UVI Soul Drums Explained
In this comprehensive UVI Soul Drums video course, veteran Groove3 instructor Eli Krantzberg takes you on an in-depth tour of UVI's Soul Drums virtual instrument. You'll learn how to make use of all the preset kits and grooves, program your own beats in several ways, edit individual drum sounds, add and tweak various built-in effects, and much more. By the end of the Should Drums course, you'll know it inside and out and will be ready to make use of it in your very next production. These videos are for new Soul Drums users.
Videos
• Soul Drums Walkthrough (10:21) - Take a quick tour through the interface and see how to customize the play and mix parameters for each kit element, including the unique 14-channel bleed matrix, digital and acoustic layers, send and global effects, ambience mics, grooves, MIDI mapping, and more.
• Customizing the Kits (06:11) - Go through a typical real-world scenario where a preset kit and groove are chosen and then modified as needed to fit the desired sound for your arrangement.
• Utility Kits & Utility Grooves (05:56) - Get an idea of how the utility grooves and utility kits are used to help you get started with part of your beat or part of your mix setup.
• Snare Drum Articulation & Mappings (08:09) - Explore the variety of alternate snare drum stick and finger articulations and some ideas on how to incorporate them into your drum parts.
• Hi-Hat Articulations & Mappings (06:33) - Discover the variety of stick tip, shank, and foot articulations available for the hi-hat and some ways of using them in your sequencing.
• Cymbal Articulations & Mappings (04:21) - Explore the various ride and crash cymbal articulations available and get ideas on how to incorporate them into your programmed grooves.
• Working with the Toms (04:50) - Explore some ideas on how to best use the alternate hits for each of the three toms and how to incorporate their rim click sounds into grooves.
• Percussion (03:11) - Get some ideas on how to work with various clap, tambourine, and stick sounds included with Soul Drums.
• Working with the Brush Kit (07:11) - Explore ways of incorporating the various snare drum brush sweep and tap articulations into your programming.
• Working with the Grooves (07:52) - Follow along as several grooves and fills from different categories are strung together to create a drum part for a short arrangement.
• Processing the Sounds in Soul Drums (07:07) - Hear how the bleed matrix, built-in effects, and sound shaping parameters within Soul Drums are used to tweak and add polish to the sound of the individual elements as well as the overall kit.
• Processing the Sounds in Your DAW (03:40) - Learn how to route the individual and ambience elements in Soul Drums to independent tracks in your DAW for processing with third-party plug-ins.