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EastWest 102 - Tools for Pop, Rock & Electronic.
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1
What is the main difference between the Master channel Strip effects and the other channel strips?
The master channel strip is a VCA fader, unlike the individual channel strips
The master channel strip is where the convolution reverb and bus compressor are located
The master channel strip is where the multiband compressor is located
The master channel strip has no effects. Only the individual channel strips have effects
2
In MOR2, what are ‘performances'?
Performances are actual riffs played by real guitar players on the instrument that is featured in the MOR2 library.
Performances are used as a real-time capture tool for getting a scratch track from a played lick that was never meant to be recorded. Play is always listening. ALWAYS.
Performances are mixer snapshots that are cycled through as you play a guitar library. These snapshots are used to automate a mix.
Performances in MOR2 are a new Multi-timbral mode used for playing multiple guitars at once.
3
What are the ‘J37' Channel strips in ProDrummer?
The J37 was a specific german microphone that was used to record certain drum elements. Often described as a ‘condenser that sounds like a dynamic mic'.
The J37 Denotes the type of drum shell that is being used. It is from Joe's custom Maple kit that he brought into EastWest for his sessions.
They were designed by Joe Chiccarelli as drum elements that had been recorded to tape. These elements should be used instead of the clean elements if wanted, for they may cause phase issues due to wow and flutter.
The J37 channel strips are to be used in conjunction with the other channel strips as a resonating membrane. Sympathetic reverberation is provided by a mathematical model of a 2 dimensional membrane
4
What are ‘Taped' drums in the Ghostwriter library?
Taped drums are drums that were recorded to cassette deck
Taped drums were simply drums that were recorded with tape placed on the drum heads to dampen the sound
Taped drums are multi-sampled drums that were created by reversing and re-recording taped drums to give them an interesting, pre-lapped sound
Taped drums were recorded to analog tape and run through a digital mastering system before being laid back to yet another tape machine
5
In the Ra Player, what are ‘Grooves'?
Grooves are quantization templates that were performed for the Play engine by professionals. They are used to create a timing template for the Ra libraries.
Grooves' are live performances played by masters of whatever instrument is selected. They are meant to be played to add a level of authenticity to a given work. MIDI performances can only capture so much emotion.
Grooves are personal selections by the library's producer. These deep selections are considered the cream of the crop when it comes to overall performance, playability, and feel.
Grooves are used to create complex groups of instruments to be played in the multi-timbral mode. Grooves can be cobbled together from elements and live performances that are loaded into the library.
6
How do you add the Ra library to the Play engine?
Located the System Menu item for the Play engine, click on it, then choose the library from the dropdown menu.
In the finder window, find the Ra Play engine icon. Under ‘Services', add the Ra library to the Play engine.
Control-click in the lower left library area in the browser window, and add the library location.
Open a browser, locate soundsonline.com, and add your library under ‘Installations and Registration'. A window will pop up asking for your administrative password. Enter your password and the Play engine will see the library.
7
What is ‘wah'?
Wah is a dynamic filtering effect
Wah is a tape emulation of ‘wow and flutter'
Wah is an amplitude effect
Wah is a pitch correction effect
8
What was the original player for EastWest libraries?
Kontakt
EXS24
Mach 5
NNXT
9
What is legato ‘sensing'?
Legato sensing is only engaged when you extend the note offs of your performance so that the notes are overlapping by 400 ticks or more.
Legato sensing is an intelligent script that decides whether or not to engage legato mode depending on the performance of the composer.
Legato sensing automatically changes note end values to engage legato mode.
Legato will activate legato when 2 notes are held simultaneously and disengage when one of the notes is released.
10
What is legato scripting?
Legato scripting is used to add latin nomenclature to an instrument for orchestration purposes, even if the instrument is from the Middle East, india, or the Far East.
Legato scripting is a way to adjust the attack and release of a given instrument to indicate that an instrument is being either bowed or plucked.
Legato scripting is a coding language developed by East West for the Play engine to automatically call out the articulations that are happening at any given moment and feed that into the DAW of choice.
Ra has the ability to analyze a performance by the composer and determine when a note needs to be re-triggered. When legato mode is engaged, the instrument will glide between note seamlessly with no retriger.
11
How are groups used in MOR2 drums?
The groups are used for mixer automation in the mixer section, and are triggered by the automation mode of your DAW.
Groups are a way to normalize the volume levels across multiple mixer channels in the mixer section. Rather like an automated compressor.
The MOR2 drums are created as a multi-timbral instrument that has different groups that are assigned to the same channel. This makes selecting different groups of drums much easier for mixing and matching kits.
Groups are used to route the audio to the multiple outputs of the mixer section.
12
When using the African drums in Ra, how are the different drums laid out in the keyboard?
