Arturia V Collection 9 🧻🧻🧻
This is a new page which covers version 9 of this software suite (updated).For earlier versions go to this page to see the buff smurfs. I feel a cold wind.…
Tag: sampler
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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 –…
Steinberg HALion 7 🧻🧻🧻🧻
Updated for version 7 and many errors punched. I have written about eras of sampling, and the horror of owning hardware in a seething pit of wires. That leads to…
UVI Falcon 2🧻🧻🧻
Pizza with the Lot The first time I opened this I had a double take … hang on … I’ve seen this before… it’s Steinberg’s Halion. Given Halion has been…
Apple Alchemy 🧻🧻🧻🧻
Camel Alchemy was reborn as an Apple product. Nice for some. This is the complete negation of hardware, the do everything, super-bloody-complex mega-synth that is completely and utterly disinterested in…