Cool step sequencer for bass lines and arps. Lots of these types of plugins out there as far as sequencers go, but many can have a steep learning curve, whereas this one is very intuitive and easy to get to grips with Nice use of two sets of 4 sequencer blocks which you can set your key and alter randomly or set your own with pitch,octaves, gate, velocity etc. Resizeable GUI is good to have and it looks great too! Well worth checking out!
Amazing analogue synth that does not use samples in its architecture. Just scratching the surface at the moment with this plug in , but no doubt this thing goes very deep and from what i can make out the modulation possibilities are quite staggering and unique with it's 16 step times 8 sequencing. WoW!! The sounds are awesome and probably one of, if not the best , i've heard when it comes to ambient styled drones. Oh! and it's very low on the CPU too!
ArcSyn is a 16-voice polyphonic virtual analogue synthesizer plug-in with many unusual features.
No samples—all oscillator waveforms are generated from scratch.
Many unique waveforms including Sub-harmonics, Bit-Noise and FM Crossfade.
Unique LFOs feature wave sequencing and hundreds of unusual waveforms including many random types.
Powerful, self-oscillating filters based on the Oberheim Matrix 12.
Many unusual filter types like Frequency Shifter, Scramble and Multi-Alias.
Smooth, natural sound quality throughout—Oscillators and filters are 4X oversampled, all audio processing is done in 64-bit arithmetic and control signals are updated at 5500Hz or higher.
Comes with over 400 programs.
MIDI controller learn.
Easy program organisation—rearrange programs and folders using your computer's file system.
A pretty cool generative machine for Ableton Live! I love this kind of thing and have tried most of the similar plug ins to create random non repeating music.This ones partcularly nice in the respect of being able to create loops and the stringing together of several instances of Patter to create even more complex polyrhythmic structures which bounce back and forth. Great stuff! Another one of those instances where it can be as simple or as complex as you like!
Get to grips with Patter, a creative MIDI effect for Max for Live that creates truly surprising musical ideas. Its ability to generate unique rhythms and melodies, and deft control over randomization elements make it an exciting tool for those looking for inspiration and experimentation.
Patter can help you create wild and experimental MIDI patterns for use with any synth or drum machine. It’s a highly flexible tool that can be used alone for musical inspiration and improvisation, or chained together for real free-flowing creativity. And since it's built in Max For Live, every parameter can be mapped to MIDI hardware for hands-on control.
How it works
Patter generates MIDI a few notes at a time, in “segments”. A segment is made up of one or more notes and rests of equal duration. You control the number and duration of the segments, and with each rhythmic parameter, you can create different amounts of randomization and variation.
Once you’ve created your rhythm, you can add dynamics by tweaking accent parameters and use the pitch control to introduce levels of note randomisation. Then, to narrow down the options, you can select notes spanning three octaves. You can use your MIDI keyboard to input notes on the fly and create a truly unpredictable yet responsive music generator.
Quite a hefty download size but well worth it! An excellent sounding phrase/arp generator with a plethora of modulations and neat sequencing tricks, such as scale syncing and including the ability to record your own phrases. A very intuitive interface and logically laid out design make this a quite wonderfull plugin.
SEQui2R is a step sequencer, gater, arpeggiator and pulse engine all morphed into one unique Kontakt instrument.
You choose the notes that suit your composition and SEQui2R will do the rest.
Its perfect for creating a wide range of sounds including but not limited to:
Pulsing rhythms
Modulating synths lines
Moving soundscapes
Everything in between
Use it for cinematic music, EDM, underscore, ambient and anything else you can think of that needs some beautiful, lush, dark, gritty or thundering pulsing sounds!Something has changed in SEQui2R
From now on SEQui2R is sold only as SEQui2R EX.
It includes all the expansions plus the new Expansion 4 “Fingers and plectrums”.
SEQui2R EX’s engine has been updated to V1.3 and includes some new features.
Sub Sound Sources
SEQui2R EX now includes 2 new Sub Layers. One per Sound Source.
You can choose 2 additional sounds and decide at what velocity they will play instead of the main sound source.
This adds amazing new possibilities for complex sequences of evolving/ variating sounds.
All Expansions Included
SEQui2R EX includes all 4 Expansions.
A total of 11.35 GB (NCW Compressed), 660 Sound Sources.
Over 435000 sound combinations.
SEQui2R EX Sound Sources include: Organic and acoustic instruments, Digital and Analog synths, Guitars and Basses, Ethnic Instruments, Atonal Percussions and much more. All of them Natural and Morphed to the Impossible.
