Orbeat: Drum Machine

All of these came from your emails. LANES THAT CUT EACH OTHER OFF Put two lanes in the same choke group and a new hit silences the other — a closed hat stopping an open one, exactly the way a real kit behaves. Until now every lane rang out on its own and hats piled up on top of each other. Choke works everywhere sound leaves Orbeat: the built-in kits, samples you imported yourself, and the MIDI Orbeat sends out, where the choked lane gets a proper note-off so your hardware stops too. Set it per lane, up to four groups. Free for everyone. SAVE A MIDI MAP FOR EACH RIG Set the notes your lanes send once, name it, and recall it when you change gear — instead of re-entering the same table every time you move between instruments. General MIDI, Elektron Analog Rytm, Roland TR-8S and Arturia DrumBrute are built in, and your own maps sit alongside them. Free for everyone. EIGHT PATTERNS, A TO H Every project now holds eight patterns instead of one. Switch by tapping, or from a controller — send a program change, or a note, and Orbeat changes pattern without you touching the screen. You choose when the change lands: instantly, on the next beat, or on the next bar. The sequencer never restarts, so a switch mid-phrase stays in time with everything else you have running. Patterns share your kit, your samples and your MIDI setup — only the rhythm changes, so switching stays instant and never reloads a sound. Pattern banks are part of Orbeat Pro. Choke groups and the MIDI maps are free. YOUR SAMPLES PLAY THROUGH A sample longer than one step used to be cut dead the moment its lane fired again — every hit restarted the file from the top with no fade, so on a busy pattern you got a click per hit and never heard the end of the sound. Now the previous hit fades out under the new one, in the same five milliseconds a choke takes, and a long sample can be retriggered as fast as you like without the chop. A player sent a screen recording of it happening; that recording is what found it. Orbeat also stops holding on to every sample it has ever loaded. Switching kits used to keep the old audio in memory until you quit; it is now released the moment nothing is playing it. Thanks to the three players who wrote in — between them, they are this whole update. Tell us what you need next: zhiii0x@gmail.com