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Chapter 14 Ultrabeat 389
Increase the performance dynamics of your 808 snare
1 Reduce the values of the individual volumes by turning down the Volume knobs in both
oscillators and the noise generator. Note how the mod ring and its via sliders also move back.
Change the via slider positions until all three Volume knobs look like this:
If you use diering intensities for each Volume knob when completing this step, you’ll have the
potential of individual velocity reactions for each sound component.
2 Increase the dynamics of the sound as a whole by assigning the following setting to the Voice
Volume knob:
You now have an 808 snare that is exceptionally responsive to velocity. As you may know, this
wasn’t possible with the original—not even an 808 sample could oer the dynamic volume
control of individual sound components that’s demonstrated here. A sample oers you only the
whole sound, not its constituent parts.
In the next step, you use velocity to control the character of the sound—individually for each
component—plus volume, of course.
3 Choose Max from the saturation mod pop-up menu of oscillator 2, and then choose Vel(ocity)
from the corresponding via pop-up menu.
4 Set the additional control that appears as shown in the gure below, to control the character of
the sound with velocity: