Curto Drum Software

The Curto Drum Software was developed to be a simple drum application as the name suggests. It is easy to use.

Well, you must see a list of instruments on the left(which can be changed),and all you have to do to add a drum note is, click on any white box you want and the instrument (to the left) corresponding to that row, will be played. Click whatever you want to create some good beats and click on the play button and it will start playing.

You can change the number of beats per bar,by clicking > buttons at the bottom. This change will occur only when you click the "clear all selections" button before doing so.

You can change the tempo (before you start playing)by changing the position of the Tempo slider at the bottom. You can also change the volumes of individual instruments in a similar manner.

You may want to repeat a certain number of bars. You must have a starting point and an ending point for this. To do this, just right-click on the thick line at your starting point and select repeat.Next just select the thick line at the ending point and again right-click and select repeat.

From the dialog box that appears, type in the number of times it has to repeat and click Okay. Thats all. You can click play and it will repeat as you wanted it to.

If you didn't utilize all the bars in your drum beat,and the remaining is just a waste and is consuming time,just right right-click at the point where your beat ends and select either "Repeat till here" or"End it there". Note that you will have to  right-click on a box which is part of the two unused rows in the middle of the top and bottom playing areas(the boxes to the left of which you see no instrument name). Just try it and you will figure it out.

When you are done editing your file,you can save it as a .beat file and open it and play it(If you get problems while double-clicking while opening the file try File->Open).