Native Instruments AbbeyRoad 60s User Manual - page 14
Abbey Road 60s Drums – User’s Manual – 14
Each drum can be selected by clicking on it with the mouse. This will also play the sound
of that drum, giving you a quick preview of the sound. After selecting a drum, the name and
controls for that drum will appear in the panels on the right. The
uppercontrolpanel (with
the
MIC BALANCE
slider) holds the controls for all of the sounds of a selected drum. The
lower
controlpanel holds controls for separate articulations of a selected drum.
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If the
SELECT BY MIDI
function (top right of the instrument graphic) is activated, the drums
will be selected depending on the notes played with your MIDI input device.
The
uppercontrolpanel shows the name of the selected drum. If the snare drum is selected,
you can choose between two different snares using the
1
and
2
buttons next to the name,
which will also change the graphic for the snare drum. These buttons light up red when se-
lected.
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When a new snare is selected, the snare samples have to load before being able to play
the kit.
Each drum has a
TUNE
knob, which can shift the pitch of that drum and all associated mi-
crophones for that drum up or down. There are also
OVERHEAD
and
ROOM
knobs to control the
volume level in the overhead mix and the room mix, allowing you to adjust the relative volume
of each drum in those microphones.
The kick drum, snare drum, and percussion have additional controls in the top panel:
•
When the kick drum is selected, a fader appears that allows you to adjust the balance
between the microphones inside and outside of the kick drum.
•
When the snare drum is selected, you can adjust the balance between the snare top and
snare bottom microphones.
•
When the percussion is selected (represented by a tambourine in the drum kit view), three
icons appear allowing you to choose the tambourine, clap, and stick hit sounds.
The
lowercontrolpanel allows you to select each articulation for the selected drum. For ex-
ample, selecting the snare drum will give an articulation menu showing the different types
of snare hits such as center, halfway, rimshot, flam, roll, etc. (see chapter
4
for a list of all
drums and articulations). Each articulation has its own volume envelope, with knobs for
ATTACK
,
HOLD
, and
DECAY
.