East West Quantum Leap Ministry Of Rock is a library understanding the necessary instruments to take up a group of virtual rock / metal: guitars, basses and drum kits. Is bet kept when they know the difficulty in reproducing in a realistic way the game of a guitar for example?
First of all, concerning drum kits, there are 4 kits: 2 vintage kits, 1
soft kit and a kit more metal (used by
Metallica). The different elements of the drum kit are mapped on the keyboard of interface Play: bass drum, snare drum,
toms,
cymbales... It is therefore easy to construct a midi loop from these elements. The quality of recording is very good, notably kit Black really powerful. It is besides even possible to combine several kits to choose such snare drum, such bass drum... Kits being in fact gathered in one and the same
keyswitch for which they deactivate the elements which they do not like to use.
There are several types of basses according to the piece: jazz, rock, metal, vintage... Basses offer different articulations:
sustain, mutates, staccato,
slide,
bend who allow to construct a realistic benefit. Job will be more consequent on quick pieces (type doubles metal eighth notes) to avoid effect '
machine - gun', that is to say repetition the same
samples breaking realism. The game on articulations is therefore very important.
From my point of view, innovation comes especially from offered guitars. The choice can be made between guitars
lead, in
power chords, in stroke or arpeggiated chords. What marks at first, it is the quality of recording. The sound is powerful, clean and rich. Every guitar was recorded via two amps, the one ineffectual (recording ' dry ' to be able to apply its own effects later) and other one with a pre-regulated amp (distortion,
EQ). It is possible to topple over from an amp to other one or to accomplish a combination of two.
Concerning guitars offering
power chords, classics stayed chords or in palm mute are found. The
mapping on the keyboard of interface Play is a little confusing. They sometimes feel a pain to know how are divided chords on different octaves. It will be necessary to test to have answer.
An acoustical guitar allows to play stroke chords or in arpeggio (
maj, min, 7, 7min). The speed of the arpeggio varies according to the mod wheel
(mod wheel). One might as well say that without this rowel on a master keyboard, it is going to be necessary to lose a negligible time to automate it in the sequencer. It is a pity that two
keyswitches are necessary: the one for chords minor others for major chords. He would have been more judicious to construct the only one or even one by range possibly.
Guitars Lead more held my attention. Being myself guitarist, "real " / "virtual" comparison seemed interesting. First official report, sound quality is much better than any amateur recording. Of course everybody has no professional studio at home. What is it performance and realism of game? Articulations try to reproduce the expression maximum:
sustain,
legato,
slide,
bend effects, vibrato, (
mediator, whammy-bar). On the whole, nothing is missing. Main difficulty will consist in giving life to the guitar, in treating on transitions. It will be well necessary to play on articulations and to vary game. These guitars have a rather characteristic and recognizable sound (effects, vibrato...) and therefore to distance itself from others it will be necessary to show imagination not to come back into clichés adding characteristic effects of the guitar (whammy-bar, various noise).
In interface Play, they will deactivate generally
Delay offered by default who is only corrupting the sound in an unpleasant way. It will not be rare to add reverberation to enrich environment. As well as to play stereo on will allow to reproduce the effect of
Haas and so to bring more thickness in the guitar.
In conclusion, East West Quantum Leap Ministry Of Rock is a solid library offering easily exploitable quality instruments. It will be often necessary to work game to bring some realism and to produce his own sound with the intention of distancing himself from others.
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