NTONYX Announces DrumWalker 1.4 MIDI Plug-In for Cakewalk
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April 12, 2001NTONYX has announced DrumWalker 1.4 - a MIDI FX plug-in for
Cakewalk software, capable of converting a standard MIDI track into a Sonic
Foundry Vegas Drums project. DrumWalker 1.4 is an easy way to create a
Sonic Foundry Vegas drums project on the base of a
Cakewalk/Sonar drum MIDI track.
By selecting a drum track in Cakewalk and launching
DrumWalker, you can very easily assign your WAV-files (up to 3 Mb in size)
as samples to each drum and start Vegas. As the result you get a separate
track for each individual drum in Vegas and separate clips for each drum
stroke, where the loudness of a clip is calculated individually on the
basis of the velocity parameter. DrumWalker makes it possible to
define the following settings which can be used in the Vegas project:
- Control of the Sample dynamics with the help of three modes: Normalizer,
Expander, Ultra-Maximizer
- Attack and release time for each drum
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Interaction of Front Attack and Back Release parameters with the time
interval between the played notes of the same drums
- Interaction of Front Attack and Back Release parameters with the Velocity
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Independent Envelope control (Soft, Line, Hard, Smart) of the Attack and
Release for each drum; automatic generation of the envelope in Smart mode
based on the Velocity parameter
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Pitch Shift in the range -12 to +12 semi-tones for each drum
- Each Vegas track can be processed by DirectX Plug-ins. The obtained result
is later mixed down by Vegas into a stereo WAV-file for subsequent insertion
into any unoccupied Cakewalk audio track, if necessary.
Sonic Foundry Vegas in combination with DrumWalker 1.4 can be used not only
as a multichannel mixdown software, but also as a drum
"sampler". The unique feature of such a sampler is a wide dynamic range and
extremely flexible channel-by-channel editing of every sample for each note
of the MIDI part in the process of the final mixdown.
Additional Features
- Preview (audition) of WAV-files and launching from within DrumWalker any
stand-alone third party Wave Editor for WAV-file modification
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Preset saving of all DrumWalker user-defined settings
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Automatic recall of file paths and quick access to the folders containing
WAV-files
- DrumWalker comes with an Acoustic GM Demo Set and Electric GM Demo Set (each drum
as a separate sample).
System Requirements
DrumWalker 1.4 (MIDI FX plug-in) works with following Cakewalk software:
Sonar 1.0, Cakewalk Pro Audio 9, Cakewalk Pro Audio Deluxe 9, Cakewalk Home
Studio 9, Cakewalk Guitar Studio 2, Cakewalk Pro Audio 8, Cakewalk Professional
8, and Cakewalk Home Studio 8.
DrumWalker 1.4 is compatible with Sonic Foundry Vegas Pro 1.0, Vegas Video
1.0 & 2.0, Vegas Audio 2.0 and can use WAV files supported by Vegas,
including 32-bit 96 kHz, normally not supported by hard- and software
samplers. For more information, visit their web site at www.ntonyx.com. |
