Even though the Ethno Instrument gives you a tremendous amount of control over the sound of each loop and phrase, you may encounter situations where you would like direct access to the loop itself, for further editing, processing or arranging. And what better way than to use your favorite audio workstation, waveform editor or audio sequencer software? For this reason, Ethno lets you drag and drop loops and phrases directly into the audio tracks of your host audio software (if it supports standard Windows or Mac OS X drag & drop functionality).

Dragging and dropping loops and phrases

You can drag and drop from the plug-in version of Ethno or the stand-alone version. Loops and phrases drag and drop as standard audio clips (regions) in your host software, where they can be freely handled as normal audio.

Dragging and dropping sliced loops

You can drag & drop sliced loops as MIDI data into MIDI tracks in your host software for unlimited reprogramming using the MIDI sequencing features of your host software. Working with loops has never been this quick, easy and flexible.

The example below is the same Balkan audio loop as shown above, except that the "Map" button has been pressed. Now it will drag & drop as MIDI data into the MIDI track. Each MIDI note triggers a slice of the loop. You can quantize the MIDI notes to quantize the loop, or perform many other tasks on the MIDI data to completely transform the loop. You can also play the slices "live" from your MIDI keyboard, drum pad or other MIDI controller.