Pick a snare sound or other percussion instrument you want and play it in time with your loop.
You can play your loop while you test the new sounds. Click on to Rack 2 in the bottom of the window, click in the first slot, and go to Synths/MuTools/ROM/Percussion/Drumset. Next, let’s add additional percussion, such as snare. If not, go to Edit/Undo Recording and try again. Hit the Rewind button in the transport bar and hit Play or your spacebar to listen. Now you will see a colored bar in the track 1 section between your loop locators. A window will then come up prompting you to name this track. Hit the C2 key in time with the metronome. In the Transport window, click the white Record circle icon it will turn red and the metronome will give you a four-bar count-off before recording. You can also use your computer keyboard to play the virtual keys by clicking on the Keys button to the far left of the virtual keyboard and selecting “QWERTY.” Below the piano keys you will see which QWERTY key plays which note you can reassign which note is played by double-clicking in the white note boxes and typing in new notes. Press a key on the virtual keyboard with your mouse to test. The name of Track 1 will change to “Electro Kick.” If you don’t have a MIDI keyboard connected, go to Edit/Show Virtual MIDI Keyboard. A little window will come up allowing you to change the kick’s parameters, but you can ignore this for now and just close it.
Go to Rack 1 at the bottom of the program window, click on the first slot, and from the resulting browser window navigate to Synths/MuTools/ROM/Percussion/Electro Kick. Now we’re going to build our loop track by track, starting with the kick drum. Then, in the Transport window in the top middle of the program window, click on the loop icon under the red metronome icon to the right. Drag the right-hand one to “5” to set a four-bar loop. In the top left of the track window, you’ll see a pair of curved arrows. Next, assign your MIDI inputs and outputs under MIDI Setup. Once you’ve launched MuLab FREE, make sure your correct output device is selected by going first to the Edit menu and then Audio Setup. For this tutorial, we’re going to record a basic four-bar loop.
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