The best drum machine plugin of all time, Sonic Charge’s Microtonic, has a new gift for its users. The Swedish company has released BeatSpace, a freely downloadable script. It is based on data from nearly 30000 Patternarium presets, used to train a neural network to create stellar-sounding beats and to…
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Beat Scholar – Beatmaking Meets Pizza
You already have are tons of drum machine plugins, I know. Yet, I believe Beat Scholar – the first plugin by Modalics – is worth your attention, as it presents an entirely new way to compose rhythm in the digital domain. In the developers’ words, Beat Scholar gets you:• A…
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Softube Adds Vermona Random Rhythm To Their Modular – On Sale Now For $29!
At ANR we’re big fans of quality, boutique brands like Vermona (see our recent Vermona PERfourMER MKII review). Along with some fantastic-sounding synths, drum synths, and effects, the German company offers also some interesting Eurorack modules. One of them, Random Rhythm, a dual-channel random generator specialized in producing beat structures…
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Free Rare and Vintage Drum Machines Sounds for UNO Drum From IK Multimedia!
Great news for UNO Drum users! The compact IK Multimedia drum synth just got a curated collection of rare and vintage drum sounds spanning the history of drum machines, all of this for FREE! The collection is called Drum Anthology Libraries for UNO Drum, and it features a selection of…
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XLN Audio XO Review – The Smart Nebula For Your Drum Samples
XLN Audio have got adventurous with their latest creation – a drum sample library and kit construction software that uses the processing power of our computers to creatively display ALL your drum samples as a nebula of samples, and enable quick switching between sounds, and shaping thereof, to speed up…
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Akai Announce Splice Support For Force, MPC Live & MPC X
Akai has some great news for quality sample pack users: they just announced the immediate availability of Splice integration in their standalone machines (the recently released Force, and the ‘modern beatmaker classics’ MPC Live and MPC X); a pivotal series of updates that offer users immediate wi-fi access to their…