Every individual drum and cymbal can have its own envelope, volume, pan, and tune, or you can change all drums of one type at the same time. You can also map via MIDI learn, and adjust the volume and tuning for individual notes (even if those notes have the same drum/articulation mapped).įor even more power and control, the Drum Tweak area lets you exquisitely shape individual drums and cymbals. Mix and match drums and articulations from different kits, use our mapping presets, or create your own from scratch - it's incredibly easy to use. Pictured above is the Mapping tab which allows for flexible mapping of ANY drum or articulation to most any key. Hihat into snare? Sure! Shreddage Drums gives you complete control over advanced mixing and intelligently unloads mics and bleeds that are not being used. Want your kick to bleed into your snare and tom mics? No problem.
SHREDDAGE X FULL
The Global tab offers even more mixing options including a 100% completely customizable velocity curve with numerous presets, as well as a full bleed matrix. You can also tweak the overhead/room send to each mic which is very useful if you want a tight, focused kick or snare, but wide/roomy hihats and toms. In the image above, note the bus mixer along the bottom which gives flexible control over the volume, panning/width, and output routing of each microphone position. Shreddage uses a simple interface and mapping scheme with low CPU and RAM usage.Shreddage Drums features an extremely powerful KONTAKT engine allowing for total control over drum kit design, mixing, routing, effects, and tweaks. We're confident that with this library, we've proved the doubters wrong! Interface For years we've read that it's simply not possible to have realistic guitar samples without loops.
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Just load up the master patch and prepare to have your face melted. There is still no need to memorize complex keyswitches, excessive midi CC automation or pedal futzing. The portamento time can be reduced to create more subtle legato transitions, eliminated, or kept at max to create dramatic custom slides and dives.Īll this newfound power would be for naught if it were hard to use, so we reprogrammed the patches and kept them as easy to use as ever.
Shreddage X includes true recorded portamento slides on every single note and powerchord, up to an octave. We started by lowering the tuning even further, going from Bb to Ab (the "A" is for "Armaggedon".) We added non-pinched vibrato on every note, for even more expressive performances, then recorded traditional harmonics (with no vibrato) as well as blazing tremolo picking. The Shreddage X expansion pack / add-on goes a step further. Swap out individual patches to tweak your performance multi. Just load and play - each hand gets a different type of articulation, and velocities handle the rest. The Kontakt patches feature a scripted interface that allows you to easily tweak envelopes and EQ, but does not require any sort of fancy keyswitches or MIDI CC control to use. Shreddage requires next to no editing or humanization to sound realistic right out of the box, and thus can be dropped in a track to fill it out, doubling a real guitarist or serving as a highly-accurate placeholder or demo until live guitars are recorded. It's also a great tool for producers and even guitarists! This library isn't just for composers, though it is very easy to use in the context of trailer cues, video game arrangements and other massive productions. The result of this intense design focus (and two full years of research and development) is an extremely playable and realistic instrument. Rather than trying to cover every possible technique or style, it is focused entirely on rhythm playing in a rock/metal style. Shreddage is a DI guitar sample library like no other.