And with ALL the Expansion Packs SEQui2R EX’s sounds palette becomes
Unique Step Sequencer
SEQui2R is more than a step sequencer, a gater, an arpeggiator or a pulse engine
With SEQui2R You are in control.
You choose the notes that suit your composition and SEQui2R will do the rest.
SEQui2R features two separated sound engines, 8 distinct phrases recorders, with independent step panner, step volume, 2 step filters, step distortion and a step lo-fi per engine.
Saving The Best For Last!
SEQui2R EX incredible Step Sequencer unique features include:
Reveseable sounds per step,
Portamento per step
2 Stutter Modes per step
Ornamento Per step
Random/ Improvisation per Step!
Multi edit modes,
Random sound/ Fx/ phrases Generator,
Midi Drag And Drop Function
and much more!
Looks extremely complex, and it is, but with the various randomization features one can instantly come up with ever evolving sound textures that never repeat. Very nice indeed! Certainly looks like a lot of very detailed work went into this beast.
Blendstrument Motion Textures was created by Academy Award, TEC and G.A.N.G Award Winning Composer, Troels Folmann and one of the world’s leading experimental music designers, .
The Blendstrument is a deep creative environment that gives you the ability to create an entire new instrument with a single click of a button. The Blendstrument has an infinite amount of combinations and can never produce the same instrument twice. It can generate anything from the most beautiful angelic ambiences to pulsing filmic motion textures, anything from dark and disturbing textures to the most extraordinary EDM drums.
The Blendstrument Motion Texture Edition was created around an advance PULSE architecture that allows the instrument to PULSE between different samples in sync with your DAW Host-Tempo. In addition it contains over 300 hand-crafted Textural Convolutions that creates a textural delay to the Blendstrument. The Blendstrument also comes with a full REVERSED patch, which gives that backwards feel to the Blendstrument. We also added our newest Chaos FX 3.3 and a brand new Panorama architecture that allows individual tuning and panning of each sample layer.
The Blendstrument contains over 21GB of content (compressed to 7.5GB) created by Prof. Mario Bajardi by using a very complicated chained setup that includes a full KYMA system and ability to physically draw waveforms in real-time.
The Blendstrument is like an eternal box of chocolates. You never know what you are gonna get. But we promise whatever you create will be yours and yours only. It is our intention to offer this tool, so you can create something entirely unique.
Total Randomization & FX
The BLENDSTRUMENT is designed around the ability to randomize everything and create completely new sounds and instrument that no mortal soul has ever heard. This includes the ability to RANDOMIZE everything, including samples, sample parameters, global effects, anything that could possible be randomized. All it takes is a single click and you have created an entire, never heard before, universe of sounds.
Pulse Architecture
The BLENDSTRUMENT is designed to be a rhythmic, pulsing instrument that adapts to your DAW Host-Tempo. We designed in such a way that you can PULSE between two different pods, which each contains a fully loaded Blendstrument. The PULSE architecture allows you control all crucial elements in the pulsing, including MIX, PAN and SPEED of the PULSE. If that is not enough – try combining it with our advanced GATE function too.
Textural Convolutions
Textural Convolutions is a new way of using convolution to create textural delays. The idea is to use non-conventional convolution impulses to augment the existing sound. So when the instrument delays – you will not just get a normal delay of the instrument, but also get the delay and texture of the convolution. This concept is called Textural Convolutions and we hand-crafted over 300 new impulses for the Blendstrument. The Textural Convolutions can also be randomized.
Reversed Blendstrument
We also created the entire Blendstrument in REVERSE. Every single sample now plays backwards – creating an entirely new take on the Blendstrument. This is great for creating more underscore type of beds and works fantastic with regular Blendstrument too. A great trick is to load two instances of Blendstrument. One regular and one reversed. Assign them to same midi-channel and active one POD in each. You now have both forward and reversed at the same time.
Chaos Effects 3.3
The Blendstrument contains a massive global FX section and RANDOMIZATION system, but we also added our latest 3.3 FX Chaos Engine on top. This feature is recommended for power-users that want to shape their Blendstrumentation even further, including Filter, Step-Based Filter, EQ, Bit-Crusher, Distortion, Dual Stereo-Delay and two additional convolution systems on top of our custom Textural Convolutions.
Panorama
One of the most unique features of the Blendstrument is the fact that each sample comes in 5 completely different variations. You can control each of these variations independently, so essentially have 5 variations of the same sample behave, pan and pitch completely on their own. We call this feature PANORAMA. The PANORAMA creates highly advanced poly-rhythmic and poly-panoramic (new word!) feel to the Blendstrument.
