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Example of Breakout Heavyocity GravityвЂ™s Main Interface Punish GravityвЂ™s Main InterfaceThe Main tab is where you do the high level tweaking. And F6 turns on distortion, letting go turns it off. You can turn on effects with keys, for example holding A6 for a measure causes the panning effect in this clip. Designers feature offers deep customization As film, television, and video game composers, Heavyocity laments the dearth of great-sounding hits and hybrid risers in the VI marketplace.Breakouts are like menus, but also have вЂњselector keysвЂќ that let you layer elements to create new sounds. GravityвЂ™s Complex Pad 3 Channel GUI Example of a Complex PadHeavyocity Gravity gives you a world of unlimited possibilities.

Twist GravityвЂ™s TwistBy selecting the Twist button, the circle now changes the effect. You can click the red button (circle) below it to turn the effect off. Punish adds Saturation and Compression. With the Punish button/tab selected, you can click the circle and drag up or down to raise or lower the effect.

There are also two modifer knobs, Tone selects the frequency that the effect is centered around, and Rate controls the rate of the animation. The circle button below it turns the effect on or off. Like Punish, click the circle and drag up or down to change the amount of the effect.

The Tune knob letвЂ™s you tune up/down in semitones so that it can be in the correct key. Additionally, breakouts will have one sample on a key, so youвЂ™d ordinarily be stuck with whatever note/tone that sample is set to. ItвЂ™s actually fairly handy when layering, making it easy to pan various elements, and adjust the volume level of each element. This allows you to do some high level tuning of the sample.

So while the GUI will only show one ADSR Envelope, if you tweak it, and then hit a different key, youвЂ™ll notice that it changes to whatever that keyвЂ™s ADSR is set to. To make things a bit more perplexing, if you load a Menu or Hits Breakout, then the ADSR is tied to each key. One thing that isnвЂ™t obvious on first glance is that the ADSR Envelope will have 3 tabs if you load a Complex Pad or Rise Breakout, otherwise itвЂ™s just one. This has your typically Attack Decay Sustain Release settings.

It comes with about two dozen presets, like вЂњCathederalвЂќ, вЂњSmall HallвЂќ, вЂњL PlateвЂќ and so on.Also included are Chorus, Delay and Distortion. A Convolution Reverb allows you to select the Pre-Delay, Room Size and Dry/Wet Mix. Master EffectsThe Master Effects section on the left comes with four built in вЂњrackвЂќ effects. This section is especially useful when the вЂњhitвЂќ is just a bit too much, or not enough, and to make the tail last a bit longer.

This will be familiar to you if you play older analog synths. Unison creates a thickening sound by using mulitple samples detuned from the original. Velocity will make the MIDI notes softer by rotating left and harder by rotating right. Performance ControlsThere are also performance Controls in the lower right, under the ADSR.

The knob under each slider is used to select the frequency for that band, with the two outermost selecting for the low and high shelf starting point. It has 4 bands, and each band can be boosted or cut using the 4 sliders. To turn each section on, click the box next to each name.The Master EQ section is the same for all instruments, and affects the entire preset on a global scale. Similar to analog synths, this controls the pitch timing when transitioning between notes.Gravity Filter and EQ Gravity EQ and FilterThis screen is slightly different depending on what you have loaded.

You also get standard ADSR controls. The LFO lets you adjust the amount of modulation applied to the filter cutoff. You also have Envelope, LFO, Key and Velocity controls. You can select the cutoff and resonance of each. ItвЂ™s nice that itвЂ™s included, buy you may want to leave this disabled, and adjust with your favorite EQ plugin or outboard gear.The filter section allows you to select Lowpass, Highpass, Bandpass, Formant and Vowel.

You enable each one by selecting the red circular button. There are 5 effects, Distortion, LoFi, Filter, Panner, and Delay. ItвЂ™s a 3 channel EQ, with the sliders controlling the boost/cut, and the knobs selecting the center frequency and Q.GravityвЂ™s Trigger FX Heavyocity Gravity Trigger FXThis is one of the cooler features of Heavyocity Gravity. And then adjust the LFO with the Rate and Sync knobs.The Equalizer on the right is for the entire instrument if itвЂ™s an Element, but per key if itвЂ™s a Menu, and per Channel if itвЂ™s Complex.

YouвЂ™ll notice that the two buttons on the left are the same buttons for that effect on the prior screen, and still offer the same control options. For example, Delay allows you to tune the Feedback and Width. Each one has a slightly different set of parameters to control. Advanced Screen for Trigger FXIf you click Advanced for one of the FX, then the advanced settings screen opens for that effect. Sample with Motion FX applied. Disabled, itвЂ™s just a static effect.

The Rate knob controls both sequences and is tied to the beat (1/2, 1/4, 1/16, etc.) You can select the number of steps by choosing 16 or 32 to the right of each grid. There is a copy and paste button so you can apply the pattern elsewhere, and a RAND button to randomize the pattern.ThereвЂ™s a two setting envelope, using the Attack and Decay knobs, to set the fade in/out times. Each of the shape pattern buttons will offer x1,x2,x3,x4 which means divide the grid into that amount so the shape pattern can be repeated that number of times. You can draw in a pattern, or use the shape tool options below to alter it.

Motion offers a вЂњglobalвЂќ Volume/Pan/Pitch sequence. All the way to the right, you wonвЂ™t hear any stepping.) Motion Gravity Motion MenuHint: The above grid will have 3 rows if you choose a Complex Pad or Riser Breakout, as there will be 3 channels.This is the other magical part of HeavyocityвЂ™s Gravity. The Smooth knob sets how smooth the steps are (ie.

The Pattern ChainYou can create 8 Motion patterns and chain them together. Clicking that play button will also enable/disable the Motion effect. YouвЂ™ll also notice on the bottom right of every page is a play button with the numbers 1 through 8. You can also hit the play button to the left of the grid.

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However, by enabling the Follow button, you will allow the grid to update as the pattern is playing. The grid will update to whatever pattern you are editing. Scrolling up/down will allow you to select one of the 8 patterns for editing.

GravityвЂ™s Motion on a Pad EDM and Hip Hop uses of Heavyocity GravityWhile Film Scoring is probably most associated with Heavyocity products, Gravity lends itself rather nicely to other genres as well. The really creative part is that you can first set the pattern for the volume, offering stuttering or gate type effects, but then take it to the next level with panning and pitch. YouвЂ™ll notice as you do this, it updates the global pattern control graphic (the one thatвЂ™s on the bottom right of every page.)ThereвЂ™s also a master envelope for the chain that offers Attack and Decay, as well as the number of Steps in the pattern and the Rate, which is tied to the beat. You can also click inside each of those numeric boxes, and drag up/down to change which pattern is used in that position of the chain. Slide the mini down arrow thatвЂ™s over box 1, to the right to select the chain pattern length.

HereвЂ™s an EDM example where I use Gravity for the Riser, and another where I use it as a Downshifter.