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In this issue’s Plugins Quick Guide, we’re parameters and capabilities. ADM CM is a
looking at AudioRealism’s ADM CM, a virtual special exclusive version of AudioRealism’s
drum machine that not only provides accurate commercial ADM instrument, which also
ADM CM is based on AudioRealism’s
emulation of Roland TR-606 sounds but also has emulates Roland TR-808 and TR-909 drum commercial ADM plugin – check
the ability to play back samples and includes machines – find out more and download the it out at www.audiorealism.se.
250 awesome drum sounds from the sample ADM manual from www.audiorealism.se/adm.

>Outputs/Options >Instrument Parameters

>Pattern Control >FX Section

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> Step by step Using ADM CM in Pattern and Note modes

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Load ADM CM in your DAW. Let’s see Now click BD (bass drum) to highlight Now enter a different bass drum
how Pattern mode works first. To edit it. Click the ‘step’ buttons at the pattern – anything will do for this
the current pattern, click Ptn Write/Clear bottom of the interface to make the demonstration, as long as it’s not the same
to activate it. You can now add steps to the pattern above, with a kick drum on every as the previous pattern! Next, create a
step sequencer. By default the AC (accent) beat. When you’re done, click the Pattern two-bar MIDI sequence on the ADM CM
button (on the far left of the Instruments ‘up’ button to switch from Pattern 000 to track in your DAW where the first bar plays
Parameters section) is highlighted. Pattern 001. C-2 and the second bar plays C#-2.

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Now the first bar will play Pattern 000, Delete the existing MIDI notes, then on Velocity levels of 100 or over will play
and the second bar Pattern 001. Note ADM CM’s interface, click the Mode the hits ‘hard’, and anything less will
that using the MIDI note to change the switch to toggle it from Ptn to Note. You’ll play them ‘soft’. You can get more control
pattern doesn’t change the position of now find that playing notes from C1 up over the volume level of hits by changing
ADM CM’s internal playhead. You can triggers the instrument’s various sounds. the MIDI Velocity Mode to Multi via the
switch between up to 128 patterns like This has the advantage of allowing you to power button menu. The downside of this
this. Clicking the Pattern button reveals create patterns with more precise timing is that you can’t use the ADM CM’s accent,
more pattern programming functions. than you would with the step sequencer. shuffle or flam options.

>Instrument Parameters
Each of ADM CM’s instrument sounds has different parameters,
and some have different functionality across different sounds
even if they have the same name. They also have varying
functionality depending on whether you’re using ADM CM’s 606
emulation or samples. Thankfully, the parameters are pretty
simple and intuitive, so we suggest experimenting with them. If
you want to find out about them in more depth, consult the ADM
manual at www.audiorealism.se/adm/ADM_Manual.pdf.
Some instruments have a switch for toggling them between
two sounds, though as ADM CM doesn’t include sounds from its
big brothers the 808 and 909, these don’t serve any purpose in
this version. The LED displays at the top of each instrument’s
row show the sound source it’s playing back – 606 for the
instrument’s drum machine emulation, or SPL to show its
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>PATTERN CONTROL
This section controls the internal step CM. You can enable Sync to toggle
sequencer, apart from Volume, which between internal and host tempos.
is the master volume, affecting the Mod toggles between using external
main output only. Steps sets how MIDI input to select patterns or
many steps the sequencer uses, from trigger the instruments directly.
1 to 32; to edit steps after the first 16, The Pattern parameter controls
you can flip the Edit Steps switch to which of the 128 patterns is currently
toggle between steps 1-16 and 17-32. selected. Flam mode allows you to
Shuffle Amnt controls the amount add flam to specific steps – to use it,
of 16th-note shuffle. This only affects activate Flam Edit and click a step to
the internal sequencer. Ptn Write/ set it to flam, indicate by the light
Clear must be activated to add or above the step. The delay between
remove notes from the sequencer. If the first and second hits is determined
you hold Ctrl/Cmnd and click this, by the Flam Amnt. Prescale changes
the pattern will be cleared. the timing of the pattern and can be
Tempo lets you select an set to 16th-notes, 32nd-notes, eighth
independent tempo (BPM) for ADM triplets and 16th triplets.

>FX SECTION
ADM CM’s FX section features two separate effects: a filter with
band-pass and low-pass modes, and a distortion effect called
Mangle. The filter must be activated before it can be used, by
clicking the On/Off toggle at the bottom left-hand corner of this
section. The Cutoff and Q work exactly like the cutoff and
resonance controls in any standard effect, as do the envelope
controls: Amount, Attack and Decay. However, the envelope
needs to be triggered from the step sequencer on specific notes.
To do this, activate the PCF button at the bottom of this section,
and left-click any steps you want to activate the start of the
envelope on. A quirk of this PCF sequencer is that you have to
right-click steps to deactivate them, rather than simply clicking
them again as you can using the other sequencers. It’s also worth
noting that when the PCF button is activated, adjusting any
parameters will cause them to be automated. The BP/LP toggle
switches the filter between band-pass and low-pass modes.

>OUTPUTS/OPTIONS
By default all ADM CM’s sounds are routed to the main stereo outputs, but
a variety of other routing options are available by right-clicking the output
at the top left-hand corner. This gives you the choice of No Routing (where
all sounds are routed to the main stereo outs) or Multi Out (where each
drum sound gets its own individual channel). There are also four different
common routing presets. You can define your own routings by right-
clicking the 11 outputs after the first one, which represent ADM CM’s
11 instrument channels, and selecting an output channel. Clicking
the power switch brings up a menu where you can access ADM
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CM’s MIDI learn capabilities and other settings. If you right-

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> Step by step Using ADM CM’s automation capabilities

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It’s not possible to automate ADM Activate the Ptn Write/Clear button, Select step 1 by clicking the tiny LED
CM’s parameters directly from your then click the BD button and program light above it. Turn the Tuning knob
DAW, but it does have a MIDI learn a pattern with a bass drum trigger on on the BD strip all the way down to -12
capability that’s accessed from the power every beat of the bar. Next, click the PCF semitones. You’ll notice that a small red
button, and it also features its own built-in button. When this button is activated, square appears around the Tuning knob.
automation functionality that we’re going moving parameters will automatically This means that ADM CM is going to
to look at now. Load ADM CM in your DAW. create automation. automate this knob on playback.

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Now select step 5. You’ll notice that When you’re done, click the BD button As the beat plays back, the Tuning
the Tuning knob snaps back to 0 again, which will deactivate PCF mode knob snaps around to hit all the
semitones when you select this step. This so you can change parameters without positions you set it to in PCF mode. If you
time set the Tuning knob to -4 semitones. having to worry about creating unwanted can’t hear the effect, turn up the Mangle
Using the same method, set step 9 to +4 automation. Press the Play button at the knob to distort the kick and make it more
semitones and step 13 to +12 semitones. bottom left-hand corner of the interface obvious. Note that each pattern has its
and the beat will play back. own discrete automation settings.

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