Native Instruments AbbeyRoad 60s User Manual - page 18
Abbey Road 60s Drums – User’s Manual – 18
line). You can customize the relationship between velocity and volume with the
VEL -> VOL
knob.
The higher the knob value, the more that velocity will relate to the volume of the played sound.
Finally, you can change the lowest and highest velocity values with fields above
RANGE
. This
is useful for preventing the quietest and/or the loudest sounds from playing, and instead be
limited to the specified minimum and maximum.
The
SNARE MIC BLEED
knob controls the overall level of the bleed from the snare bottom mi-
crophone. Snare mic bleed is a common sound in acoustic drum recordings, but sometimes
it can add additional unwanted sound. With this control, you can adjust the volume of this
bleed, as well as turn these snare bleed samples off if not desired (thus purging the samples
from your computer’s memory).
The controls in the
RANDOMIZE
area add custom levels of humanization and variation in the
sound output. The higher the values of the knobs, the higher the range of randomization for
each control. The randomized parameters are:
•
VOLUME
: The volume level of the played drum increases or decreases by a random amount
with each hit.
•
VELOCITY
: The velocity of the played drum will increase or decrease slightly, which can
trigger different samples above or below the one at the original velocity.
•
TIME
: This will add a slight random amount of delay to each hit.
•
PITCH
: The pitch of the played drum will be higher or lower by a slight amount with each
hit.
•
EQ
: This will slightly change the frequency curve of each hit. Different drums have differ-
ent frequency ranges, specific to the sound of each drum.
The
EXCLUDE DIRECT MICS
option allows the samples of the direct mics to be excluded/included
with the Volume, Pitch and EQ randomization parameters. Randomizing the sound of direct
mics is often more obvious than randomizing the sound of overhead or room mics, so it can
be desirable to exclude them while still applying randomization to other mics.