These videos are spectacular - I've wanted something like this since Shreddage 1 :) It's fantastic to have the MIDIs downloadable and to be able to experiment with all this functionality that I hadn't yet delved into.
I get so much from these videos. Thank you! I would like to see a video on using different techniques on how to play a decent funk guitar with a DAW. This would be awesome to see in a video. Thank you.
Thank you very much!!!! Thanks to you, I finally managed to be able to change articulations on my midi tracks, which is something I spent a lot of time trying to understand. You got one subscriber more :)
Do you think you could add an option to map vibrato amount to Host Automation instead of only the mod wheel or aftertouch? I use Shreddage 3 Hydra with Kontakt in LMMS, and that doesn't let me use the mod wheel.
Thank you so much - Time to count my pennies! Huge question. How did you automate the Pitchbend wheel in Kontakt? I can't find any info on that and I see you were able to do that. I found the Mod Wheel in "Browse parameters", but I can't right click or find the pitch wheel anywhere to automate.
"browse parameters" is a button in FLStudio. If you're using FL, then you can automate pitch within a pattern. Where the velocity for each note is typically displayed below the piano roll, click the "control" button on the left and select "channel pitch" from the channel controls header. You can draw a pitch bend bar graph. Turn your "snap to grid" option to a short note (1/4 or no snap) for more sensitivity with this control (thinner bars). Make sure that at the end of the graph you draw at least one bar at exactly zero (the number you're on is displayed in the top left corner of FLStudio under the file name while you're dragging the graph bars) or the rest of your track will sound pitch bent, and when playing back, play till the end of the pattern or the channel pitch will remain bent until an automation tells it to go back to zero. Every sound from that channel will sound starkly out of tune if this happens. There's no mistaking it. One more thing: while drawing the bar graph, if you hold left click, hold control, and drag left to right, this will flatten a range of the graph. This is really important if you need to reset an area to zero. Just find zero, hold control, and strafe the whole area. I don't know for sure if there's a difference between doing this and using Kontakt's pitch wheel. I think they call the same algorithm though. If so, the sound will be exactly the same.
@@vikashdenzil I've thought about it. I've become much more versed in FLStudio and mixing over the last couple of years. I'm definitely too busy right now, but maybe in a few months I could. In the meantime, there are numerous FLStudio and mixing tutorials out there. Some of them are very good. The channel In The Mix comes to mind, and SpectreSoundStudios for mixing, but not FL specifically.
The very first shreddage 2 didn't sound as great as this but everything was so easier. Maybe I'm just dumb but getting all these keyswitches to work like I wanted it to has been a headache lol, I liked it better when lowering the velocity changed to chugs. It's easier playing my real guitar.
How do I go about removing the guitar noise? When I write breakdowns, In between the chug patterns has lots of unwanted guitar noise. I guess that would be like the "realism" added in. Is there a way to turn that down or remove it? Thank you
Heya, for some reason the AfterTouch Vibrato switch doesn't which. I put it on AfterTouch and I went to it in FL but it didn't work. Am I missing something. Please reply. ;-;
@@ImpactSoundworksLLC Shreddage 3 Serpent... I gave up and just put two separate slides together and blended them in Adobe Soundbooth, so it's no longer an issue.
@Nabeel Ansari I never use the LITE.nki file. The slide articulations are set to the longest possible slides, and the TACT transition length did help extend the slides, but not by much.
@Nabeel Ansari Well the speed of the slide should be relative to the tempo, but Shreddege doesn't seem to connected to the tempo of the DAW, so the only way I can describe the speed of the slide I'm looking for is half of a 4/4 measure.
Just throwing this out here to see if anyone has figured this out... But for programming dissonant leads where the guitar is playing for example alternating quarter notes like C3 on the B string and C#3 on the E string, how do you make the notes sustain? I have the sustain keyswitch set, of course. But I think what is happening is that Hydra thinks that I want to play the C3 and C#3 on the same string. So it's cutting off the C3 as soon as I move to the C#3. I'd love to be able to get that dissonant, sustained sound but idk if there is a way to do that. If you stack the two notes, it'll play them as a chord, but as soon as they are moved over, it starts cutting them off. If anybody has any ideas, I'd appreciate it!
We are producing these one by one - each requires new MIDIs, mockups, renders, VO, and video. However, we're looking to move it faster. Part 2 will come next week.
