The Drumatrix percussion modelling instrument gives you total control over 10
physically modelled drums that can be routed to independent outputs for
external effects processing:
Great, but why should you care when the internet is awash with fantastic
sounding drum samples? In two words, expressive realism. Once a drum sound is
recorded, the performance and modulation options are limited to filtering,
volume or similar 1-dimensional filtering effects. When a single drum sample
is triggered in a roll you get the familiar 'machine-gun' effect, it just
sounds artificial. Multi-sampled, multi-layered drums can overcome this
limitation but need multi-megabyte or even Gigabyte! drum libraries, and even
then, you are still limited to the sounds originally recorded.
Drumatrix is not based on samples or even commonly used 'synthesis'
techniques, where oscillators are mixed and the result is 'electronic'.
Drumatrix is a truly 'modelled' drum, and not just a single drum, Drumatrix
can model bass drums, hi-hats, snares, realistic and yes electronic sounds
too. But what about the traditional 'Achilles' heel' of synthesis, cymbals?
We have left the best until last, Drumatrix models cymbals & metallic
'ethnic' percussion instruments with ease.
At the core of Drumatrix is a model of the drum-head. Here the vibrating
membrane is represented in a mesh of inter-connected of points, each given
physical properties, mass, inertia, stiffness, damping and all that good
physics stuff. For the musician, this means Drumatrix can model the
drum-head with multiple parameters such as material, thickness, tension and
even shape. More importantly the parameters can be modulated in real-time as
a function of velocity or external controls. The drum body is also modelled,
in terms of material, size, vibration damping and shape. All this gives you
multi-dimensional performance possibilities, a Matrix of variables providing
the almost infinite complexity & subtlety of hitting a real drum.
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