Roland AIRA MC-707 🧻🧻💩
Updated 11 Sept 2024 with new information about a third party editor. This is the fourth version of this article, and I have become more critical. I recently decided to…
Tag: sampler
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Native Instruments Komplete Ultimate 13 🧻🧻🧻
Like a fat guy running down the street chased by wolves trying not to drop his ice cream. As an owner of Komplete 9 I’ve been offered an upgrade to…
Kilohearts Phase Plant 2 🧻🧻🧻
There is something called Superbooth which seems to involve a competition for how many cables you can shove into a box full of sockets without the marbles falling down a…
Arturia V Collection 11 🧻🧻🧻🧻
“YES BUT THIS COLLECTION GOES UP TO ELEVEN” This page covers the V Collection from version 9 onward. It is currently being refreshed.For earlier versions please go to this page…
Sampling in the 20’s
I’d like to put forward three major eras in the cultural development of digital sound sampling. You can slice it many other ways but this trio will be useful here.…
See ya later Emulator (leaving on a Z-Plane)
With the recent release of the Rossum Z-Plane Filter there’s been a renewed interest in E-Mu’s strange filter technology, once featured in the Morpheus and UltraProteus racks. Actually I wouldn’t…
AIR Structure 🧻🧻
If you use Pro Tools you probably know Structure Free. It’s the included sample player – grudgingly castrated in the way that only AVID can grudge. Yes, you can drop…
Elektron Octatrack Mk1 🧻🧻
Update August ’21 After much to-ing and fro-ing and watching of videos I went and bought an old Octatrack Mk1, even though I decided against it as my live stage…
Arturia Microfreak v5 🧻🧻🧻💩
More updates – now with three and a half knobs. Before anything else – thank Arturia for actually trying out ideas not the regurgitation practised by Behringer and Roland. In…
Steinberg Padshop 2.2 🧻🧻🧻🧻🧻
Updates and corrections April 2024 Padshop was once a granular synthesiser in Cubase that you’d play with on the odd occasion. Granular synthesis is lovely for pads and waft –…