Ringo Beats: Chaos Drums

A ride and a crash join the kit. TWO NEW VOICES The machine now plays eight drums instead of six. • RIDE trades off against the hi-hat. The two keep time for each other: when one is riding the beat the other steps back, the way a drummer moves between the hats and the ride, and the further you push BLEND toward chaos the more plainly they alternate. • CRASH lands where the fills land. It shares the chaos that drives the fill engine, so it marks the turn of a phrase instead of scattering at random. Both get their own row in the policy grid, their own mute, their own fader and their own MIDI note and channel — lock them on or off, mix them, or send them to another instrument like any other voice. Every kit plays them: the eight synthesised kits voice them like the rest of their drums, and the sampled rock kit answers with a real 22" ride and a real crash. Sessions saved before this update open exactly as they were, with the two new voices at their defaults.