Whereas DrumSpillage provides 16 separate drum pads within which you can use synthesis parameters to design percussive sounds, so Elecktroid provides eight, which lie in the upper section of its main page. Despite this, it costs less than DrumSpillage and is offered via a GUI which is a good deal more attractive and easier to work with. Whereas DrumSpillage bases its rhythmic foundations on comprehensive drum synthesis techniques, so Elecktroid is a fully-fledged drum machine, with synthesis, sample-playback and sequencing capabilities all contained within.
#ELECKTROID MAC#
If DrumSpillage wasn't enough to tempt you to check out AudioSpillage's wares, Elecktroid may prove harder to resist if you're a Mac user.
#ELECKTROID SOFTWARE#
Despite some gentle misgivings about the darkness of the GUI, I hugely enjoyed the flexibility DrumSpillage provided and it's one of a number of software drum synthesizers enjoying popularity now. AudioSpillage may remain a company name with which you're unfamiliar but if it does ring a bell, it may be because you were persuaded to try DrumSpillage, the Mac-only drum plug-in which I reviewed in May 2011.This entry was posted in Elecktroid, Manual, Tutorial and tagged Elecktroid, Rhythm Programming, Step Editing, Step Sequencer by Stephen. More shortcuts will be added to the graphs in the future. To reset a control to its default value Alt (⌥) + click on a bar. Instead they scale the existing parameter value in the Elecktroid user interface. The parameter controls don’t set absolute parameter values. The lower two (green and yellow) may be assigned to any parameter available from the drop down menu on the left. The top control graph (red) is hard wired to MIDI velocity giving you a nice graphical representation of the track dynamics. This is a very powerful feature and allows you to program all manner of sonic variety into your rhythms. Tracks in Elecktroid also feature 2 control graphs which can be fully customised to control almost any parameter in the plugin. You can also reset all the last step markers in the pattern by selecting ‘Clear Last Steps’. Here you can copy/paste/erase tracks and patterns. Right click on any track to open the track menu. To copy a track Alt (⌥) + drag a track to the desired target track. In copy mode the mouse cursor changes to an up/down style icon. Simply click and drag a track to move a track (the dragged track and the target track will swap places). To nudge right move the mouse cursor to the right side of the track.Ĭopy mode allows you to move and copy/paste tracks within a pattern. To nudge left make sure the mouse cursor is in the left hand half of the track. Nudge mode allows you to shift an entire track left or right in single step increments. In nudge mode the mouse cursor changes to a left/right style icon depending on its position in a track. The editing mode can be selected via the S/N/C button (Standard / Nudge / Copy) The sequencer defaults to standard editing mode which is everything covered so far in this article. Alt(⌥) + Shift(⇧) + click to set all last steps simultaneously.Shift (⇧) + click to set step as ‘last step’.Alt (⌥) + drag up/down to change step ‘probability’.Command (⌘) + drag up/down to change step velocity.For example you may have a kick drum looping every 16 steps but other percussive sounds may loop every 5, 7 or 9 steps creating a kind of ‘poly-rhythmic’ effect. Coupled with the step probability feature Elecktroid is capable of some very unique and dynamic drum rhythms.
Custom Track LengthsĮlecktroid features custom track lengths for each track in a pattern. Experiment with this feature to get a feel for how it affects your rhythms. This allows you to create non repetitive patterns that vary subtly over time or sound radically different with each pass. 25% = a 1 in 4 chance and 75% means 3 out of 4 triggers will fire for a given step. What does this do? With a probability value of 50% there is a 1 in 2 chance of the step firing. Step ProbabilityĮlecktroid allows you to assign a probability value to any step in a track. Steps default to 100% velocity (loudest) and 100% probability (always on). Velocity and probability values can be assigned to any step. When on (red) the step fires and when off the step passes silently. Combined these features allow for the creation of very dynamic rhythmic material.Įach step in the sequencer is a simple on/off trigger switch. The sequencer section in Elecktroid provides 8 drum tracks and a number of advanced features such as custom track lengths, step probability and control graph editing.
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