FLAMENCÓMETRO OSCAR HERRERO TUTORIALS

First steps (04) PATTERN EDITOR

Hello. I’m back again today to talk about the Pattern Editor. Let’s look at its basic features.
The Pattern Editor is where all the flamenco styles in more than 200 rhythm patterns are
programmed. It has more than 100 top-quality real sounds, samples recorded especially for this
application: clapping, cajón, udu drum, hand drum, drum kit, etc. Let’s look at the interface.
On the right of the window we have the Pattern Selector. In the section header above it, starting
from the left, is a double angle bracket for hiding or showing this area. In the center is its name
and to the right of this are the options. Clicking on the gear icon reveals what we can do:

1. Delete the pattern

2. Change beats in the pattern
3. Change the pattern name
4. Export the pattern to WAV

The Pattern Selector has two tabs:

 Official patterns (Built-in). There are over 200 rhythm patterns programmed by
percussionist Jesús Mañeru. Here you will find all the flamenco styles with top-quality real
sounds. They are protected and cannot be modified. And in the next tab:

 My patterns. This is where you can save patterns you create.

The information in each tab is divided into several columns:

 Nbr. All the patterns in numerical order.

  Beats. The beats per measure in each pattern.

 Name. The name of the pattern.

 Start. This column indicates the beat of the measure where the pattern starts; for example,
if you want a Bulería pattern to start on beat 1 or on beat 12. Beside the number is the
accent symbol. Click on it to show only the accentuated beats in the Display. For example,
in the Siguiriya it is customary to count only the 5 accentuated beats instead of all 12
beats actually in the measure.
Beside the Name column is a search bar to quickly find the pattern you want.
Now let’s move to the rest of the section, the most complex area. This is where we program the
patterns. Today I will talk only about the basic features and later in another tutorial we will see the
advanced features.
On the left of the section header is the section name: PATTERN EDITOR. Above the center panel
we see the name of the pattern currently open and to the right of this the BPM for the pattern
currently being played. We have a wide range, from 1 to 600 beats per minute, and two ways of doing
it: we can click the double angle bracket on the right to increase the tempo or the one on the left to
diminish it. Or we can type the BPM we want directly into the box.

Finally, we see 8 boxes with a quarter note in each one, divided by a number from 1 to 8. This is
used when programming to write the type of note for each beat. We will look at this in the tutorial on
advanced features.
Below the header are the tracks we use to create and compose patterns and, from left to right in
each one, the following columns:

 Instrument. We choose the instrument to assign to each track; beside it is a double angle
bracket to hide or show the next three columns.

 M/S/C. Clicking the speaker icon will mute a particular track. We click on the headphones
if we want to listen only to that track. The heart icon is used to create “humanized rhythm”
on the track. More about this in the tutorial on advanced features.

 Pan. Applies sound panning to each track; i.e., stereo.

 Volume. The volume slider for each track

 The remaining columns show the beats according to the meter (beats per measure) of each
pattern. This is where we write the “score” for each track. We will talk more about this in
the tutorial on advanced features.