M-Audio Wizoo Darbuka [14/30] Ambience

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< Punch

Punch is a very powerful and creative control, allowing you to change the shape of an instrument’s attack

and body. Darbuka This could be used for example to subtly emphasize the attack of a Douhola, to make the

dynamic range of a Sagat less extreme or to make a Bendir sound more processed and electronic.

Punch has four modes, each with a distinctive character and sound shaping quality. To emphasize the effect

of the Punch feature just turn the knob clockwise, gain reduction is displayed by the meter surrounding the

Punch knob.

• Power: As it’s name suggests Power will make a Track sound more powerful by

controlling the volume of the attack portion of the instruments in a Track and raising the

level of the body of the instruments.

• Snap: Snap is useful to accentuate the attack of instruments, to make them poke out

of the mix.

• Hard: Hard mode is a very strong compression setting that really forces the quieter

aspects of each percussion hit to become very loud.

• Soft: or a gentle amount of Punch control over a Track use the Soft mode, this affects

the attack and the body in equal amounts but doesn’t have the force of the other Punch

modes.

Using extreme amounts of Punch can lead to some surprising and interesting results.

< Level

The Level control in the Track Mixer allows you to set the general volume of each Track in the Style. This control

(as with all others in the Track Mixer) affects the whole Track for all Patterns used in a Style.

To change the volume of a Track for a particular Pattern, take a look at the Part Parameters section of this

manual.

< Pan

Places a Track within the stereo image and controls the left/right position when working in surround mode.

Graphical stereo panning and surround position placement is possible using the Darbuka Stage.

< Ambience

To set the send amount for any Track to the Master Ambience, use the Ambience Send feature in the Track

Mixer.

The controls for the Master Ambience are found on the Play Page.

< Assigning Tracks To Outputs

If you would like to send Tracks to individual outputs for a special EQ, effect or to simply have them on their own

channels in your host application or mixer, no problem, there are up to fourteen extra outputs available.

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.

To assign a Track to an individual output simply select it’s Track Tab and choose an

output from the Indiv. Output drop down menu.