

Fold, Bypass All, Direct Record and Send to Track

At the top of the Player device - or above the topmost Player device, if you are using several chained Players - are the Fold, Bypass All, Direct Record and Send to Track buttons.

Click the triangular Fold button to fold/unfold all Player devices attached to the Instrument device.

Switch on Bypass All to send the MIDI from your MIDI Control Keyboard/On-screen Piano Keys straight to the instrument device, bypassing any Player devices.

Activate Direct Record to record the MIDI notes generated by the Player(s), instead of the notes you play from your MIDI Control Keyboard.

Direct Record mode is for when you use Players as an input tool (record chords, etc) and for when you want to capture your live tweaking (for example, play an arpeggiator and tweak the parameters in real time) and want to get the generated notes recorded straight into the note clip.

If you play back already recorded notes from the sequencer track of the instrument, they are not affected/processed by the Player (i.e they bypass the Player(s) and are sent directly to the instrument itself).

See “General recording methods” for more information.

Click the Send to Track button to render the notes generated by the Player(s), based on the notes in the original note clip(s) on the Instrument track in the sequencer.

The result is a new note clip on a new note lane, on the instrument's track. The original note clips on that track are automatically cut at the Left and Right Locators. The original clip(s) between the Locators are muted. Also, the Bypass All switch will automatically be turned on after the rendering is done.

Only the section between the Left and Right Locators is rendered. If the Right Locator is to the left of the Left Locator position, the function doesn't do anything (like with Redrum etc.).

If you have recorded in Direct Record mode, or used the Send Notes to Track function, the rendered notes are already in the note clip in the sequencer. If you don’t need the Player(s) anymore after this you can just delete them to save some DSP load.

On button

Click to activate or deactivate the Player.

When deactivated (off), the MIDI notes from your MIDI Control Keyboard bypass the Player.

Patch section

Here is where you can browse, load and save your Player patches. The functionality is exactly the same as for other patch based devices, see “About patches”.

Inputs and Outputs

Player devices can also feature CV In/Out connectors as well as Audio In connectors on the rear panel.