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Using a higher tempo, outside of the recommend range, can make our
drummer sound a little pushed, but there's nothing wrong with it from
a technical point of view. However, since the Special Agent styles
were recorded live and then edited into slices (one slice for each
beat), using a tempo lower than the recommended range may result in
glitches during playback. Silent gaps between the hits, so to speak.
This sounds a bit nasty and not very realistic. Shorter sounds, like kick,
snare and closed hihat, may not be affected too much, but sustained
sounds, like half open hihats and ride cymbals, will surely suffer a lot.
Use lower tempi with caution! If you absolutely must use a low tempo,
try adding a little reverb to disguise the gaps.
A guided tour around the Special Agent module
You start making music by loading a style from the pull-down menu.
Set the tempo of your host to somewhere within the limits given in the
range window. With the Complexity slider set somewhere around the
middle of its travel, you'll have a good starting point for using this style.
The letter T after a style name indicates that this style is triplet based.
There's a complete listing of all styles with descriptions written by the
composers starting on
The Complexity slider in Special Agent works just like in Groove
Agent. Good, basic drumming is played with the slider set somewhere
around its middle third. The levels labeled A-B-C-D-E are often very
sparse. They are intended to be used during song intros and breaks or
even as ornamentation in songs that don't really benefit from regular
drumming. The levels to the right are more complex, probably louder
too. You may want to use them at the end of your composition.
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