Impact Soundworks LLC I’m having problems with two notes playing on separate strings at the same time (other than power chords), it only triggers one of the notes.
@@Az_Eaz Maybe you're triggering hammer-ons when you don't intend to? Check the velocity range / mapping for hammers. For example you could set this to a keyswtich, or a narrower velocity range, so that you don't get legato unless you play in that specific range.
@@ImpactSoundworksLLC Velocity is 122 for both notes. There is a slight delay between the two notes and they are overlapped, however, when the notes are quantised (not overlapped) the chord plays correctly. Oddly, the same two note chord works fine on lower pitches, but when the first note is A#2 it starts playing only one note. (don't know if you can understand that, it's hard to explain)
my down slides do NOT trigger. it just plays the note really fast within the sustained note im trying to slide from. also, only the "slide note" key switch triggers my up slides. the "slide" key switch does nothing. ever. im very confused and need help.
It's actually an option in Kontakt, not specific to your DAW. Press F3 to toggle it on/off, or go to the top to the window tab which has options for Browser, Master, Info, Outputs, Keyboard, and Quickload views. Toggle the Keyboard one.
@@zirconst Enabling it using F3 did not worked on MacOs/Logic Pro (or maybe I did something wrong) but I found the little window icon/tab on the Kontakt interface that you suggested, and was able to enable the keyboard from it. Thank you very much!
In FL you can automate the pitch bend.first write your riff in patterns and then in song mode paint it in with brush. Hit the gear thingy on the guitar wrapper to open it, move the pitch range wheel, hit tools directory on the top left, go to last tweaked, create an automation clip. go from pattern to song mode and paint in your auto clip. Bend your heart out.
DI sound look as its processed in some what. Sound great as DI .. but with amps they are too noisy.. Tried many vst.. ample sound (same issuess as previous), OTS, and many others. I buyed shreddage hydra and legacy. And i got good sound, but I got freaking awesome sound with musiclab reallpc (they are dman very dry sound. Its a DI of DI, but this way supposed to be so you can get from very clean to very noisey aound with amps. )
the problem lies when you apply this instument to music that was written with shreddage 2 x. it simply shits the bed and nothing works. you either have to rewrite everything (not gonna happen) or go in and program all of the articualtions the same as on shreddage 2. thats some bullshit right there. way too much work.
Please check out the latest v1.313 update available today via Pulse. We completely revamped the default patch settings to include mute/sustain/rake/pinch harmonic switching by velocity (which you can of course change). Other articulations are available via keyswitch as before. The settings VERY closely match what we had in S2. Everything should feel way more playable out of the box.
You can easily do this in TACT. Just enable Portamento and put it on the same keyswitch as Sustains. However you'll need to give it a different velocity range than hammer/pull. The script needs a way to know whether it should hammer or slide to a note.
it's not that hard. first, you need to know how to read. second, you need a bit of patience, as by default on the latest version of jupiter, slides are off by default in TACT. enable them, and sliding works as expected. also ensure your velocity is at the right level to trigger a sustained note.
it's a shame this software is so complex. I could master an actual guitar faster than I'm getting even basic stuff out of this VST. With no useful documentation or web tutorials from start to finish, a user is pretty much on their own
I mean that's just music production. Learning this is absolutely going to be faster than spending years learning how to play the guitar though. And cheaper as well.
1/10. I havent seen any programme that was as buggy as SHREDDAGE. DO NOT BUY FOLKS. DO NOT BUY. The Keyswitch Engine is a joke and incredibly buggy. . I am shocked how bad this is. I spent like 20 hours trying to fix this thing but no use. Like I said, DO NOT BUY.
Have you contacted our support? We've never received any bug reports of issues with keyswitches; it's the same engine used in over 10 instruments with no problems. We always help people out and make sure you're happy with your purchase.
Impact Soundworks LLC no i havent..the first thing i checked was the refund policy...after i saw that it was not possible, i tried to fix this thing(thinking it was me who was incompetent or doing mistakes)-i spent many hours, watched videos& read all forums about it, re-installed couple times-yet still couldnt fix how many bugs i encounter-for example: no matter what i do, slide function doesnt work etc,.i ll contact impact soundworks but before that i gotta inform others before they waste hours on it as well
@@ImpactSoundworksLLC Thanks! Never heard of Get Good Drums before. My guess is that you used the GGD 'Invasion' pack? And of course I'll be sure to check out Shreddage Drums too! ;)
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Slides were always beyond me, and this helps put them into perspective. Good job.
