DAMAGE

DAMAGE propose 30 Go de drame, fusionnant sons industriels et batteries d’orchestre en un déluge déchaîné de sonorités électro-acoustiques. Les kits de percussion offrent plus de 200 sources de percussions échantillonnées avec le plus grand soin, et plus de 500 coups seuls, enregistrés dans 7 couches de vélocité (maximum) et jusqu'à 9 allocations de voies par son.

Plus de 700 boucles tranchées par beat sont présentées par groupes ou isolées pour un ajustement détaillé. Même les sons les plus complexes sont instantanément utilisables, tout cela dans une qualité terrifiante et « grand écran ».

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DAMAGE propose des ensembles de boucles (Loop Menus) et des boucles seules (Single Loops). Les « Loop Menus » sont des boucles prévues pour fonctionner ensemble, intelligemment réparties au clavier pour une création rapide de grooves synchronisés au tempo. Mélangez des boucles de styles différents pour créer des rythmes uniques et complexes.

Les presets « Single Loops » allient un contrôle détaillé et une jouabilité intuitive : ajustez le niveau, le pan et le tuning de chaque tranche, et utilisez les déclencheurs « key-triggers » pour renverser, rendre aléatoire ou geler les tranches, en temps réel.

DAMAGE offre 58 kits de percussions multi-échantillonnées, élaborés à partir de plus de 200 sources sonores méticuleusement enregistrées, et de plus de 500 sons seuls. Ces kits hybrides combinent des instruments de percussion et des objets échantillonnés, pour produire des effets dévastateurs, injectant puissance et personnalité à toute production.

Les « Damage Hits » uniques consistent en impacts et résonances superposés pouvant être contrôlés séparément au moyen de la molette de modulation. Parfait pour les attaques et les transitions.

Trois niveaux d'effets sont liés aux boucles et aux kits - appliquez les effets globalement, déclenchez des effets de performance ou ajustez les sons individuellement :

Les Master Effects contrôlent distorsion, réverbération, délai, saturation, et plus.

Trigger FX (voir image) sont des effets en temps réel pour une perspective incroyable de destruction de sons intuitive et créative.

EQ et filtres apportent réglages simples mais efficaces par batterie, officiant particulièrement via le bouton « Punish », pour une saturation distinctive et une couleur personnelle. réglez le thermostat à la chaleur désirée !

"Our goal was to break new ground by combining traditional drums with found-sounds to create a unique sonic blend. In our journey to capture an eclectic mix of percussive instruments, we decided early on that recording sources in multiple locations with different configurations would give DAMAGE the depth we were looking for.

We captured sound sources at Heavyocity’s studio in New York, Prism Sound Studios ‘The Church’ in Boston, Skyline Studios’ A Room in Manhattan, a junkyard in Connecticut and other locations."

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"Over the course of two years, we captured in-depth recordings of unique percussion. Over 26,500 samples were recorded at 96 kHz, 24-bit (all meticulously downsampled to 44.1 kHz 24-bit) using state of the art equipment, including SSL and Neve large format consoles, API, Wunder, Neve and Avalon Mic pre/EQs, and AKG, Mojave, Sennheiser, Lawson and Neumann Microphones.

A large part of DAMAGE’s deeply-sampled material consists of ensemble-style recordings. We captured these ensembles so they would deliver detailed performance dynamics (most with 9 round robins and 6 velocities) and a wide range of impact."

"Staying true to the Heavyocity sound, we injected a darker, more aggressive side to DAMAGE (thus its name). We created high-impact one-shot hits by layering processed sounds, EQed with a $h!t-Ton of bottom.

One real standout kit is the signature ‘DAMAGE Hits’, providing devastating cinematic hits with unnerving tonal pads controlled with the mod wheel."

"Manipulating the source material once it was captured was an equally important part of developing DAMAGE’s unique sound.

With Heavyocity’s ‘Music-Meets-Sound Design’ approach, we’ve always used a lot of outboard gear, plug-ins and layering of unconventional sounds to achieve inspiring sonic results."

"The DAMAGE GUI (Graphical User Interface) was a challenge. It had to be intuitive and inspiring, and incorporate both the rhythmic suites (loops) and the percussive kits (multi-samples/one shots). Instead of a one-size-fits-all-approach, we created GUIs for each instrument type.

We wanted the interface to exude a gritty attitude, and make people want to get their hands on it. After months of brainstorming and many revisions, we found just the right balance between functionality, playability, and plenty of attitude."

"DAMAGE provides simple, intuitive ways to alter the sounds without leaving the interface. You have control over EQ, Filter, Tuning, and a wide range of master effects (Distortion, Lofi, Reverb, Delay, Compression). In many of the percussive kits, you also have the ability to tune, filter, and equalize each drum individually.

In addition to the master controls and effects, every preset contains the signature Punish Knob. Combining saturation, distortion, compression, and limiting, the Punish Knob creates an effect that can be both musical and devastating."

"One key feature for the multi-mic kits is the ability to place the drums in the stereo field. The Stage tab, found in presets with deeply sampled percussion and cinematic single-shots, allows you to quickly and easily place a drum in 1 of the 35 positions on a ‘stage’.

Using the three Master Mixer faders, you can easily change the decay characteristics and balance of the close, room and hall mic positions. You can also solo and mute each mic position, or decrease the sample footprint by purging unused microphone positions."

"With such a diverse collection of percussive loops, we wanted to provide a way to radically alter the grooves. The single loop ‘modifier’ controls allow you to reverse the order, stutter, skip, and randomize the playback of the loops’ slices on the fly. We actually exceeded our own expectations here — you can twist and reshape the loops into entirely different forms, making these little monsters your own.

You can change the tuning, level and pan of each slice. And for detailed rearrangement, just drag the loop’s MIDI data into your host sequencer."

"With expanded control parameters, DAMAGE’s T-FX page builds on the successful ‘Trigger FX’ introduced in Evolve Mutations 2. Using your MIDI keyboard, you can add Punch, Phaser, Rotator, LoFi, Glitch FX, Pitch Sweeps, Filter Sweeps, and Delay to loops and single-shot drum kits, to mangle and tweak on the fly."