Using the Rhythm Explorer

Using the Rhythm Explorer
Use the following procedure to add rhythmic and harmonic treatments to you songs using the Rhythm Explorer:

Select the notes you want to affect in the current track.
Expand the Transport window, and enable Cue Looping. That way, when you audition each Rhythm Explorer pattern, you can hear the new pattern repeated many times in a more complete rhythmic context.
Choose Rhythm Explorer from the Windows menu.
Click the None button to make sure that no algorithms are selected. (You don't always have to do this, but it's good to start off with simple patterns and move up to more complex ones.)
Use the pop-up menu to select an algorithm to change the rhythm of the current selection.
In the Variability field, click one of the radio buttons to change the variability of the selected algorithms. For example, click the Low button to generate a few patterns that are only slightly different from each other.
Click the Generate button to generate new patterns from the algorithm(s) you selected. Metro generates 8 colored rectangles, representing 8 different patterns derived from the algorithms and variability that you selected.
Click a rectangle. The pattern it represents starts playing (and looping, if Cue Looping is on). You can audition the rest of the current patterns by clicking different rectangles. To compare the patterns with the original selection, click the Original icon, in the center of the rectangles.
Now generate a new set of patterns, by clicking the Generate button. If you like the previous group of patterns better, click the Use Last button.

The color of each rectangle matches the algorithm that you select. If you've chosen several algorithms, and you choose higher variability settings, each rectangle may take on several colors to show that it uses several algorithms at once.

When you find a pattern you like, click Apply to alter the selected data.

Now you can save your file, complete with the alterations the Rhythm Explorer made.