

Tone in - No-fuss EQ for the final touchġ. De-polish - Squeeze & distortion will add lots of character to your kit.Ĥ. Go to your room! - A very nice built-in reverb module.ģ. A dozen of noises - There are 12 sound slots, each with selectable sounds + lots of individual settingsĢ. If you're looking for a drum instrument, giving you 'instant gratification' from the first hit, this is it. On top of all, Slammer comes with a set of factory presets, covering anything from light and slick to heavy and gritty. The amount of “dirt” and reverb can be tweaked individually for each instrument. There’s also a “Dirt” section for distortion and compression, a reverb, and tone control. Integrated custom-built real-time effects combined with some clever routing makes Slammer a versatile and flexible virtual instrument that is capable of rendering anything from natural acoustic to heavily distorted and compressed drum sounds.Įach sound can be customized with a wide array of settings like pitch, filtering, effect sends, decay time, velocity mapping, and much more. Slammer is a multi-sampled drum plug-in that contains 30 different instruments made from a large number of carefully recorded and edited samples. More shortcuts will be added to the graphs in the future.Instantly fun drumming with carefully sampled drums 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.

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.
