M-Audio Wizoo Darbuka [10/30] Complexity

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Muting Track Types

The Tracks activation section is a handy time saving feature and useful in many

situations. All Tracks have been grouped together by type, the Bass, Mid and High

buttons allow you to quickly activate or deactivate families of Tracks. This can be

useful when previewing Styles or Patterns, when mixing, or maybe you only want to

use particular percussion instruments in your composition.

Using the Tracks activation section will deﬁnitely save you time.

Group Tracks Assigned

High Riqq, Sagat, Tura, Shaker, Claps

Mid Darbuka, Bendir, Bongos

Bass Douhola, Reverse

Complexity

Despite it’s name, Complexity is easy to use and might even be called “simplicity”. What it does is remove the

least important percussion hits played by each Track in the Style. A setting of Mid removes some hits and the

Low setting removes all but the most essential hits in the groove.

Master Ambience

Ambience is a very high quality surround compatible reverb. Each percussion Track in a Style has it’s own

Ambience send amount, set in the Track Mix on the Mix Page (See the Track Mix section of this manual).

All Styles have a light natural Ambience setting already.

< Ambience In Stereo

When Darbuka is used in Stereo mode (set in the Main Outputs section of the

Setup Page) the dry percussion mix is sent to stereo output 1 and the Ambience

signal is sent to stereo output 2 in your host application so you can easily mix .

Support for additional outputs in AudioUnit and RTAS hosts currently depends on

the version of the host application being used. To ensure maximum compatibility,

the initial version of Darbuka only provides a stereo output in AudioUnit or RTAS

hosts, and as a result the Front/Rear and Output controls on the Mix page will

not function. As soon as AudioUnit and RTAS host updates are available, this

functionality will be implemented in Darbuka and an update will be released on

the Wizoo website.

< Ambience In Surround

In Surround mode (Main Outputs section of the Setup Page) the dry percussion

mix and Ambience outputs are combined. Front left and right (wet and dry) go

to the ﬁrst stereo output, and rear left and right (wet and dry) go to the second

stereo output.

Because the Master Ambience is a true surround reverb you will notice that when you move Tracks within the

surround panorama, the sound character of the Ambience will change just like in a natural room. For example,

if you pan a Track to the left rear corner, the Ambience level and early reﬂections of the Ambience will be more

pronounced for that Track in the left rear corner.