Beat Transformer and Beats Page Updates
Beats Page Updates
In Addictive Drums 1.5 Adrenaline the the Beats Page has been updated with two new great features. The Beat Transformer is a very useful tool for editing and altering your MIDI Grooves in real time. The MIDI Library Filter makes it possible to view certain MIDI file librarys one at a time making browsing for your beats easier. This video shows you how you can use the MIDI Library Filter and the Beat Transformer in Addictive Drums. Browse edit and alter the beats and grooves while you listen to them. Everything happens in real time.
Video: Beat Transformer
This video shows you how you can use the new updates in the beats page; the MIDI Library Filter and the Beat Transformer in Addictive Drums. Browse, edit and alter the beats and grooves while you listnen to them. Everything happens in real time.
Beat Transformer - personalize your beats
The Beat Transformer gives you very effective tools for altering and changing the beats and grooves in the library. Make them softer, louder, slower, longer, shorter, simpler, more complex. The Beats Transformer makes your beats and grooves personalized. You can make all these changes while the beat is playing giving you instant results. When you are satisfied with the changes you simply drag and drop the beat into your host and your edits will follow.
Speed
Alter the tempo of any beat to different levels, half/double speed, 67%, 75%, 133% and 150%. This is useful when you want to turn a “6/8 shuffle” into a “4/4 triplet shuffle”, or the other way around, or just for pure experimentation.
Length
Use this feature to alter the length of the MIDI file. If you set the length to 8 bars, all AD beats become 8 bars long when dragdropped. Simple but effective: If the original length is 2 bars, it is repeated 4 times. If the original beat is 16 bars, only the first 8 bars are used.
Velocity Intensity
This control lets you edit the velocity of the MIDI files. Make the beats softer or louder or make hard hits softer and soft hits harder with the filter sliders. This is a very effective tool for changing the sound and feel of the beat. For example, make a soft PopRock beat sound like a Metal beat by turning the velocity all the way up!
Velocity Filter
This control lets you filter out hits outside a given range that you can tweak. For example you can filter out the soft hits, so called ghost notes to reduce the “busyness” of the groove. By filtering out loud hits, you can keep ghostnotes but remove the “main hits” on kick and snare, useful if you already have these going in your track and are looking for that extra groove spice that can really glue a drum track together.
The MIDI File Library Filter
Filter out the MIDI file libraries you want to browse with the new MIDI File Library Filter. Choose a MIDI file library in the drop down box and you will be able to view this in the beats list. This is great when you know wich MIDI files you want to work with and want to cut the browsing to a minimum.