Native Instruments have had plenty of requests from users who want access to the S4 hi res code, but you have to understand simply opening it up to user tweaking like the S2 and X1 wouldn’t be straight forward due to it’s size, features and the large amount of modifiers the S4 standard map use’s. Meaning if Techtools wanted to make an S4 version of this map they would have to apply it to S4’s midi mode, which completely miss’s the point of the Eans S2 map’s jog based performance features. Unlike the S2 and X1, Native Instruments don’t allow user access to the S4 Hi Res NTL code. If it was possible to apply this map to the S4 don’t ya think Techtools would of done it since day one?! Maybe if people bothered to read the articles properly and understand there software a bit better maybe there wouldn’t be so many people asking/demanding the same “make an S4 map” question! I will give you a hint – don’t use your eyes, because there are a lot of things happening in the mix that are not shown on camera. Now with a solid insight into the video, watch the performance again and see if you can pick out the techniques with your ears. This work around gave me the best of both worlds- one shot sounds with loop style syncing. In this manner, I can re-trigger the one shot if I want them to loop or just let them play out and fade nicely to black. Lame! So, to give things a little more life I mapped my one shots to also sync to the master tempo and cut each one shot with a little trail after 16 counts. Loops are too repetitive and don’t have a nice soft ending unless you ride a fader. Pressing the jog wheel at 8-clock sets a 1/4 note moving back to six switches to 1/2 and up to twelve – 16ths.ĬORE CONCEPT 4: One shot loops timed to the master clock.With the beat repeat, using a combination of the masher and filter allows you to cut in the kick or snare creating some pretty epic fills, all perfectly in time with the track. By doing this and tuning the relative values, I can predictably find other notes and start to learn the “instrument”. For example, pressing the beat repeat wheel grabs a 1/4 repeat every time. In addition to turning on an effect, the jog wheel press sets the effect values to a specific musical value. This was especially amazing in the final chorus where the vocal track gets doubled in this eerie harmony that was totally un-scripted. For the drums there is less randomness built in so I can reliably play patterns of 1/4 notes or 1/16ths, but for the vocals I invited random magic to creep in. This means that depending on how fast you spin the wheel or how far it is thrown, many random possibilities can occur. The rate and acceleration on each effect is different so they “compound” at different speeds.Each effect is being controlled in a relative fashion.Each jog wheel is mapped to control the rates of three effects.Instead of hard mapping one effect to the jog wheel rotation I used the following technique: This was the first time I used this trick on a jog wheel, although it does exist in our Midi Fighter ProBeat Masher mapping. CORE CONCEPT 2: Combining relative values = random madness! Since the down press engages the Beat Masher, it allows you to reliably “grab” a part of the song and work it in or out. Turning it in either direction modifies the values of those effects.Pressing down on the jog wheel turns on an effect.Listen to the hihats at the start of the video and see if you can spot it. The accuracy is so tight that I was able to get a nice pitch wobble by barely moving the wheel. I first introduced this concept in 2008 on the VCI-100 SE but took it to another level with the s2’s high resolution HID connection which gave me very precise control over the range. CORE CONCEPT 1: Jog wheels turn on and control the effects. Check out the explanation above and then dig into the article for a deeper look into the details. The wait is over and we have an exclusive inside look video from my shoot that day. The response to my recent NI demo video featuring a live Depeche Mode remix was great, but a LOT of people asked for the demo on how it was done.
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