Fairly Confusing Waveforms Beat Assembler KONTAKT
09 DECEMBER 2015 | FREEBIE | KONTAKT | 10 MB
This experiment took me a while to complete and it made me scratch my head pretty hard a couple of times. I wanted a drum machine in Kontakt, that wouldn't be bound to 4/4 signature and standard time grid. Also I wanted to break with table based patterns and have visual presentation more like in a DAW. Beat Assembler does that and more. It's a drum machine with sequencer, which can generate automatic program according to preset scheme and set of parameters. It creates a master pattern which then is being fit into a time-frame, matching current tempo and time signature. The pattern can be quantized to defined grid, which can use a range of unusual note fractions, like 1/5 or 6/11, everything being visualized on the fly.
The machine also lets you define time signature manually, so you're not limited to 4/4 in standalone mode, furthermore allowing some irrational settings like 4/3 or 5/7. So, if you like to experiment with strange percussion patterns, you may enjoy this one.
Additional features include:
four voice groups with automated distribution, where you can set effects and modulation parameters for each group;
manual sequence editor, so you can move notes around the grid;
note recorder, so you can play a pattern by keyboard and then quantize it inside out.