SessionBand Ukulele Band 1 vs Attack Softener Usage & Stats
Create stunning Ukulele tracks to your own chords in minutes with the dedicated Ukulele version of the award-winning SessionBand app – the world's only chord-based loop app.
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Volume 1 includes 15 Ukulele band styles recorded exclusively for SessionBand by three of the world's leading musicians. It's everything you need to produce your own studio-quality tracks with over 11,000 chord-based Ukulele, Cajon, Shaker and Bass loops included in the download!
Create real Ukulele tracks to your own chords with the legendary Chuck Morgan on Ukulele (William Galison, Bobby Shew, Lanny Morgan...), Danny Cummings on Percussion (Dire Straits, Elton John, Bryan Adams...) and Geoff Gascoyne on Bass (Sting, Van Morrison, Eartha Kitt...).
Create your own full and contemporary Ukulele tracks in minutes with 15 distinct styles inspired by legends of popular Ukulele music from George Formby through to Jack Johnson, Jason Mraz and Bruno Mars.
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Whether you're a songwriter, instrumentalist, producer or simply love Ukulele music, SessionBand instantly converts the chords you select into great-sounding audio.
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The fastest way to create studio-quality Ukulele music...
• Pick one of 15 popular Ukulele styles
• Choose your chords
• Stretch or shorten loops in seconds
• Build up your track in minutes with 'Track Builder'
• Instantly hear your track across different Ukulele styles and tempos
• Auto-transpose your entire track (not electronic pitch shift!)
• Mix your track (manual or automated)
• Adjust track tempo
• Record direct to audio
• Copy to other music apps (if you want to)
• Share with the world!
The ultimate play-along and practice tool...
• Practice with your very own world-class Ukulele band
• Loop markers let you focus on specific sections
• Mute/Solo channels as you like (manual and automated)
• 'Flip' your track instantly across different Uke styles and tempos
You don't have to be a musician to make seriously good Ukulele tracks and release them royalty-free!
• Simple, intuitive interface
• Audition the loops as you go
• 'Track Builder' allows simple creation of a full track
• Intuitive mixing and record functions
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• No internet access required (once downloaded)
Detailed Product Information
• 15 popular Ukulele band styles
• Tempos from 85bpm to 200bpm
• 10 most popular chord variations for every root note in all 15 styles: maj; 7; min; m7; m7(b5); maj7; dim; aug; 9; 6
• Each of the 15 styles includes 10 alternative percussion grooves / fills in addition to the 'main' pattern for that style
• The exclusive musical content in this app is not duplicated in any other SessionBand app
• All loops are offered royalty-free and can be used freely in your own works
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Attack Softener is an effect that fades the beginning of each note you play to remove the attack transient. This allows you to make synth-like sounds with almost any instrument (guitar, bass, piano, etc.)
HOW DOES IT WORK?
It functions similarly to a transient shaper. Unlike a transient shaper though, it can bring the volume of attack sounds down to near zero quickly enough to silence the pick sound of an electric guitar in very fast music.
WHAT IS IT USED FOR?
It works with any instrument but we really like to use it with electric guitar. We recommend the following effect chain: Guitar -> Attack Softener -> Compressor -> Reverb. The combination of the attack softener and compressor is especially nice because the compressor keeps the volume balanced when playing clean solos but heavy compression intensifies the pick click noise, making it inappropriate for many styles of music. With the Attack Softener placed before the compressor you can get a nice, even clean solo tone that doesn't have punchy hard pick sounds. This allows you to play solos with a clean tone, where normally you would have to use distortion or overdrive to get sustain, now you can get that distorted "light touch" feel without the harshness of distortion.
MORE TECHNICAL EXPLANATION OF HOW IT WORKS
A transient shaper creates two volume envelopes. One rises immediately and falls slowly; the other rises slowly and falls slowly. The difference between these two envelopes indicates how far the volume should be reduced to silence the attack. However, changing the volume very quickly usually causes noise in the sound because of volume changes that happen naturally during the sustain part of the notes. This plugin is different from ordinary transient shapers because it combines several new methods to help it differentiate between real attack transients and other volume changes, and it uses dynamic filters that adjust the response time to ensure that it can respond quickly without introducing audible clicking sounds when the volume changes.
IS THERE ANY OTHER EFFECT LIKE THIS OR IS IT SOMETHING NEW?
EHX makes a pedal called Attack / Decay that does something similar. There are several other pedals that also do swell effects. All of them are designed for long fades and slow playing except the EHX one, which can operate faster by separating each new note onto its own audio channel using spectral processing. That spectral note separation distorts the tone signficiantly. This Attack Softener plugin is the only effect we are aware of that handles fast picking while preserving the original tone of the instrument.
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SessionBand Ukulele Band 1 VS. 
Attack SoftenerJanuary 5, 2025