Session Percussionist Explained

If you're looking for a way to add realistic, amazing-sounding percussion to your tracks easily, Session Percussionist is just the ticket. In this Session Percussionist video course, VI guru Eli Krantzberg gives you the lay of the land, covering each control and demonstrating every function, showing you how it's done. You'll learn how to choose and edit patterns, select and edit instruments, create patterns of your own, and much more! These Session Percussionist videos are meant for new Session Percussionist users.

Videos

• What Is Session Percussionist? (07:26) - Learn about the underlying architecture of the instrument and get an overview of how it works and how to access main instrument parameters.

• Ensemble Browser (06:01) - See how to use the various tags and filters to search, audition, and load patterns through the ensemble browser.

• Instrument Browser (04:31) - Use this window to change either the instrument variation or the instrument itself in any of the potential five player slots available in the loaded ensemble.

• Saving Presets (02:17) - Learn how to use the Kontakt snapshot system to save your customized Session Percussionist ensembles.

• Pattern Editor Overview (05:06) - Get a brief tour of this window and the various ways of customizing the notes, velocities, articulations, flams, and more for each pattern.

• Mapping Patterns to Keys (05:14) - See various strategies for assigning patterns to keys, creating variations, and creatively using the pattern browser?s similarity sorting function.

• Creative Looping (04:40) - Explore really interesting rhythmic variations, offsets, and permutations easily achieved by editing the loop range of one or more of the patterns being triggered.

• Recording Guide Rhythms (04:16) - Watch how to use your own rhythmic input as search criteria in the pattern browser.

• Step Strip & Selection Strip (05:32) - Discover powerful editing workflow possibilities when combining the step and selection strips.

• Altering the Edit Grid (04:58) - Learn how to change the timing of the subdivisions of either individual or all beats in a pattern.

• Articulation Panel (03:39) - See how to use this area of Session Percussionist to customize your patterns.

• Velocity Panel (04:39) - Explore the various velocity tools available in Session Percussionist to shift, offset, scale, compress, expand, tilt, randomize, and limit the velocity levels of the notes within each pattern.

• Timing Panel (05:15) - Discover the nuanced tools and functions used to shift, loosen, tighten, randomize, limit, and scale the timing of either individual or selected notes within a pattern.

• Flams Panel (04:11) - Hear how either single or double grace notes are added to individual or selected steps in the Flams panel.

• Mixer (07:38) - Learn about processing the sound of the individual players in the ensemble, adjusting their positions in the virtual recording room, and more.

• Programming Your own Parts (11:31) - Follow along as an arrangement is put together combining Session Percussionist patterns with parts recorded into a DAW using the Session Percussionist multi sample and roll articulations.