These videos are spectacular - I've wanted something like this since Shreddage 1 :) It's fantastic to have the MIDIs downloadable and to be able to experiment with all this functionality that I hadn't yet delved into.
if youre used to an old version of shreddage this will infuriate you.
I get so much from these videos. Thank you! I would like to see a video on using different techniques on how to play a decent funk guitar with a DAW. This would be awesome to see in a video. Thank you.
Wow that sounded great! Thank you so much. These videos are incredibly helpful!!
Thank you very much!!!! Thanks to you, I finally managed to be able to change articulations on my midi tracks, which is something I spent a lot of time trying to understand. You got one subscriber more :)
8:25 That's so dope. Couldn't make a difference between this and a real Lead Guitar, awesome!
Aint touched a fret
Really great stuff! Can't wait for Part 2
wow it sounds amazing..but is there a way to reduce the mod wheel speed?that vibrato sounds unnatural...😳
I don't have a TACT tab
ty for your lessons
This was very helpful. The MIDI file doesn't work with the default TACT settings though so I had to copy them from 0:19.
Do you think you could add an option to map vibrato amount to Host Automation instead of only the mod wheel or aftertouch? I use Shreddage 3 Hydra with Kontakt in LMMS, and that doesn't let me use the mod wheel.
Thank you so much - Time to count my pennies! Huge question. How did you automate the Pitchbend wheel in Kontakt? I can't find any info on that and I see you were able to do that. I found the Mod Wheel in "Browse parameters", but I can't right click or find the pitch wheel anywhere to automate.
This is done at a DAW level, since the pitch wheel is not a regular MIDI CC. What DAW are you using?
"browse parameters" is a button in FLStudio. If you're using FL, then you can automate pitch within a pattern. Where the velocity for each note is typically displayed below the piano roll, click the "control" button on the left and select "channel pitch" from the channel controls header. You can draw a pitch bend bar graph. Turn your "snap to grid" option to a short note (1/4 or no snap) for more sensitivity with this control (thinner bars). Make sure that at the end of the graph you draw at least one bar at exactly zero (the number you're on is displayed in the top left corner of FLStudio under the file name while you're dragging the graph bars) or the rest of your track will sound pitch bent, and when playing back, play till the end of the pattern or the channel pitch will remain bent until an automation tells it to go back to zero. Every sound from that channel will sound starkly out of tune if this happens. There's no mistaking it. One more thing: while drawing the bar graph, if you hold left click, hold control, and drag left to right, this will flatten a range of the graph. This is really important if you need to reset an area to zero. Just find zero, hold control, and strafe the whole area.
I don't know for sure if there's a difference between doing this and using Kontakt's pitch wheel. I think they call the same algorithm though. If so, the sound will be exactly the same.
@@Snarkbutt you should make a video man, it'll help a lot of them out since you know what you're talking about
@@vikashdenzil I've thought about it. I've become much more versed in FLStudio and mixing over the last couple of years. I'm definitely too busy right now, but maybe in a few months I could. In the meantime, there are numerous FLStudio and mixing tutorials out there. Some of them are very good. The channel In The Mix comes to mind, and SpectreSoundStudios for mixing, but not FL specifically.
The very first shreddage 2 didn't sound as great as this but everything was so easier. Maybe I'm just dumb but getting all these keyswitches to work like I wanted it to has been a headache lol, I liked it better when lowering the velocity changed to chugs. It's easier playing my real guitar.
Thanks! These are very helpful. 😀
How do I go about removing the guitar noise? When I write breakdowns, In between the chug patterns has lots of unwanted guitar noise. I guess that would be like the "realism" added in. Is there a way to turn that down or remove it? Thank you
Is the lead patch in the very beginning available in stratus?It's from a stratus demo called "third destiny"
Heya, for some reason the AfterTouch Vibrato switch doesn't which. I put it on AfterTouch and I went to it in FL but it didn't work. Am I missing something. Please reply. ;-;
can you explain how to perform power chord strum (green day style) ?
lil question what daw name (on the puicture with midi files) ??
Looks like Logic Pro X.
i haven't rules tables switch button, using kontakt 6, how i can solve this?
