Acoustica Mixcraft 7 - Manual (Page 109)

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Arrow Tool
Notes can be selected by choosing the Arrow tool in the toolbar and clicking on
them. Use this to delete notes, drag to new locations, or to highlight them for
velocity and other controller info adjustments (the vertical bar beneath the note
turns red).
Pencil Tool
Notes can be added or removed by selecting the Pencil tool in the toolbar and
clicking in grid locations.
Eraser Tool
Use the Eraser tool to delete grid notes. Though note grid locations can be
“turned on and off” with the Pencil tool, the Eraser tool is handy for quickly
erasing many grid notes by click-dragging it over multiple grid locations.
VELOCITY
Sets the MIDI velocity of notes added to the grid. These can be edited later using the
Velocity (Note ON) vertical lines below.
MIDI EDITING
Provides the standard Mixcraft MIDI editing parameters for quantization, transposition,
etc., but by and large, most of the MIDI Editing options defeat the purpose of using the
Step editor. (You wouldn’t want to quantize to swung triplets if you had the Step Editor
grid set to sixteenth-notes, for example.)
STEPS
Defines the size of each step in the grid. For traditional “X0X”-style drum machine
programming, set this to sixteenth-notes.
SCALE/DRUM MAPS
Selects which voices (i.e. notes of the scale) are displayed in the Voice List in the
column at left. If set to Chromatic, MIDI notes are shown in conventional format, e.g.
A1, C3, etc. Selecting a custom Drum Map (aka “Voice List”) displays individual names
for each note. This is particularly useful when programming drums, as notes can have
descriptive names such as, “Bass Drum”, “Snare Drum”, or “Explosive Megametal Flame
Encircled Gong.”
The Scale select field automatically changes and updates the voice list when new
Acoustica Instrument drum kits are selected. For more information, see Configuring
The Voice List below.
COPY TO
The Copy To menu allows you to export patterns created in the Step editor.
 Copy To>Performance Panel
Exports the current Step Editor pattern to the current track’s first available