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Archibald is a complete and powerful tool for creating grooves. Thanks to its flexible step-sequencer, you may edit drum parts of virtually any level of complexity.
Archibald is then able to add its own realistic interpretations of your patterns, putting a "human" touch to note, velocity, and attack information, according to your own taste. Archibald comes with its 260 mo sounds' bank, and may be extended with any third party sound.
Also includes a 'pattern creator' and a 'Live' module, to drive Archibald on the stage... It is an ideal companion for the musician and an
Archibald is then able to add its own realistic interpretations of your patterns, putting a "human" touch to note, velocity, and attack information, according to your own taste. Archibald comes with its 260 mo sounds' bank, and may be extended with any third party sound.
Also includes a 'pattern creator' and a 'Live' module, to drive Archibald on the stage... It is an ideal companion for the musician and an
What's New
Version 3.6.1:
- ReWire: now able to be synchronized or not synchronized to the host.
- incorporates a 'Jamming' window that allows to modulate Archibald's interpretation via audio input's analysis.
- corrects many bugs relative to multiple screen usage.
- now remembers MIDI input settings by name.
- new big window dispays transport's information
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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| Downloads:15,899 |
| Version Downloads:1,164 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : Audio |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:30 Nov 2008 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $48.00 |
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Archibald is a complete and powerful tool for creating grooves. Thanks to its flexible step-sequencer, you may edit drum parts of virtually any level of complexity.
Archibald is then able to add its own realistic interpretations of your patterns, putting a "human" touch to note, velocity, and attack information, according to your own taste. Archibald comes with its 260 mo sounds' bank, and may be extended with any third party sound.
Also includes a 'pattern creator' and a 'Live' module, to drive Archibald on the stage... It is an ideal companion for the musician and an indispensable tool for the composer.
Archibald is then able to add its own realistic interpretations of your patterns, putting a "human" touch to note, velocity, and attack information, according to your own taste. Archibald comes with its 260 mo sounds' bank, and may be extended with any third party sound.
Also includes a 'pattern creator' and a 'Live' module, to drive Archibald on the stage... It is an ideal companion for the musician and an indispensable tool for the composer.
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Is there a software that creates multiple velocity/attack files?
I purchased NDK, how do I set these up for the bank builder?
Thank you!
and many thanks for your comment!
I don't know about any soft that creates multiple velocity/attack files... except Archibald itself, thanks to its 'SYNTH' function.
I you own some samples' banks, you can emulate the 'attack parameter' by applying filters or compression on the files.
(i.e.: a snare is more brilliant when hit in its middle)
Some high quality sounds banks offer multiple attacks (that is different from multiple velocities). NDK is probably the best choice for this.
To set up NDK for Archibald, main thing to do is:
select the samples you want to use and place them in a specific order into a folder. Name the folder, place it into 'PolySoundBank', then use 'BankBuilder to create the correct file for Archibald.
Archibald is limited to 100 samples per ordinary instrument, 300 samples for Hihat and Snare.
All this is detailed in the manual, chapter 'Bank Builder'.
I personnaly use NDK with Archibald, and it sounds great. Thanks to them you can get a top-level drum soft for less than $150...
Cheers,
jlennon314 reviewed on 15 Apr 2006
Just...wow...that is all that I can say. This is possibly the best "drum machine" that I have ever used.
I am into this and Doggiebox. Now, Doggiebox I use because it is simple. I mean, totally simple. Start it up and go. Archibald is NOT simple. At least, not at first. It gets easier quickly, but you kinda have to relearn how to do things for the first few times. But once you've gotten everything down in your head, it's powerful.
The reason that it can be confusing and intimidating at first - it has 3 different properties with value ranges from 0% to 100% (2 for the bass drum). There is just so much variability and yet you have control over the chance occurances.
Your Controls are over - Probability of striking, Velocity range for the strike, and attack range for where the strike hits.
Kick drum - just the one
Hi-hat - Foot pedal, Open, and Closed
Snare - Snare hit, Rim shot
Cymbals - Ride, crash
Toms - Hi, low
Play one bar (the one you're working on) or play the entire set. You can loop or not loop up to 64 bars. You can also easily change the amount of beats per bar.
It works with ReWire, so if you have a ReWire compatible program, it works. However, it doesn't seem to work with Garageband's ReWire support (yes, Garageband does have ReWire support. Yayness!). Hopefully, that will be fixed sometime in the near future. Also, hopefully this will be made into a UBin.
I would have GLADLY paid the 36 USD that it was worth before had I known about it. This is just a brilliant piece of programming, and I highly recommend it to anyone.
Everytime I try to setup samples in a folder, archibald does not recognize them. Is there a special way to do this? The user documentations is also pretty difficult to read
Anonymous reviewed on 24 Oct 2005
Anonymous reviewed on 29 May 2005
I particularly enjoy the delay feature a lot. It makes the program that much more interesting to play to with guitar/bass.
Ryan
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Anonymous reviewed on 19 May 2005
Perhaps you should have contact me to get help...
Perhaps you simply forgot to turn audio on...
Perhaps if I asked for a simple mail with comments I would have received nothing, except few insults and news from some uselesses (roughly what happened with version 1.0). Archibald has actually 70 "registered" users, with a large majority of satisfaction. Their comments help me to perfect the software.
Be sure I'm really sorry for english is not my natural language...
So, see you later, and thank you for your bravoure, Anonymous.
Eric L.
Anonymous reviewed on 05 May 2005
I do not know what this was supposed to do but it did nothing once it opened. I should have emptied it into the trash sooner than I did once I saw the Demo only runs for a certain time unless you send the Dev your USER ID. What the F@#$ is that all about?
You might as well make it Beerware and require people to send you Beer for the use of it.
Perhaps you should have contact me to get help...
Perhaps you simply forgot to turn audio on...
Perhaps if I asked for a simple mail with comments I would have received nothing, except few insults and news from some uselesses (roughly what happened with version 1.0). Archibald has actually 70 "registered" users, with a large majority of satisfaction. Their comments help me to perfect the software.
Be sure I'm really sorry for english is not my natural language...
So, see you later, and thank you for your bravoure, Anonymous.
Eric L.
Anonymous reviewed on 04 Apr 2005
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/un-art/Archibald_1.0_OSX.dmg
The other is too busy since this morning.
Anonymous reviewed on 03 Apr 2005
Then turn Audio On.