How can you achieve unison bend?
I can't get the slide slow enough, I have the transition speed set up to be a slow as possible but it's still about twice as fast as I need it to be.
Which instrument are you using?
@@ImpactSoundworksLLC Shreddage 3 Serpent... I gave up and just put two separate slides together and blended them in Adobe Soundbooth, so it's no longer an issue.
@@ScorpionXII Got it, we are working on an update that will increase max slide length.
@Nabeel Ansari I never use the LITE.nki file. The slide articulations are set to the longest possible slides, and the TACT transition length did help extend the slides, but not by much.
@Nabeel Ansari Well the speed of the slide should be relative to the tempo, but Shreddege doesn't seem to connected to the tempo of the DAW, so the only way I can describe the speed of the slide I'm looking for is half of a 4/4 measure.
Just throwing this out here to see if anyone has figured this out... But for programming dissonant leads where the guitar is playing for example alternating quarter notes like C3 on the B string and C#3 on the E string, how do you make the notes sustain? I have the sustain keyswitch set, of course. But I think what is happening is that Hydra thinks that I want to play the C3 and C#3 on the same string. So it's cutting off the C3 as soon as I move to the C#3. I'd love to be able to get that dissonant, sustained sound but idk if there is a way to do that. If you stack the two notes, it'll play them as a chord, but as soon as they are moved over, it starts cutting them off. If anybody has any ideas, I'd appreciate it!
Why aren't these Masterclasses uploaded earlier? 3 weeks since the last one!
We are producing these one by one - each requires new MIDIs, mockups, renders, VO, and video. However, we're looking to move it faster. Part 2 will come next week.
Impact Soundworks LLC I’m having problems with two notes playing on separate strings at the same time (other than power chords), it only triggers one of the notes.
@@Az_Eaz Maybe you're triggering hammer-ons when you don't intend to? Check the velocity range / mapping for hammers. For example you could set this to a keyswtich, or a narrower velocity range, so that you don't get legato unless you play in that specific range.
@@ImpactSoundworksLLC Velocity is 122 for both notes. There is a slight delay between the two notes and they are overlapped, however, when the notes are quantised (not overlapped) the chord plays correctly. Oddly, the same two note chord works fine on lower pitches, but when the first note is A#2 it starts playing only one note. (don't know if you can understand that, it's hard to explain)
All good things come to those that wait :-) Great series ... looking forward to the rest :-)
my down slides do NOT trigger. it just plays the note really fast within the sustained note im trying to slide from. also, only the "slide note" key switch triggers my up slides. the "slide" key switch does nothing. ever. im very confused and need help.
mine is the same as well! so annoying
The slides don't do anything for me even if I'm holding it down
How to automation Vibrato amount.?
Simply automate CC1 (modwheel) by default!
Are you going to do a episode on rhythm guitar / chords?
Yes, this is coming!
I cant get keyboard to come up on my shreddage 3 even when its turned on it doesent show up
Guitar sound gets muffled a bit for me after a while of using. Help!
What would be the easiest way to achieve tapping effect?
Some ISW guitars have tapping as an articulation which you can map to any keyswitch, velocity, or CC you want!
@@zirconst, do you know if Rogue has this option?
I use FL Studio with Shreddage and I do not see the piano tiles at the bottom nor the mod wheel etc. There's simply empty space
Go to the settings icon at the top of the Kontakt UI (looks like a window with some small square boxes), and click "Keyboard"
How do I make this color marked keyboard appear bellow my Shreddage 3 Hydra on Logic Pro X?
It's actually an option in Kontakt, not specific to your DAW. Press F3 to toggle it on/off, or go to the top to the window tab which has options for Browser, Master, Info, Outputs, Keyboard, and Quickload views. Toggle the Keyboard one.
@@zirconst Enabling it using F3 did not worked on MacOs/Logic Pro (or maybe I did something wrong) but I found the little window icon/tab on the Kontakt interface that you suggested, and was able to enable the keyboard from it. Thank you very much!
Can't for the life of me get a very simple hammer-on to trigger in Midi Guitar Mode. Convinced this functionality is not supported.
Do the slides not work in FL Studio?
They work just fine!
@@zirconst weird, I'm experiencing trouble with mine.
