XO Explained

Studio wiz Larry Holcombe presents comprehensive XO video tutorials! This useful plugin from XLN Audio, which helps you organize your samples, contains a myriad of features that make beatmaking fun and efficient, and this course will teach you everything you need to know. Larry takes you through all the plugin's components and demonstrates each with useful examples, so you'll be ready to incorporate XO into your workflow before you know it. These videos are for new XO users.

Videos

• Interface & Multi-Outputs (07:52) - We introduce the series in this video and cover the interface in detail. We also explain how to use a multi-output instance of XO.

• Space View Pt. 1 (08:14) - Next up, we focus on selecting sounds based on similarity and hot swapping sounds to audition them within our beat.

• Space View Pt. 2 (05:10) - Discover how to filter your sounds so you can hone in on exactly the right sound.

• Edit View (09:07) - Explore the edit options next, including adding fades and changing start/end points, panning and stereo width, adjusting the sound's transient, pitch, and tone, and also routing options.

• Sequencer (11:51) - Next up, we look at the Sequencer, including programming notes, rolls, and velocities, adding accents, and injecting that all-important groove and swing.

• Beat Combiner (04:10) - Learn how the Beat Combiner allows us to combine different drum hit sequences to vary the groove. This is a powerful way of fine tuning your beats for the perfect rhythm.

• Sample Combiner (05:48) - Discover the Sample Combiner, which allows you to mix and match similar sounds to create instant beat variations. This can also be done using the filter to focus the search.

• Master & Send FX (05:18) - Next up, we investigate the Master and Send fx, allowing us to add crunch, clipping, and also a combination of delay and reverb to the whole kit and/or independent channels.

• Exporting WAV & MIDI from XO (05:16) - Explore the extensive export options, which give you the ability to transfer processed and unprocessed wav files (for kit or channel) and also complete beat MIDI files.

• Adding Samples (02:18) - We cover a very important feature of XO next: the ability to incorporate your own sounds into the plugin. This means that XO can act, for all intents and purposes, as a front end to every single drum hit on your computer!

• Scaling & Settings (00:53) - Discover how to scale the GUI in this video on the Settings tab.

• XO Preset Browser (05:25) - This video will show you how to use the Preset Browser effectively, such as organizing and favoriting presets and also effectively auditioning your beats with similar sounds.

• Example Beat (11:30) - We bring together the principles covered in this series next by creating an example beat in XO.

• Changing Kit Pieces (09:02) - Finally, we look at ways in which we can vary our example beat by combining different beats and samples for happy accidents.