... drums and percussion (ports 1-10), I chose a sound from the MU50 sound module via the control strip. With the exception of the 2nd bass line, which I recorded live, I used the pencil command to draw in all the notes that make up my track. This was useful to me as I am not a competent or confident keyboardist, and my timing etc would have been bad. With the pencil and hand tools I was able to better construct riffs, and copy them to make multiple bars. This saved me a lot of time, as I did not have to keep going back to the start if I messed up a live recording. The only problem with using the tools to construct my track, was that the velocity stayed the same level, meaning that I had to painstakingly set the level for each note to make it sound less flat, ...

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