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Example workflows

Visco can behave like a precise drum instrument, an open-ended sound-design tool, or a source of continuously changing material. These starting points show how its main systems fit together.

Build velocity-responsive drums

A drum changes in more ways than volume when it is played harder. Begin with one clear source, then use Dynamics, Model, and the velocity curve to shape both level and timbre across the velocity range.

With a suitable source and curve, one analyzed sound can cover quiet and hard hits without requiring a stack of velocity-switched samples. If you use drum pads, test the response from the softest reliable hit to the hardest and adjust the curve around your actual playing range.

Route individual sounds through your host

Visco’s mixer can send each pad to the master output or to one of eight separate stereo outputs.

  1. Open the Mixer view.
  2. Choose a separate output for the sound you want to process externally.
  3. Create the matching input or return channel in your host.
  4. Add the host effects or routing you need on that channel.

Separate outputs bypass Visco’s send and master effects, so the external channel receives the individual sound before those stages.

Transform material beyond drums

Visco’s analysis is especially effective with percussive material, but imported audio does not have to be a drum. Try short instrument notes, voices, field recordings, mechanical sounds, or fragments from a longer recording.

In Kit Mode, unusual sources become a playable set of related textures. In Tonal Mode, a single analyzed sound can become a pitched instrument with oscillator shape, harmonic stretch, unison, glide, and sustain-position control.

Animate the source crossfader

The crossfader moves continuously between sources A and B. Map it to a hardware control for live transformation, automate it in the host, or modulate it inside Visco.

Slow movement can transform one kit or texture into another across an arrangement. Faster envelopes, LFOs, or sample-and-hold modulation can create a different blend on each note. For a more deliberate hybrid, keep the crossfader static and find the point where the attack of one source meets the body or tail of the other.