🎓 Tutorials and Step-by-Step Guides

🥁 Tutorial 1: Creating a Drum Beat in Drum Machine Mode

In Omni DAW, every clip in the Session View can be transformed into a multi-pad MPC drum machine with individual per-pad expression lanes:

Step 1 Switching the Clip to Drum Machine Mode

• Open Omni DAW and go to the Session View (the view button on the toolbar or the F4 key if you are in the Arrangement View).
• Double-click a slot on Track 1 (with the TOMiC drum synth or a sampler assigned) to open the bottom Clip Editor panel.
• On the top bar of the clip editor, select the DRUM MACHINE mode.

Step 2 Setting up the Drum Pads

A pad matrix will appear in the editor window. The default TOMiC archetype set is:

• Pad 1: Kick
• Pad 2: Snare
• Pad 3: HiHat
• Pad 4: Tom

Step 3 Programming the Rhythmic Pattern

• Kick: Click the grid points on steps 1, 5, 9, 13 (a classic 4/4 rhythm).
• Snare: Enable hits on the snare pad on steps 5 and 13.
• Hi-Hat: Enable hits on the even steps 3, 7, 11, 15.

Step 4 Adding a Human Groove (Swing & Probability)

• On the hi-hat pad, switch to the Probability lane and reduce the probability of the hit on step 15 to 70%.
• On the main toolbar at the very top of the screen, enable the SWING slider and set the value to 54% (MPC Swing).
• Press Space to listen to a smooth, swinging drum beat!

🎸 Tutorial 2: Creating a Bassline in Step Sequencer Mode

1. Create a new MIDI instrument track (Ctrl + Shift + M) and add BassSynth (acid TB-303).
2. Create a new clip on this track and switch the clip editor mode to STEP SEQUENCER.
3. Set the step resolution to 1/16 and the loop length to 16 steps.
4. In the Pitch lane, lay out the note pitches of your bassline (e.g., C2, C2, D#2, G2).
5. In the Step Condition lane, add the 1ST condition on the first step and FILL on the final steps to create a dynamically evolving bass loop!

🎹 Tutorial 3: Recording Melodies and Piano Roll with Scale Fold Mode

1. Create a new PolySynth polyphonic synthesizer track.
2. Open the clip editor in PIANO ROLL mode (Alt + P).
3. In the top key menu, select the key of C and the Minor scale.
4. Enable the Scale Fold button. The keyboard will compress down to only the 7 notes belonging to the C minor scale.
5. Use the pencil tool to draw a melodic line on the time grid without any risk of tonal clashes!

🔮 Tutorial 4: DSP Effects and the Lorenz Chaos Modulator

1. Open the mixer panel (F1) for your synthesizer track.
2. In the effects rack, add Filter and Delay.
3. Add a Lorenz Chaos modulator in the modulation rack.
4. Drag the modulator card's handle to the Cutoff knob in the Filter effect (or right-click the Cutoff knob and select "Add Modulation" → Lorenz Chaos).
5. Set the modulation depth to 40% by dragging the modulation ring around the knob. The synth's timbre will begin to evolve smoothly and organically as the track plays!

💾 Tutorial 5: Exporting the Finished Track (Export Audio)

1. Go to the Arrangement View (F4) and ensure the loop bar covers the entire track.
2. From the main program menu, select File -> Export Audio.
3. Choose the target format (24-bit WAV or FLAC), enable the TPDF dithering option, and click Export.