LEARN THE ENGINE
The Cadence Engine™ Walkthrough Series
The video manual for the Cadence Engine. Eight parts, covering the sequencer, variation, modulation, and the effects chains, one section at a time. Watch straight through, or jump to the part you need.
Part 1 · The Cadence Engine, Concept and Overview
THE SERIES
Eight parts, in order.
A feature walkthrough, not a preset showcase. Audio examples appear where a feature needs ears as well as eyes.
01
What the engine is, the three ideas behind it, how the combinations math works, and the layout of the interface.
6 min
02
The four workflows and how they map to the keyboard, the Meter and Poly preset categories, and the clock behavior to know before you load your first preset.
03
Blocks and steps, rate and meter, direction and octave, the five per-step modes, and how Length works alongside the Step Envelope.
12 MIN • coming August 31
04
Variation
The Flux Randomizer on and off, Dynamics, the Humanizer, the side-rail Randomizer and its lock, and linking values between layers.
8 MIN • Coming september 7
05
One-Shot View
The per-source editor: start point, tuning, filters, and balancing source levels when you are building a kit.
4 MIN
SEPTEMBER 14
06
Modulation
The Master LFO, rate modes, per-destination attenuators and how they combine with depth, bypass and polarity, the crossfade matrix and mod wheel link, and MIDI Learn.
8 MIN
SEPTEMBER 21
07
Per-Layer FX
The seven-module strip on each layer: saturation, distortion, lo-fi, tape, delay, chorus, and convolution reverb, plus modulating them with the LFO.
10 MIN
SEPTEMBER 28
08
Master FX
Saturation and compression, Solid EQ, reverb, limiting, and the summary row that puts the headline parameter of each module in reach.
8 MIN
OCTOBER 5
MORE VIDEOS
Outside the series.
Three videos that sit apart from the numbered parts: getting set up, hearing the instrument, and where the sounds came from.
Installation and Setup
Native Access, Kontakt 8.1, and finding your way around: Default and Classic views, the instrument header, the preset menu, the Master Editor, the Banks browser, and saving your own presets.
Preset Showcase
Sound first. Presets playing across the four workflows, with no teaching and no interface tour. The fastest way to hear what the instrument does.
Sampling and Gear
The hardware behind the sources, how the material was captured, and what the no acoustic, no digital constraint meant in practice.
read it instead
The Envoy manual.
Every parameter on the instrument, documented in full, with callouts for each control on every page of the interface. Useful alongside the series, or on its own.
the first instrument
ANALOG PERCUSSION
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