Craig's Tip: Impact Light/Dark Look

[Craig Anderton]

This came as a surprise to me, I don't recall seeing this mentioned in the documentation so thought it might be worth a post. Although you can no longer choose different Impact skins like you could in Studio One, if you click on the name Impact toward the upper left, you can toggle between light and dark looks.

 

[tpittman]

This came as a surprise to me, I don't recall seeing this mentioned in the documentation so thought it might be worth a post. Although you can no longer choose different Impact skins like you could in Studio One, if you click on the name Impact toward the upper left, you can toggle between light and dark looks.

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Definitely worth the post if a person didn't know. The light look is what I like. I wish Impact was
more friendly for me. Maybe I need to spend more time on it. All those presets and I have a hard
time finding anything useful. The new Drum function in the Metronome as really helped me out as a
starting point and pretty much eliminated most needs for Impact. Ezdrummer kicks in after the starting
point

 

[Craig Anderton]

All those presets and I have a hard
time finding anything useful.

Understood. I think part of the problem is inconsistent assignments, so if you change kits, you get unexpected results. For example, a pad might be kick in one preset, and tembourine in another. I realize presets can't have 100% consistency, but some general conventions could help.

Where Impact excels is for making your own kits. It handles multisamples quite well, and has the editing you need to tweak the files you use. But, then you get into the Sound Set creation morass. In theory it's not that difficult, but I never seem to get it right. Now that the Sound Set Builder is included and not a separate download, I need to give it another try.

 

[chichogp]

Mai Tai, SampleOne and Presence also have this feature. I like the dark mode but I'd be lying if I say I don't miss the colors. Light mode feels like a Counter Strike flashbang.