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Beat Studio First Setup: MIDI and Audio

Set up Beat Studio for your e-drum kit in a few minutes: connect your kit and headphones, map your pads, and get your sound and timing right before you play.

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  1. Use Drum Module Sounds in Beat Studio: Wiring Guide

    Connect your electronic drum kit to hear your module's own sounds while you train in Beat Studio, with or without an audio interface: every cable explained.

  2. Map Your Drum Pads in Beat Studio: MIDI Mapping Guide

    Map every pad of your electronic drum kit in Beat Studio with the Mapping Wizard or by hand, including rim zones and the hi-hat pedal, then test each pad.

  3. Use Beat Studio Sounds With E-Drums: Wiring Guide

    Connect your electronic drum kit to play Beat Studio's own sounds, with or without an audio interface: which cable goes where and which output to choose.

  4. Windows Audio Output Modes in Beat Studio Explained

    Choose the right Windows output mode in Beat Studio: Auto, Exclusive, Shared or Exclusive while training, and fix other apps going silent while you practise.

  5. How to Edit a Drum Pattern in Beat Studio

    Use the Beat Studio pattern editor to add, remove and move hits, set velocities, copy and paste sections, record from your kit and line the grid up with a song.

  6. How to Import a MIDI or Guitar Pro Song Into Beat Studio

    Import a MIDI or Guitar Pro file into Beat Studio on its own or with an audio file or URL, and sync the drum track to the original recording's real tempo.

  7. How to Extract Drum Hits From Audio in Beat Studio

    Use Extract mode in the Beat Studio pattern editor to detect kick, snare, hi-hat and crash hits from a song's drum stem and turn them into a playable pattern.

  8. How to Build a Drum Kit From a Song's Drum Stem

    A step-by-step Beat Studio workflow for cutting kick, snare and tom samples from a song's drum stem, shaping them, and playing the song on its own drum sound.

  9. Meet SENS — the knob that makes your kit feel right

    SENS reshapes the velocity curve on each drum channel of the Beat Studio mixer — boost ghost notes, tame hot pads, and dial in how every drum feels.