Arcade Explained
Studio wiz Eli Krantzberg presents a set of instructional Output Arcade video tutorials! Arcade is a deep virtual instrument with enormous creative potential - both in beat-making and sound design. These tutorials will help you quickly find your way and start getting the most out of this powerful plugin. These videos are for new Output Arcade users.
Videos
• Welcome to Arcade 2.0 (04:57) - In this video, you'll get an idea of what this plug-in does and an overview of the terminology used to describe the different hierarchies used to navigate its content.
• Browsing (07:05) - Explore the four main browsing tabs - Feed, Search, Lines, and Your Stuff - and see how to find and load sampler kits.
• Getting Started with Sampler Kits (04:42) - Hear how the modifier keys (black notes) alter the sample playback and also learn how to transpose the whole kit. Eli also demonstrates how to retune any actively playing samples in real time using the Playable Pitch keyboard.
• Getting Started with Note Kits (03:06) - Note Kits are playable multi-sampled, chromatically mapped instruments. Discover how a Note Kit is used to create a melodic line and see how the Tweak page is easily used to modify the sound by changing the source assigned to any of the three layers used in the Note Kit.
• Getting Started with Samples (04:35) - Next, explore how to download and combine samples taken from different kits or different lines into new Sampler Kits.
• The Kit Generator (06:08) - Watch as this tool, which incorporates a choice of slicing modes and FX presets, is used to create a new user kit from an audio sample.
• Modifying the Modifiers (05:00) - In this video, learn how to use the release modes, sub presets, and copy/paste settings between modifier keys.
• The Repeater Modifier (05:33) - Explore the Repeater Modifier and hear how it's used to play repeats forward or backwards, play through a sequence of steps at different volumes, and lock the repeated area to the nearest grid value based on beat division.
• The Resequence Modifier (08:51) - Learn how this modifier slices up and reorders the playback of a sample. Markers are set up and then resequenced for playback with each step at potentially different volume, speed, length, and direction.
• The Sample Kit Mixer (05:04) - Use the Mixer page to edit volume, pan, and send values for the individual samples in a kit, and set up return effects and master insert effects to process the whole instrument.
• The Note Kit Mixer (04:41) - Learn how to control and process the three sources used in Note Kits separately, how to set up send/return effects, and how to process the full instrument using the Master insert effects slots.
• Sample Edit, Waveform, & Loop Markers (08:16) - Explore the Sample Edit tab in the Sampler kits. Learn how to edit sample start and loop points, filtering, tuning, playback speed, amp envelope settings, loop direction, and more.
• Note Kits Layer Edit Page (05:42) - Discover how to load and modify layer sources by adjusting their amp envelopes, filter settings, and loop parameters.
• Note Kits: Advanced Layer Edit Controls (06:43) - Explore some of the potential sonic manipulation available using Arcade's filter and pitch envelopes, as well as glide, flutter, and other per layer settings.
• Sampler Kits: Advanced Panel (05:27) - Here, Eli demonstrates how the Modifier Block influences the playback of an entire kit when selected notes are disabled from responding to modifier keys, how sync mode influences sample playback, how formant influences timbre for the triggered samples, and how velocity is used to modify volume, filter cutoff, resonance, and formant values.
• Editing Macros (05:25) - Learn how to edit and create assignments to the four macro sliders.
• LFO Modulation (06:38) - Explore the LFO modulation parameters and hear how they're used to alter sound-shaping parameter values in repeating cyclical patterns.
• Step Modulation (05:12) - Discover how rhythmic patterns are shaped using the step modulation features applied to filter cutoff on the master FX of a Sampler Kit.
• Creating Your Own Kit (06:56) - Follow along as an accompaniment for a rap vocal is built up using a combination of external third party samples and Arcade samples.
• Customizing Your Own Kits (10:04) - In this final video, Eli shows how the basic kit created in the last video is tweaked with some edited modifiers, additional samples, LFO modulation, sample specific modifier blocks, additional master effects, macro slider mapping, MIDI Learn, and automation.
• Arcade 2.2 Arpeggiator (13:18) - Learn all about the new three layer arpeggiator available in Arcade 2.2. Up to 8 segments of fully customizable step sequencing patterns are available per layer, along with independent control over volume, speed, repetitions, pedalling, arpeggiator pattern shapes, velocity, duration, chords, octave range, panning, and probability; and more.