•5.000 custom samples created by Prof. Mario Bajardi
•Advanced Pulse Architecture
•Two FX Systems. Global FX and Chaos FX 3.3
•300 New Textural Convolutions (Tempo-Synced to DAW)
•100 Preset Examples
•Ability to create an entire instrument with a single click
•Ability to load/save individual Blendstruments
•Ability to design your own Blendstrument from ground-up
•Ability to RANDOMIZE all global FX with a single click
•Ability to RANDOMIZE & STACK as many sounds you want
•Ability to Pulse Pan each layer using PANORAMA
•Reversed Blendstrument – with all samples reversed
•Hyper Advanced Instrument Generator
•+21GB (compressed to 7.5GB) of all-new content
•+300 New Textural Convolutions
•+100.000 lines of custom code for new FX 3.3 system
•Instant Instrument Randomizer
•Instant FX Randomizer
•Full Retail Version of Kontakt 5.5 (or later) Required
Very impressive drum synth/ analogue machine. A staggering amount of genres/presets and options to tailor make your drum sounds and make them your own. Great layering possibilities with the multis or easily create your own. Definitely one of the best of it's kind with a nice interface too!
DM307’s samples are derived from modular synth drums, live percussion and classic analogue drum machines. In total, the library contains 7.5GB of uncompressed samples (although this only uses 4.8GB of hard-drive space with NI’s lossless compression) with more than 3600 samples spread across 1500 plus presets.
The library is a download-only product and will work quite happily with the free version of Kontakt Player or, as I used for the review, the full version of Kontakt 5. Installation and authentication follows standard practice for Kontakt and I had no problems with any of these steps.
While DM307 is built upon this extensive collection of loops and single-hit samples, it is various preset structures and the Kontakt-based sound manipulation tools that go a long way to defining what the instrument is about. I’ll come to the Kontakt interface in a minute, but let’s start with the library structure.
At the top level, the presets are organised into instruments and multis, with seven instrument and two multi types. Many of the individual samples will appear in a number of presets, but the way they are presented, and what you can do with them, will be different in each case.
For example, the DM307 Style Kits instrument presets are each built on five groups of sounds: kicks, snares, hats, percussion and cymbals/FX. Within each kit, you get 12 different sounds in each group (12 different kicks, 12 different snares, etc.) mapped across five consecutive octaves of the keyboard. While you can trigger any of these sounds via the appropriate MIDI note, as we will see in a minute, the interface includes a five-lane grid editor for creating step-based patterns using these five groups of sounds. The Kit Groove instruments are based around the Style Kits but also include a series of patterns (for that five-lane grid editor). There are plenty of these presets and they are organised into genre-based themes covering Drum & Bass, Dubstep, Electronic, Hybrid Scoring, Industrial Edge, Latin Organic and Rock.
In both these instrument types, the sounds themselves offer a huge variety, from fairly conventional acoustic drums through to electronic and analogue synth drum sounds with and without processing. I could easily imagine the basic sounds working in contemporary film score, almost any style of modern electronic dance music and through into cutting-edge electronica.
The Elements Kits each take a specific sound group — kicks, hats, snares, for example — and map a collection of sounds of that type across five octaves. The Impacts and FX group does something similar but with a series of much more unconventional sounds such as pitch dives, reversed hits, sweeps, sirens, risers and analogue hits. The Standard MIDI Kits map a selection of the Style Kits in a fashion suitable for standard third-party MIDI drum loops or a MIDI drum kit.
The Loop Menus group is also genre-themed, covering Electronic, Ethnic Mashup, Hybrid Scoring, Industrial Mashup, Urban Mashup and utility Elements. Each preset contains multiple octaves of mapped loops, some focused on one instrument type (snares, kicks, etc.) while in others you get a mixture of different single-instrument loops. The latter are great fun to experiment with; just hit a combination of keys and see what rhythmically interesting drum and percussion performances just pop out. The ease with which you can instantly create some really interesting and fresh electronic beats is just a touch embarrassing.
The final instrument type is the Single Loops. These presets contain a single, beat-sliced, loop mapped across the MIDI keyboard. The Advanced Loop section of the interface includes a ‘MIDI To Host’ button so you can simply drag and drop a MIDI phrase to your host DAW to trigger the loop and editing so you can create as many variations of the original loop as you desire.
Finally, there are also two sets of Multi presets — Performance and Production — that organise the instrument presets into Kontakt bundles. Both sets contain five instruments, each configured for a different MIDI channel, but the Performance Multis have been assembled by named artists.
