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Nota Drum Rack

Nota Drum Rack plays a different sound on every pad. Load one-shots or instruments onto the pads, give each its own effects, and program it from the piano roll or the Pattern step grid.

Nota Drum Rack with the Volta kit: the pad grid and the selected padNota Drum Rack with the Volta kit: the pad grid and the selected pad

Kits

Section titled “Kits”

The kit picker in the card header loads any of the 25 factory kits in place, and names the kit the rack holds: Volta, Kompakt, Micron, Linnwood, Atelier, Cellar, Neon, Foundry, Terra, Aether, Brass Room, Breakline, Bunker, Pixel, Velvet, Circuit, Yard, Byte, Lagoon, Titan, Shuffle, Mirrorball, Pit, Hyper and Crate — from warm analog and 80s PCM to jungle breaks, amapiano log drums and orchestral percussion.

Each kit has 16 pads on the General MIDI map (notes 36–51), hats choked together, its own swing and humanize, effects on the pads (kick saturation, snare and clap reverb, hat delay) and its own macros. The sounds are synthesised on first launch, and appear in the browser’s Files tab under Nota Kits, ready to drag anywhere.

Pads

Section titled “Pads”

A 4 × 4 grid, pad 1 bottom-left as on hardware, in banks C1–C4 (16 notes each, up to 64 pads).

  • Click a pad to play and select it. A sounding pad lights in its colour.
  • Drop samples on a pad to load them (several fill the pads after it); an empty pad also offers an instrument.
  • Right-click a pad to rename it, set its choke group, open its chain or remove it.
  • Fold hides the empty pads. Swing and Humanize shape the kit’s feel.

The Pad panel on the right edits the selected pad: its one-shot with a playhead, Volume, Pan, Tune, Decay, the choke group (pads in one group cut each other — open and closed hats), and its instrument’s editor.

Mixer, Chain and Macro

Section titled “Mixer, Chain and Macro”
Nota Drum Rack, Mixer viewNota Drum Rack, Mixer view
  • Mixer — the bank’s loaded pads as rows: volume, pan, mute, solo, choke.
  • Chain — the selected pad’s device chain: its instrument and its own effects.
  • Macro — the kit’s eight macros, mapped onto pad controls, pad instruments and the pads’ effects.
Nota Drum Rack, Macro viewNota Drum Rack, Macro view

Programming

Section titled “Programming”

Double-click the clip and use the Pattern tab in the detail panel for a step grid with a row per pad — or the piano roll, where each pad is a note. Audio clips dragged from the Arrangement land on the next free pad.