In FL you can automate the pitch bend.first write your riff in patterns and then in song mode paint it in with brush. Hit the gear thingy on the guitar wrapper to open it, move the pitch range wheel, hit tools directory on the top left, go to last tweaked, create an automation clip. go from pattern to song mode and paint in your auto clip. Bend your heart out.
DI sound look as its processed in some what. Sound great as DI .. but with amps they are too noisy..
Tried many vst.. ample sound (same issuess as previous), OTS, and many others. I buyed shreddage hydra and legacy. And i got good sound, but I got freaking awesome sound with musiclab reallpc (they are dman very dry sound. Its a DI of DI, but this way supposed to be so you can get from very clean to very noisey aound with amps. )
The DI sound is completely clean in all Shreddage 3 instruments!
I still can't be able to do slides with my Jupiter. I tried to follow what you do but it just doesn't work for me.
Send our support a message, ideally with a MIDI file where you're not able to trigger slides, so we can help.
SAME. this vst is incredibly buggy. i spent like 10 hours trying to fix the slides. No use.
2:26 Did you just do vibrato on an open string??
How dare
whammy bar
that little keyboard isnt showing up at the bottom of my kontakt any fix?
Press F3 in Kontakt, it's a general option :)
Or right click anywhere on the instrument.
How do you choose the tuning?
How to automate TACT ? It's not do anything when i right mouse click on it ? Please make it automatable
TACT is not automatable for technical reasons. Which controls did you need to automate?
I'm an FL Studio user and I can't control the Vibrato slider. What do I do??
You can automate it in the parameter list (in FL's browser), or you can use the modwheel/midi CC1.
@@zirconst How do I use CC1?
what a buggy hot mess
the problem lies when you apply this instument to music that was written with shreddage 2 x. it simply shits the bed and nothing works. you either have to rewrite everything (not gonna happen)
or go in and program all of the articualtions the same as on shreddage 2. thats some bullshit right there. way too much work.
Please check out the latest v1.313 update available today via Pulse. We completely revamped the default patch settings to include mute/sustain/rake/pinch harmonic switching by velocity (which you can of course change). Other articulations are available via keyswitch as before. The settings VERY closely match what we had in S2. Everything should feel way more playable out of the box.
@@ImpactSoundworksLLC this is fantastic news thank you so much!
Why is it so fucking hard to set up slides? Come on. Just make it so we can slide with notes.
You can easily do this in TACT. Just enable Portamento and put it on the same keyswitch as Sustains. However you'll need to give it a different velocity range than hammer/pull. The script needs a way to know whether it should hammer or slide to a note.
it's not that hard. first, you need to know how to read. second, you need a bit of patience, as by default on the latest version of jupiter, slides are off by default in TACT. enable them, and sliding works as expected. also ensure your velocity is at the right level to trigger a sustained note.
@@cmtcfu Why are you so hostile over a one-year-old comment?
it's a shame this software is so complex. I could master an actual guitar faster than I'm getting even basic stuff out of this VST. With no useful documentation or web tutorials from start to finish, a user is pretty much on their own
I mean that's just music production. Learning this is absolutely going to be faster than spending years learning how to play the guitar though. And cheaper as well.
1/10. I havent seen any programme that was as buggy as SHREDDAGE. DO NOT BUY FOLKS. DO NOT BUY. The Keyswitch Engine is a joke and incredibly buggy. . I am shocked how bad this is. I spent like 20 hours trying to fix this thing but no use. Like I said, DO NOT BUY.
Have you contacted our support? We've never received any bug reports of issues with keyswitches; it's the same engine used in over 10 instruments with no problems. We always help people out and make sure you're happy with your purchase.
Impact Soundworks LLC no i havent..the first thing i checked was the refund policy...after i saw that it was not possible, i tried to fix this thing(thinking it was me who was incompetent or doing mistakes)-i spent many hours, watched videos& read all forums about it, re-installed couple times-yet still couldnt fix how many bugs i encounter-for example: no matter what i do, slide function doesnt work etc,.i ll contact impact soundworks but before that i gotta inform others before they waste hours on it as well
Which virtual instrument or sample library is used for the drums in these Masterclass videos?
Shreddage Drums are used in the intro track, elsewhere Get Good Drums are used.
@@ImpactSoundworksLLC Thanks! Never heard of Get Good Drums before. My guess is that you used the GGD 'Invasion' pack? And of course I'll be sure to check out Shreddage Drums too! ;)