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Virtual Decadence
Published on 06/20/06 at 05:40
No problem to install on my Mac Powerbook G4 Mac OS X Panther.
I first tried the demo and watched the video tutorials on the site. I have read the manual for additional parts.
The printed manual is very well done but in English. There is a PDF in French on the site.
SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE
So Mac G4 1.5 GHz (1 GB RAM, external FW HD 7200 rev / min) with Mac OS X Panther.
Sequencers used: Logic Pro 6 for now. I have not tried it with Live 5 (which is often a problem with external plugins).
Some presets are greedy but that's normal. My config is far from being a monster up-to-date and change the sounds in real time often blow up the CPU gauge, especially in a song or I have 15 tracks (freezées). So nothing unusual.
Version Audio Unit and Standalone version are the two that I use in fact.
OVERALL OPINION
Excluding the withthe We spent playing a demo, it has been three days that I use. And when I say three days, it's almost 3 X 24 hours
.
What I like most:
- Slicing the Smart.
I Recycle long time. I also used a lot PhatMatik (free version). Not to mention the Warp Live. The slicing here is by far what I have seen more practical. Due to the integrated pattern sequencer, you can see directly the South (so you can quickly change it) and the pads are automatically assigned to the sound. You win a lot of time. The fact that one can choose either the audio récupéer or the "score" (noon), or both loops is that any a priori a power kit or it becomes a bank pattern noon (or both). And then it becomes exhilarating. all users do this slicing technique: we charge a loop from which we extract the MIDI file .. then it is played using the sounds of another loop. It gives amazing results and sometimes brilliant. And there, everything was done to do this naturally and quickly.
- The drag'n'drop sounds on the pads the choice of sounds (or a loop automatically slice, hit either independently or in kits complete) since the browser is great. It allows the preview before validation of the final choice. This allows a pattern of turning to change any of the sounds and try them all before choosing one that remains. Awesome!
- It has everything that makes a good plugin "drum machine" management layers / velocity of the samples, independent filters for each sample, automation (level, pan, pitch, filter ...), management models grooves (with the possibility of creating its own) ... In short I know that Battery is the standard computer music but here I can not see what he could bring me more.
- Ability to change on each hit of each sample parameters such as the playback position of the sample, the time lag compared to a strict quantization (thus to humanize a groove) and the repetition of his ... for apeptes of breakbeats, glitch and other electronica, it has rarely been faster to get something crazy.
- Everything is controllable by MIDI note: choice of pattern, choice of a scene (set of patterns on 8 audio engine), programming beats using the pads.
- The 8 audio engine, the ability to get out the types of instruments on separate tracks, the integrated effects (either to / send to the pads or the general level of each audio engine or on the master): various compressors (with value of attack / release set for each), filters, saturation, bitcrushing, flanger / phaser ... not to mention a super efficient and Trancegate a "freezer" I can not too much to control the effects but I really enjoy (I have yet to understand what it does but at first glance it looks like something in the manages Beat Repeat Live on .. to be confirmed).
- The library of his .. and provided really good fucking. Even if the real trip is to reuse its anciennens sampled loops through the Smart kit as slicing (not to mention the possibility of using his own one shot to get a kit just by dra'n'drop Surles of sample pads) I think I'll still use a lot sounds provided.
What I like least:
- Nothing. Except that if it had a sequencer song in standalone mode, one might say "but he remains the MPC out of the hardware interface?". At the same time, since I use it in Logic, I have the most séquenceur.En scene management (which may resemble that of Live 8-track) can play a live structure.
- Ah .. if this software is a hard drug to all fans of rhythmic manipulation of samples. In addition, you can also put melodic loops (or make a loop with rhythmic loops melodic pitch as easy to use in Fruity Loops). Clearly, we tend to do a real piece in the entire software in standalone (well if you have already recorded the audio).
Honestly, with a MIDI controller to Pad (like Trigger Finger or Korg padControl) + a basic sequencer (which would only trigger patterns or scenes) ... with Guru was really a power of 10 MPC.
I have tried many plugins rhythm: Battery 2, of course, but it remains in the drum machine standard. I wanted at all costs using a slicing tool. I know the couple and PhatMatik Recycle / Dr.rex but the editing capabilities of each slice are limited (especially in Dr.Rex).
I tried Stylus RMX is top but is especially true for his big sound banks. The functions "Chaos" to a proper rave but I'd rather do it myself the delusion that leave them at a random generator.
In the end I preferred him to his Guru and ergonomics in mind generally more focused on the use of its Propes sounds.
I first tried the demo and watched the video tutorials on the site. I have read the manual for additional parts.
The printed manual is very well done but in English. There is a PDF in French on the site.
SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE
So Mac G4 1.5 GHz (1 GB RAM, external FW HD 7200 rev / min) with Mac OS X Panther.
Sequencers used: Logic Pro 6 for now. I have not tried it with Live 5 (which is often a problem with external plugins).
Some presets are greedy but that's normal. My config is far from being a monster up-to-date and change the sounds in real time often blow up the CPU gauge, especially in a song or I have 15 tracks (freezées). So nothing unusual.
Version Audio Unit and Standalone version are the two that I use in fact.
OVERALL OPINION
Excluding the withthe We spent playing a demo, it has been three days that I use. And when I say three days, it's almost 3 X 24 hours
. What I like most:
- Slicing the Smart.
I Recycle long time. I also used a lot PhatMatik (free version). Not to mention the Warp Live. The slicing here is by far what I have seen more practical. Due to the integrated pattern sequencer, you can see directly the South (so you can quickly change it) and the pads are automatically assigned to the sound. You win a lot of time. The fact that one can choose either the audio récupéer or the "score" (noon), or both loops is that any a priori a power kit or it becomes a bank pattern noon (or both). And then it becomes exhilarating. all users do this slicing technique: we charge a loop from which we extract the MIDI file .. then it is played using the sounds of another loop. It gives amazing results and sometimes brilliant. And there, everything was done to do this naturally and quickly.
- The drag'n'drop sounds on the pads the choice of sounds (or a loop automatically slice, hit either independently or in kits complete) since the browser is great. It allows the preview before validation of the final choice. This allows a pattern of turning to change any of the sounds and try them all before choosing one that remains. Awesome!
- It has everything that makes a good plugin "drum machine" management layers / velocity of the samples, independent filters for each sample, automation (level, pan, pitch, filter ...), management models grooves (with the possibility of creating its own) ... In short I know that Battery is the standard computer music but here I can not see what he could bring me more.
- Ability to change on each hit of each sample parameters such as the playback position of the sample, the time lag compared to a strict quantization (thus to humanize a groove) and the repetition of his ... for apeptes of breakbeats, glitch and other electronica, it has rarely been faster to get something crazy.
- Everything is controllable by MIDI note: choice of pattern, choice of a scene (set of patterns on 8 audio engine), programming beats using the pads.
- The 8 audio engine, the ability to get out the types of instruments on separate tracks, the integrated effects (either to / send to the pads or the general level of each audio engine or on the master): various compressors (with value of attack / release set for each), filters, saturation, bitcrushing, flanger / phaser ... not to mention a super efficient and Trancegate a "freezer" I can not too much to control the effects but I really enjoy (I have yet to understand what it does but at first glance it looks like something in the manages Beat Repeat Live on .. to be confirmed).
- The library of his .. and provided really good fucking. Even if the real trip is to reuse its anciennens sampled loops through the Smart kit as slicing (not to mention the possibility of using his own one shot to get a kit just by dra'n'drop Surles of sample pads) I think I'll still use a lot sounds provided.
What I like least:
- Nothing. Except that if it had a sequencer song in standalone mode, one might say "but he remains the MPC out of the hardware interface?". At the same time, since I use it in Logic, I have the most séquenceur.En scene management (which may resemble that of Live 8-track) can play a live structure.
- Ah .. if this software is a hard drug to all fans of rhythmic manipulation of samples. In addition, you can also put melodic loops (or make a loop with rhythmic loops melodic pitch as easy to use in Fruity Loops). Clearly, we tend to do a real piece in the entire software in standalone (well if you have already recorded the audio).
Honestly, with a MIDI controller to Pad (like Trigger Finger or Korg padControl) + a basic sequencer (which would only trigger patterns or scenes) ... with Guru was really a power of 10 MPC.
I have tried many plugins rhythm: Battery 2, of course, but it remains in the drum machine standard. I wanted at all costs using a slicing tool. I know the couple and PhatMatik Recycle / Dr.rex but the editing capabilities of each slice are limited (especially in Dr.Rex).
I tried Stylus RMX is top but is especially true for his big sound banks. The functions "Chaos" to a proper rave but I'd rather do it myself the delusion that leave them at a random generator.
In the end I preferred him to his Guru and ergonomics in mind generally more focused on the use of its Propes sounds.