Boom and Vacuum Plug-ins

 Boom
-comes with 10 drum kits, each individual sound has pan, volume, pitch, decay and manipulate, audimate, mute, solo, and change drum kit (under DRUM KIT) options
-the Matrix Display provides a visual representation of what is going on per instrument, per beat and shows which pattern is being used
-Each groove has 16 different patterns
-By clicking on the red dots inside the Matrix Display, you can change the velocity and deselect dots to add/subtract instruments
-the horizontal rows of Boom correspond to the instrument channel (where the red dots are)
-the vertical columns represent 1 of 16 steps that make up a pattern
-"copy" copies the red dots to the individual channels
-"pattern" under the B in Boom shows which preset is being used in the channel
-command, click BOOM gives you more options to work with
To clear a pattern:
-set the Edit Mode to Pattern Select mode
-Click the chosen Event to clear
-Click the clear button found above the Matrix display
In Pattern Select mode:
-you can select where to place the beat of the selected channel, for example, if you found an awesome snare sound from one kit but a cooler bass drum in another kit, you can apply each to a channel without having to stick to only one drum kit


Vacuum
-it is a mono synth, meaning you cannot play more than one key at a time (monophonic)
-VTO 1 and VTO 2 are oscillator controls (found in upper left corner), the sound of plug-in originates here
       -Range setting = sets octave at what the VTO plays, each range has a special setting from wide to
       low range. (Wide meaning HUGE range around 5 octaves)
       -Fine setting in regular mode = up/down 7 semitones
       -Shape setting = wave shapes, including: tri = triangle wave, noise = random white noise, saw =
       saw tooth wave, PW = pulse wave
       -Env 1 (and 2) moving it to the right = more modulation, to the left = inverted modulation
-The Mixer contains the signal from the two oscillators together (both VTOs)
       -Drive- distortion
       -Ring modulator- adds a variable amount of the 1st and 2nd multiplied together
-HPF + LPF- high pass filter and low pass filter's are volume sensitive, if you put more volume through them it adds character to sound
       -Cutoff- sets frequency at which the filter cuts off or attenuates sound
       -Reso- affects the filters resonance, amount of signal fed back into the filter circuit around the
       chosen frequency at higher values, a peak is created
       -Slope
       -Env1- controls the amount that the filter cut off frequency is modulated by.
       Its envelope at center = no modulation, at the right = more modulation, at the left = modulation
       is negative
       -Key track- function of pitches the midi keyboard is playing, affects the filters cut off frequency
       -Sat- adds saturation to the resonate feedback loop (distortion)