same method so what's up guys I promised that I would show you how I controlled
the string ensemble in my last video with the seaboard flock watch my last
video where I showed you how I made cinematic type of music with Native
Instruments in particular the contact libraries and one of the contact
libraries I used called string ensemble and controlled it with a seaboard
because I really wanted to control the vibrato and it's super simple to do them
actually gonna add a bonus here I want to show you how I map the control of a
choir and the sounds that they make to the slide function on the Seaboard block
this works just as well on the litepad block so let's get started here's the
song that I created for my cinematic music video emotive strings I've also
got session strings but the one I want to focus on today is string ensemble and
I loaded the cellos essentials and also the Rolly blocks dashboard program
that's included with the Seaboard block there's only two things that you're
going to look at one is use MPE we're gonna uncheck that and next pitch
Bend range you want to set that at 12 12 semitones is the maximum pitch Bend
range in contact so we're gonna match the seaboards pitch Bend range with
contacts so we're done with blocks dashboard right now let's go into
contact and the next thing you're gonna do is you're going to click that little
wrench icon or spanner icon click that and now you'll be able to edit some more
details about this instrument click on group editor you can specify which one
of the presets option things that you're going to be editing we want to edit all
of them so that all of these instrument settings will respond to the Seaboard so
click Edit all groups then you can close the group editor under mod you'll see
pitch Bend so you want to set this all the way up to
12 so now the pitch Bend range matches the one we set for the Seaboard
in the blocks dashboard there it is now you're set and we can start playing if
you look down lower here to the left of the keyboard on the screen you'll see
that pitch Bend shift up and down as I'm applying the vibrato
now that's a very subtle vibrato you can actually exaggerate the vibrato by
adjusting the pitch Bend range in blocks - for it well that's really exaggerated
let's set it to two now when I play it
that's super exaggerated that's it so now let's see what we can control with
the choir on this new channel I've loaded contact and we're going to find
the choir sound in the contact factory library under choir we're gonna choose
vowel morphs this is going to be fun so let's choose a to e now here's what that
sounds like
that's the AH now when it's morphs and the way you do that is use the morph
thing here but instead of using this knob wouldn't it be nice to just slide
your finger from down here to up there it's super easy here's how you do it
again go to the wrench icon at the top left click the mod button click Edit and
you'll see now the morph knob here to map anything to the slide function on
the c board or on the like pads you want to map it to MIDI CC number 74 if you
right click it now you can choose external sources and then choose MIDI CC
and now you can assign it to the MIDI number and I'll type in 74 I think I can
type in 74 here too and that should do it let's try it out
it works what isn't that super easy another thing you can do is you can
control the after touch so how hard you press the key on a seaboard after the
first press so that's mono after touch let's see
what happens if we assign it to amount so again I right-click them out external
sources click on mono after touch so now
you see a mouth go up
that's it you've done it now you can apply similar
things to other instruments in the contact libraries now we're controlling
three of the dimensions up well actually four because we've got
strike in there as well four dimensions of the seaboards 5ds of touch boom
awesome don't have fun so that's it super easy right if you liked this video
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