In other words, out of probably ways to play a guitar, VG gave you , but it was incredibly fast and easy to use, and real. Instrument virtuosos have all our admiration, but if music history depended only on them — where would we be, right? And of course, over the 10 years we left VG up for grabs, we all continued to think about it, and these ideas went into the new series. T hat is why there are now way less controls and at the same time more realism and depth.
Joey: As we understand from the release notes for IDT2, it makes it even easier for content creators to create Rack Extensions. What more can you share about it? What makes it different from the original IDT? Because why should you have to be a programmer to build great instruments and effects?
In this particular release, we made a special effort to significantly upgrade the user experience and functionality for RE developers.
We replaced the former IDT instrument editor by our brand new editor, which is a true cross-platform editor running on Windows and macOS. A major SDK functionality upgrade is user sample loading, which means that people can now build REs allowing users to use their own audio content.
In the future, we will focus on adding even more customizability and on making user interface creation dead-easy. What were your responsibilities in that position and what might we recognize as result of your involvement? I went to Stockholm, looked at it, found it to be not only possible but also very interesting, and that was that.
I also bought fully into the project by tieing my fee to success. But there was also a special development program to foster Rack Extension development by brands only known in the VST world at the time. StringWerk by e-instruments as well as Rack Extensions from Heavyocity and Soundiron came out of that, to name a few.
From the credits in the manual, we learn that the samples come from your personal Waldorf Wave sample collection, originally recorded in and remastered. That is very cool! Can you tell us about your experience and relationship with the Waldorf Wave?
It started one day at Frankfurt Musikmesse when I saw an early prototype in a vitrine, and I felt like seeing the light. In I produced a record for Waldorf, and I could suddenly charge top dollar for studio jobs when I brought it. I quickly figured out by accident that people wanted to like my tracks better when I played them on the Wave no matter where the audio came from. Long story short, at some point I realized that the most powerful sounds from the Wave were those where you stacked 8 voices per note a standard Wave had 16 voices.
So I sampled them and put them into my Akai sampler, where I could now play them with 32 voices of polyphony or the equivalent of Wave voices. In the last 3 years I had been looking for ways to put these samples into a virtual instrument for my own purposes, and when I saw LAYERS come out last year, I thought that was the perfect platform for them and so easy to do.
Some of the partnerships with the companies you mention came about because we rented our expertise to them. Because we have a pretty unique combination of both deep musical and instrument understanding AND music-agnostic hardcore cloud, hardware and system-level expertise, we had an edge on most of the industry. A nd for a time we were happy to provide that to the industry, investing the profits into stealthily building our own stuff. How many employees? Are there several departments working on different things at the same time?
We grow every year, this year going on 40 people. Would you say the mission is still the same? Peter: My role is always changing, as is the role of everybody else in the company, and that is mainly because in UJAM our product is not only music tech, but also company culture. We work very hard to be and become a self-organized, non-hierarchical company, because not only is this the most efficient way to work in the field of innovation, but it also replaces business roles by competence and enables every person on the team to be what they want to be.
Talking of enabling people: That part of our mission has never changed. Can you tell our readers what they are? And as with everything, we always create Rack Extension versions of them.
These are our first products in the RE world under our own brand, with support from our friends at Propellerhead. Joey: How did the Beatmaker series come about? Mellow is impressive. Scaler 2 is used for chord block in two vsti synths. Hahaha I had not thought that BB reference, you should focus more on music!
LOL :. I use Reaper, the native bridge is a blessing! BTW, Sven is a genious! No need to transpose anything in Scaler, or use groupings. Three note and four note chords work great with a minimum of fuss.
I believe Ableton uses in it development. Note that midiForceToRange would work with other guitar plugins as well that do chord recognition outside the range that Scaler normally provides.
I am a bit confused why you think the pattern database is very very poor for UJAM guitars. There are 50 different styles in Amber, and each style has 12 patterns so that is different patterns. The pattern speed can be changed from half time to double time.
Plus there are an additional 23 common phrases available no matter what style you choose. It can really be driven over the top, especially in combination with the Mix Presets.
Pressurize uses multi-band compression to condense the signal, and cut through the mix. Groovy percussion for popular styles Make your tracks move and shake with guaranteed feel. Why does it still lack taste? Think of salt as a spice — working dutifully in the background, a little bitter when consumed in masses. But no dish will come to full expression of flavours without it. Same goes for pop songs and percussion. Groovemate ONE quickly and easily spices up your tracks with that important feel.
Just select one of the ready-made phrases and adjust them to your needs. The secret of the vibe-machine: Percussionists often use sophisticated patterns that work against or around the basic beat and emphasis, such as 3-over-4 and syncopations.
With Groovemate ONE, you just browse through the presets and pick what works for you. Pick a Preset Create your music without overthinking!
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Few things can bring about that sense of poetry and pure sonic pleasure. Your heart swells when you hear it. String sections emphasize emotions and can elevate a song from great to outstanding. Played by top-of-the-crop players, with the best equipment, room and engineers money can buy.
As opposed to other orchestral libraries and instruments, you will find no solo instruments here, and no control over intricate details like bowing techniques.
Just choose a Preset and play immediately. Forget about the usual tedium of working with string libraries, just load the instrument and compose incredible things within seconds! Using two fingers! The Highlighter knob is a multimode 24dB synthesizer filter specifically optimized for creating juicy risers and intros. Turn the knob left for a low pass filter, turn right for a resonant high pass.
Descriptions of styles and phrases are displayed on the piano roll to help you find the right ones faster and easier for your track.
The chord track feature in Studio One automatically follows the chords and automatically changes the MIDI notes for you. Maximum retro-futurism for digital drums: Everyone knows and loves the vibe of science fiction and horror movies from the s.
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Dial-in the tempo of your host from half to normal to double speed. Export patterns to your DAW. Simply drag them from the on-screen-keyboard and drop them into your track. GLORY is the virtual beat maker for all kinds of trap and modern hip-hop. Where heavy, tuned kick drums meet frantic hi-hats at the top of the billboard charts. For many tracks in these genres, the beat is so essential that they do away with most other elements, if not all.
Start with a beat, maybe layer some melodic loop on top, and leave plenty of space for the vocals. They can cut through a mix and provide plenty of bass. GLORY features 10 kits with 16 drum instruments each. There are 20 Styles with 23 ready-made patterns each, for a total of patterns. Plus: Easy access to all the effects you need to make punchy contemporary beats that will — quite literally — leave an impression.
Much easier than with an actual Tried and tested in Hollywood, these exclusive plug-ins make cinematic drums and strings accessible for anyone. Programming realistic cinematic tracks can be daunting. They take care of the details, so you can focus on your music!
The custom-made Finisher effect section is a one-knob sound design delight. Perform your tracks with the crossfader. Seamlessly blend between them, or add subtle variations by automating. These beats run deep.
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