Smaller Maschine Mikro from NI + Update 1.7

NATIVE INSTRUMENTS :they have shrunken the Maschine: Mikro, they changed the display and size, may fit in nice in front of the macbook pro?.. the software upates to 1.7, my experience with standalone 1.6 was: freezing. so hope for better stability. 350€. So it’s about 200€ less compared to the bigger one. – In German this little Maschine should be called Maschinchen

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NI – Komplete 8, Kontakt 5, Mix (EQ,Compressor) & Real Drum Instrument like virtual drummer kind of stuff

Native Instruments releases Komplete 8 and Kontakt 5 soon (September). they also add a real drummer kind of instrument – so this includes recorded full loops but still hosted within Kontakt Player – so this may not be as „intelligent“ as the virtual drummer (Addictive / Easy Drummer) kind of plugins around called studio drummer – uhm, I’d really like some algorithmic kind of tool to be honest… – along this there’s EQ & Compressor pack called solid mix and transient master. so this is -like UAD – a mix…

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Native Instruments Razor Spectral Additive Synth

NI has released a new synth based on spectral or better additive synthesis. Different from others is the 3D view and oscilloscope. there are also some more „preset“ oscillator waveforms, so the special thing is to have some nice pre set settings, looks like they gotthe focus on how to work with additive synthesis by macros which is still the real problem deadling with all bands (other got more bands of course like 4k or 512), the nice one is – it has a section that looks and feels like…

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Reaktor 5.5 Beta – (Forumsdiskussion)

Reaktor 5.5 Beta ist draussen. Switch Programs in DAW, new darker GUI. Automap seems to work with it, also. Sounds umschalten in der DAW geht jetzt direkt und neue GUI gibt es auch, Automap scheint auch zu funktionieren damit.. * Additive synthesis capabilities (based on new „Sine Bank“ module) * Modal synthesis capabilities (based on new „Modal Bank“ module) * Instruments can now be loaded as ensembles and vice versa * Revised one-window GUI with flexible „split“ view * Unified interface layout for standalone and plugin operation * New full-screen…

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