€˜Cell’ handles the housekeeping, allowing you to name/rename the cell, set the midi channel(s) and key range that will trigger it (or use the learn function which, sensibly, allows setting of key range direct from your controller) and set up voice groups (which, amongst other things, allow you to more accurately simulate the way a drummer plays a kit by preventing an open and a closed high hat from sounding together). The output section is simply that, offering just master volume, pan and routing controls and the edit pane is completed with a window containing six tabs labelled ‘cell’, ‘map’, ‘mod’, ‘filter’, ‘comp’ and ‘loop’. The modify section provides controls for ‘tuning’, ‘saturation’ (which can be set to a negative as well as a positive value), ‘bits’ (surely that should be bitz?) which allows you to adjust the bit rate from 16 down to 6 and ‘hertz’ which allows you to reduce the sample rate all the way down to 1KHz, making for great low-fi FX. The envelope section displays the sample waveform, simultaneously superimposing on it the pitch and one of two selectable amplitude envelopes, which can be individually adjusted or switched off completely. The edit pane is divided into four main sections. Once you’ve loaded your samples you can edit each cell’s parameters using the edit pane beneath the sample matrix area. The list of files supported is extensive and includes Kontakt, Battery, wav, aiff, HALion, Samplecell, LM4, Gigasampler, REX/REX2 & Akai S1000/3000…amongst others…and you can load a total of 128 (which don’t necessarily have to be drum/rrrhythmic samples)…into each cell! Right click on one of these cells, choose ‘add sample’ and a browser window opens, allowing you to audition samples before loading them. I was expecting Battery 2 to be a beatbox on steroids, but actually, it’s da beatz without da box…in other wordz, it’s a drum sampler.Īt its heart is a drum/sample matrix selectably viewable as either 12 or 9 columns by 6 rows, giving a total of 72 or 54 cells reeeespectively.
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