BOOM Interactive · Vehicle Design
GRIP
The Other Half of a Car
Done with the engine? Tyre, wheel and chassis interactions are the remaining 50 per cent.
5Base vehicle types
11Adjustable parameters
650 MBSource recordings
5Mixer channels
+And more
Skids●Bumps●Friction●Rolling Noise●Suspension Impacts●Surface Blending●Skid Pitch●Interior View●Exterior View●Onboard Mixer●& more
Wheel and chassisEvery parameter automatableFree iLok account
GRIP is a plug-in for designing tyre and chassis sounds for motion picture. Highly dynamic and authentic skids, bumps, friction and rolling noise.
A wide variety of wheel configurations, ground materials and perspectives — all of it customizable and automatable in real time, in the box.
At a Glance
- 5 base vehicle types chosen before anything else is set
- 650 MB of recordings high quality source material, ready to be shaped
- Dynamic perspectives interior or outside, with angle and distance on the fly
- No sample surgery no searching, cutting, crossfading, pitch shifting or aligning
- Onboard mixer rolling, skid, detail, chassis and suspension, each automatable
- Free iLok account machine licence or a 2nd generation USB device
Content & Detail
01What It Doesin the box▾
The jobDesign tyre and chassis sounds for motion picture — the half of a vehicle that is not the engine
What it producesSkids, bumps, friction, rolling noise and more, across wheel configurations, ground materials and perspectives
Source materialOver 650 MB of high quality recordings, prepared and ready to shape
Instead of editingNo meticulous sample searching, cutting, crossfading, pitch shifting or aligning — a few parameter tweaks, and suspension impacts on the tap of a button
Its siblingLike TURBINE, it is designed to feel and sound like the real thing 02The Controls11 parameters▾
DrivingSpeed · grip · grip / skid amount · chassis intensity
SkidSkid blending · skid pitch
GroundSurface blending · detail amount
PerspectiveInterior or exterior · angle and distance
MixerRolling, skid, detail, chassis and suspension — intensity of each mixed and automated inside GRIP
AutomationEvery parameter can be automated; record the result or plot the automation to the picture
03Use Cases and Versionv1.0.8▾
Screen workAny ground vehicle scene — car commercials, races, motion picture, trailers, product demos
InteractiveVehicle sound one-shots or loops for interactive media and games
1.0.8 fixedStability issues at sample rates above 96 kHz
04Licensingbefore you buy▾
RequiredGRIP requires a free iLok account — the industry standard BOOM uses to manage its Interactive software licences
Machine licenseFree. Deposit the licence on the computer running the software; no USB device needed, only a free account at ilok.com and the free iLok license manager USB dongleIf you already own a 2nd generation or newer iLok USB device, the licence can go on the device instead of the computer
Not for the sound packsiLok is NOT required to work with the regular BOOM Library sound FX packs
RegistrationBOOM product registration lives on this page
An engine tells the audience how fast the car is; the tyres tell them what it is driving on. That is why the surface blend here does more narrative work than the speed knob.