As mentioned earlier, the second key creative element comes from the options for sound manipulation provided by the Kontakt interface. In a review of this length, it’s difficult to do justice to just how many ways you can mangle these sounds, but there are many. Certain features replicate those offered in Damage, but there are additions here and the interface has a more modern vibe. For example, you get the rather wonderful Punish and Twist controls in the main part of the interface, a series of master effects, volume envelopes that can be applied at the ‘bank’ or individual sample levels, trigger effects that can be applied in real time from your MIDI keyboard to add distortion, filter, panning, lo-fi and delay effects, EQ and filter effects that can be applied at sample or ‘master’ level and a filter LFO.
Perhaps the feature worth a few additional words is the Grid. This provides a five-lane pattern editor for the Style Kits and Kit Grooves. Each lane relates to one of the five sound groups within the Style Kit or Kit Groove presets and you can trigger individual lanes or all lanes for playback. Within a preset, you can create up to eight different patterns and sequence these within the Chainer.
However, the fun really starts when you get into the Amp Sequencer (where you can create and apply a 16-step amplifier pattern to create some classic stutter effects) and when you switch the Grid view to show the other programmable properties for a specific lane. Here you can apply step-based values for both velocity and sample on a per-lane basis. This means that you can programme (for example) which of your 12 snare samples in the preset plays on a particular step. This is a lot of fun and the potential for creating twisted, dynamic patterns is huge.
Time To Groove
So, we have a huge library of excellent — and very varied — drum and percussion sounds and an interface that allows you to play and manipulate those (already inspiring) sounds in a whole host of ways. It is only fair to say, therefore, that to get the best out of DM307, you do need to put in a bit of initial effort.
However, that effort soon repays itself in spades. That’s not to say that there isn’t some instant gratification to be had, though; load up a Kit Groove and let the patterns play or bring up a Loop Menu preset and just randomly hit a few keys and see what pops out. Either way, it is almost impossible not to find something good within a couple of minutes.
The bottom line here is that DM307 contains a staggering amount of rhythmic potential. The sounds are fabulous and the Kontakt interface, while it takes a little while to fully explore, is an absolute joy to use and gives you masses of additional sound-shaping options. Put these things together and DM307 is an impressive package. As a source for modern electronic beats, there is a pretty endless set of possibilities here and, almost without exception, they sound brilliant.
Conclusion
At $299, DM307 is perhaps not a casual purchase for many. However, I’d have no hesitation in saying that it represents good value for money. And while Damage was most obviously aimed at media composers, this is a library I could easily imagine using in a wide variety of contexts from music-to-picture through any modern electronic dance genre and off into pop or rock. Whether it’s for film/TV or for straight music production, if you want to create modern electronic beats that you can tweak to within an inch of their life, DM307 is a hit.
•7.5 GB uncompressed (4.8GB on Disk with NI lossless compression)
•3,600+ samples
•1500+ NKIs
•85 Kits
•180+ Kit Grooves
•55 Loop Menus
•1200+ Single Loop Presets
•300 Performance Multis
•The Grid™ drum machine for easy beat creation
•Playable Trigger FX™ for real-time control
•Loop Mutator™ for real-time re-composing of loops
Alter Echo goes way beyond most echo/delay plugins with lots of unique features not found elsewhwere. Seems to be quite complex in terms of how deep one can go with this. Lots and lots of presets though to get you going.
AlterEcho is a supercharged delay effect which can add complex rhythm and tone to your sounds. It is transport-synced with step-based parameters, enabling powerful control of your sound over time.
Alter Echo specializes in creating rhythmic delays. It allows you to take high-level control of how echo behaves over time, so you can create and experiment with complex rhythmic movement. You can apply Alter Echo to your existing clips and sequences, or process incoming signals by dropping it on an Audio Input. It's great for turning an ordinary drum loop into a spaced-out new rhythm, or for taking a pad, synth or instrument line and making it move and pump in time. On a live input the step based delays can provide inspiration for new grooves and melodies for live performers.
Building on their popular Herse slicing effect, K-Devices have re-imagined delay with step based control. The "What" and "When" sequence lanes offer transport-synced control of both how much audio is sent to the delay units and when the delay is heard. Unique ramps and shapes in the "What" Lane let you create organic sequences to feed the delay. The "Texturize" section offers a second delay with two playheads that can be "shifted" into your sound. This has independent timing and can be used in "Forwards", "Backwards" and "Forwards-Backwards" modes alongside the main output signal. A filter unit and unique wet/dry side chain compressor let you to sculpt the balance of your sound. You can use Alter Echo in stereo or in dual mono with completely independent control of left and right channels.
