It is on by default, and replaces the final bar’s beat with a 1-bar drum fill. In Captain Plugins 5, Captain Beat has a brand new Fill tool. To decline recorded notes, press Clear (top-right of screen) or Esc on your computer keyboard. If Auto-commit is deselected, recorded notes will stay greyed out until you click them to commit. When selected, this will ensure every played note is entered to the canvas. *NB Quantize is not applied destructively. Choose from a range of time divisions and a quantize amount between 0-100. Pro-actively quantize your beats to the desired amount. There are several input options available. *NB you must have ‘Use MIDI input when in Magic Record’ enabled in Settings. Simply press a note on your MIDI controller to enter drum hits. Hotkeys are signified in the top left-hand corner of each channel berth. When recording, hot-keys will commit nots to the canvas to match your playing. By pressing the appropriate key on your computer keyboard, you can trigger notes. When the Magic Record button is illuminated, you can record drum notes in real-time, by triggering notes to enter them to the canvas. *NB you must press Alt before Ctrl-click to initialize copy mode. Notes will duplicate and drop to the canvas. Once selected, press Alt, Ctrl-click and drag to desired position. Click/drag your mouse over the selection of note(s) you wish to move. Hold Alt and single click on a selected drum hit to delete individual sounds. Press and hold Alt, then drag your mouse over the selection of note(s) you wish to delete. Double-click and drag across the timeline to put in beats at a rate of 1/16. When the Pencil button is illuminated, you have the following controls: *NB you must press and hold Alt before pressing and holding Ctrl-click to initialize copy mode. Once selected, press and hold Alt, press and hold Ctrl-click and drag to desired position. *NB cropped notes will stay in relative position to each other, but return to beat 1:1 on the canvas. Only the selected notes will remain on the timeline. Once selected, Ctrl-click and choose ‘Crop notes to canvas’.
Click/drag your mouse over the selection of note(s) you wish to keep on the timeline. Alternatively, Ctrl-click and choose ‘Delete selected notes’.
Once selected, press backspace/delete on your computer keyboard. Click/drag your mouse over the selection of note(s) you wish to delete. Double-click the timeline at the point you want to enter a drum hit. When the Edit button is illuminated, you have the following controls: To the top-left corner of the plugin window, there are 3 command types for adding and editing drum notes: Edit, Pencil and Record. Above that, there are 4 arrangement tabs: ‘Verse’, ‘Pre-Chorus’, ‘Chorus’ and ‘Drop’.Directly above the grid are 4 tabs: Basics, Controls, Effects, and Export.The grid can be extended or shortened by dragging the time-line marker. You will see 16 populated drum instrument channels and a 16-beat pattern grid.You can use Captain Beat as a standalone drum plugin.Unlike the rest of the plugins, Captain Beat doesn’t directly connect to Captain Chords. Add it to a MIDI channel as an Instrument. Select Captain Beat from your VST or AU plugins menu.