The higher frequency elements are usually found in the the higher octaves, including stick effects. The lower octaves are usually lower pitched drum elements.
The drums are laid out in a chromatic fashion, low drums on black keys and higher pitched elements on white keys.
The drums are laid out according to the General MIDI protocol for drum set.
The drums are laid out in a tritone starting from C. Each ensuing white note on the keyboard has a tritone family member that plays the round robin articulation of the instrument type.
13
When the Play browser is loading ProDrummer, how does the GUI change?
The browser is organized by icon instead of column
The libraries are hidden behind a disclosure triangle
There is no keyboard at the bottom of the interface
The browser is replaced by aa OS X finder window
14
Where do you take care of the panning of individual articulations?
In the Player's articulation window.
In the Player, under the panning menu item.
Only in the mixer.
In the browser when the library is first being selected.
15
What is the Timeline, and how does it work?
The timeline is where you can drag individual drums to create a custom kit that plays in ‘breakbeat' fashion. A sequenced loop maker with built-in effects.
The timeline is a metered indicator that intelligently analyzes your song and creates and arrangement automatically
The Timeline is where grooves can be placed to follow your song arrangement
The timeline is a project backup system that keeps iterative saves of whatever song you are working on at the time
16
What do you get in different octaves of the electric guitars of Ghostwriter?
Harmonics, Chugs, and squeals
Chugs, Mutes, and harmonics
Chugs, Up strum and down strum
FX, palm mutes, and Round Robin samples
17
How can you force legato mode on in the Les Paul libraries?
Choose ‘Force Legato' from the main menu.
Choose the legato articulations from the articulation list in the lower right of the player.
Choose ‘force legato' from the browser window.
De-select the ‘triggered legato' button in the Player.
18
How do you create a drum arrangement in ProDrummer?
Open the Grooves tab, pick a groove via the browser, then drag that groove to the ProDrummer Timeline
Open the Groove tab, then drag the grooves to the tracks area of logic
Grooves can be dragged into the ProDrummer timeline from the Finder window
Grooves can be dragged into the timeline from the browser
19
What is different about the drums in Ministry of Rock 2 vs. the other libraries we have seen in the course?
The drums have a small, simple mixer in the Player area.
The MOR 2 drums are recorded in an abandoned nuclear power plant. How metal is that?
The MOR2 drum kits are jazz kits that were intentionally played in a rock manner.
The MOR2 drums were mixed by Lars Ulrich of Metallica.
20
What is one of the ways that Middle Eastern instruments differ from similar western counterparts?
They are not different at all. This is a western presumption
Color and weight
Played in a ‘Di Gamba' style, rather than under the chin
Intonation and Character
21
What does ‘Round Robin' mean?
Round Robin is a way of transforming modulation information into MIDI note information
Round Robin is a pitch effect where when you run past MIDI note 127, you are given an extra bank of 127 notes.
Round Robin is when you use keyswitching to choose different articulations of an instrument
Round robin is when a different sample is used for each hit when hitting the same key multiple times.
22
What is mid-side processing?
Mid-Side processing was used in the ‘60s to emulate the effect of a player double-tracking their part to tape to create a more interesting stereo effect
Mid-side processing is when the center speaker in an LCR speaker array can be used to accentuate the panning of a sound from left to right. This is achieved by attenuating the amplitude of a signal as it passed through the center speaker.
Mid-Side processing is a process where the audio material that is exactly the same between the left and right channel is separated from the content that is different in both channels to be processed independently
Mid-Side processing is an imaging process that is created when some audio from the left and right channel is selectively swapped to create a more compelling stereo image
23
Why do some of the instruments in Ra have the same pitched note an octave apart?
The octave is the next harmonic in the harmonic series that can be accentuated for clarity
The octaves are a safety device. If the lower octave sounds are overwhelmed by polyphony, Then the upper octaves take the load away from the lower systems.
Having the instrument spaced out in octaves is a design decision that seems to help guitarists feel more comfortable
This allows for easy tremolo of an instrument, or things like up/down picking.
24
How do you use the ‘Elements' version of the Telecaster library?
In the Player, you need to select which articulations to use for the instrument. These can be blended in creative ways.
The elements are selected via mod wheel and velocity.
The elements are selected via mod wheel.
The elements are selected via keyswitching.
25
Sometimes, instruments will load very quickly in Ghostwriter, and others will take a bit longer. What's the deal?
Instruments that are loading quickly are automatically loading into RAM. Be sure to check your RAM buffer after they load.
Some instrument variations are being created simply by different production techniques. The samples loaded are common. These variations don't have to reload samples.
Some instruments were created using compressed audio files types, while others were created using PCM audio files.
Instruments created in an older version of play may load a bit slowly due to the new Play architecture.
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