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The following clips are not musical tours de force. They are intended to be simple examples of how to use the plug-in...

This is a simple pattern of one kick and one snare all played at constant velocity (Not very musical). It is the starting point for the next four examples...
This is the same pattern but now with the velocities related to the color intensity of a fractal. Several of the original hits are now missing. Some of the snare hits have become grace notes before or after a louder hit. The kick varies in volume. The loop repeats over 4 measures.
The hits are in the same positions relative to each other but repeat over 2 measures at half the tempo. The underlying fractal has been altered. The centre of the pattern seems to drift as you listen to it.
The influence of the fractal has been turned down (contrast) and velocity across the fractal (gain knobs) has been manually adjusted to make a quiet version of the previous pattern.
The original snare pattern at twice the tempo with a slow kick. Fractal contrast has been turned down and velocity across the fractal window is varied using the gain knobs.
A snare roll using the exponential swing function.
A pattern of 14 closed hats and 14 open hats offset 75% apart. The 7 cowbells are pairs of hits nudged backwards and forwards until they sounded right. A fractal is providing the velocity variation with no manual adjustments.
A swinging snare/tambourine pattern using gather and swing parameters in combination.
A bass riff made with groups of root, octave, fifths and sevenths moved around until something interesting emerged. It has a 3/4 feel. A fractal provides some velocity variation.
The previous bass riff made into a twelve bar blues. The MIDI was exported to a piano roll editor and the relevant measures simply shifted by either a fourth or a fifth.

The following clips are an example of building up a complete drum pattern. Groups of 7 hits are combined with groups of 5. A kick/snare pattern is made on page 1 of the plug-in, congas are added on page 2 and hi-hats on page 3.

7 kicks and 7 snares are combined with a group of 5 snare hits. Just 3 drum lanes are used to create this pattern.
7 low congas combined with 7 high congas and 5 muted congas. 3 drum lanes are used.
7 closed hats combined with 7 open hats and 5 pedal hats. 3 drum lanes are used.
The 3 above patterns played together in the plug-in.
(The drum machine in this example is the demo version of Sonoma Wireworks DrumCore3 running in FL Studio. DrumCore3 is a nice demo as it includes a couple of drum kits and a lot of other percussion. Also, you can assign each drum item individually to one of eight audio outputs which makes it easy to apply different effects processing.)