It’s simple to use, without sacrificing the deep editing and tweaking that you need to polish your tracks to perfection.
SparkLE hardware and the Spark software make up a sophisticated beat creation environment that gives you a hands-on, inspiring and unique way to create patterns, sounds and live performances. This allows you to have your kick drum follow the bass root note for deep lows, play a synth bass/lead sound or transform percussion sounds into pitched instruments. Tune mode lets you play your sounds chromatically across the 16 buttons or the 8 pads.
Write automation and control your sounds in real-time with the 3 assignable encoders and the 3 Instrument modes on the XY pad. Transform your beats with the touch-sensitive FX pad that features 8 filter modes (including their Oberheim SEM filter) and 7 different Slicer modes. It may be small, but the SparkLE hardware gives you direct access to all of the features you need when making patterns, writing automation and performing live. SparkLE puts the power of the fully-featured Spark 2 Engine software into a new, ultra-compact package. By combining the amazing sounds, work flow and creative tools of the Spark Engine software, with the high quality SparkLE controller, Arturia has created the ultimate beat creating powerhouse! The Arturia SparkLE is a hybrid instrument that will take your beat creation to new levels.
For further editing, the usual copy, paste, insert, and delete functions allow more detailed sculpting.ĭownload PDF Manual: ARTSPARKLE_Manual.Arturia SparkLE Hardware Controller and Software Drum Machine - 420101 Simply enter song mode, and drag and drop the patterns required, one by one. The song mode allows for chaining patterns in any order. It is a simple matter to organize all the newly created patterns into a song. Fourteen digital effects provide further sonic manipulation.
Each track of the step sequencer has fifteen parameters per instrument that can be automated plus full automation of all the insert effects parameters for that instrument. Each of these parameters can be automated in the software or controlled via the assignable encoders on the controller. The software mixer provides a familiar interface for controlling the level, pan, insert effects and sends of instruments. The divide and move functions allow for setting the size and position of the loop within a pattern, and shifting these in real-time helps create new and interesting beats. Three assignable encoders work with the currently selected sound, controlling functions like pitch, instrument filter cutoff and resonance, insert effect parameters, as well as the other synthesis parameters in each engine. An advanced Looper acts on the pattern position itself, and allows repeating sections of a pattern at the press of a button.
The Slicer provides beat slicing, reverse playback, deep Tape drop effects, Strobe, beat sync pans, bit crushers, and more. A global filter allows for processing an entire mix through an 8-mode filter. The touch-sensitive XY Pad offers real-time performance effects for transforming beats.
Or rhythms can be recorded in real-time using the two banks of eight velocity and pressure sensitive backlit pads, either quantized or free form. Patterns can have up to sixty-four steps. Sixteen sequencer buttons allow for quick sequencing while acting as a visual reference. The package integrates classic "TR"-style step sequencing with real-time beat making. It takes the best elements from a wide variety of vintage analog drum machines, sample based beat boxes and physical modeling, and delivers a modern beat station with synthesis and expressive control. SparkLE is a hybrid instrument from Arturia that combines the sounds, work flow and creative tools of the Spark Engine software with a hardware controller.