INTRO

Hydrogen can now have multiple banks per instruments.

Let's imagine samples for a drumkit that were recorded with mics directly close to the instruments and samples that were recorded above the drumkit.

For example:
kick_close_01.wav
kick_close_02.wav
kick_overhead_01.wav
kick_overhead_02.wav
snare_close_01.wav
snare_close_02.wav
snare_overhead_01.wav
snare_overhead_02.wav

By creating multiple banks, you can:

• control for each instruments the gain of each bank
• change in the mixer the volumes of a whole bank at once

This enables to change very quickly the tonality of a drumkit.

CREATE AND MANAGE INSTRUMENT BANKS

Bank can be created and managed by clicking the down arrow in the layer tab (c.f. screenshot 1).
Through this menu, you can as well select the current bank in order to:

• add layers to it
• change the gain of that selected bank for that selected instrument

MIXER

In the mixer, after the list of instruments knobs is the list of banks knobs (c.f. screenshot 2).
These knobs will change the volume of that bank for all the instruments using it.

OUTPUTS

For audio systems that supports "create per-instrument outputs", outputs will be created for each instrument's banks (c.f. screenshot 3).

from documentation.

Hi Blablack,
i just tried playing with this and i now understand what it really is ;-)

some findings/questions :

1. is it possible to move the sample that is currently on the 'main' bank to the 'overhead' bank ?
2. can i drag a sample from a different drumkit directly to the 'overhead' bank of an existing instrument ?

I was under the impression that it would be possible to create your own balance between the 'close' and 'overhead' mic for each instrument separately
It seems that this is not possible (unless of course you make different banks for the 'close' and 'overhead' sample of each instruments, but this would make the mixer very crowded)
Maybe this is not really necessary (i dont have a multibank drumkit so i cant try)

grtz
Thijs

from documentation.

Hi,

To answer your questions

1. is it possible to move the sample that is currently on the 'main' bank to the 'overhead' bank ?
   Nope :(

2. can i drag a sample from a different drumkit directly to the 'overhead' bank of an existing instrument ?
   No. Can you actually drag sample from a different drumkit? I knew you could drag/drop instruments, but not samples :)
   If you drag an instrument, hydrogen will try and match the banks. If you drag an instrument with "overhead" into a drumkit that already has "overhead", hydrogen will reuse the existing banks.

3. I was under the impression that it would be possible to create your own balance between the 'close' and 'overhead' mic for each instrument separately
   You can - when you are in the Layers tab - B. Volume knob represents the volume of the bank for that specific instrument.

Hope that answers all your questions :)

from documentation.