Skybox Audio | Hammers and Waves: Deep Dive and Walkthrough
Skybox Audio's Dana Nielsen and composer/keyboardist Ethan Cohen walk us through the groundbreaking modern keyboard collection, Hammers and Waves. Sampled with beyond-human precision by robotic automation, Hammers and Waves is a 10 instrument keyboard collection like nothing you’ve ever played. Built on Native Instruments' powerful Kontakt engine with over 500 highly-curated, meta-tagged, easily tweak-able presets and a truly innovative user interface, this unique software instrument collection has quickly become the 'go to' for award-winning musicians, producers, composers, songwriters and educators, worldwide.
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00:00 Intro
00:35 What went into creating Hammers + Waves
02:20 Modern Grand
03:22 Modern Grand Main and Source pages
05:05 Velocity curve
06:35 Blend knob — dialing in close vs far mics, or amps vs DI
08:43 Color and Shift knobs
11:18 Shape knob
12:04 Octave
12:20 Pre Strike
12:41 Strike
14:08 Sub
14:41 Noise
15:08 Gate
16:43 Realism
18:27 EP 200A
18:55 DI-Amp blend knob
21:01 Choosing amps, mics, cabinets
23:18 Presets and Previews
24:47 Space knob
28:40 Swarm and Fractals
29:34 Swarm page
31:50 Intensity knob
33:15 Octave knob
33:54 Adding Space to Swarm
34:53 Animation
38:38 Swarm Envelope
39:45 Fractal engine
42:21 Skip function
43:47 XY Animation
44:48 Adding Strike to Fractals
47:12 MIDI CC “learn” for tactile control
51:14 Modulation routing
51:49 The Relic and the birth of Billex
57:03 FX Page
01:03:59 The Rhodes
Watch the video manual here:
• Hammers + Waves - Main Page Explained
Hear all of the default presets in action here:
• Hammers + Waves - Modern Grand - Default S...
Hear all 500 inspiring included presets here:
• Hammers + Waves - Modern Grand - Preset Pr...
Find out more about Dana Nielsen at: https://hello.dananielsen.com/
Learn more about Ethan Cohen, Founder and CEO of Noise Engine LLC:
http://noiseenginellc.com/