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A Sonic and Visual introduction to my new set of patches "Toxic FM8" that are available for purchase from www.pluginguru.com and www.SoundsToSample.com

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Thursday, 03 May 2012 00:44

Toxic for NI FM8

 71 High Octane inspired patches for FM8 of the likes you've never heard before...... Aggressive | Expressive!

From Insane Wobbles, Pitch Drops, Squelches and Shortys to ÜBER dark dub basses with rhythmic motion, this is a library like NOTHING that has come before it.

FM8 is considered one of the toughest synthesizers to program and in his second library, John "Skippy" Lehmkuhl has studied closely many of the inspiring sounds coming from todays music and injected them into FM8 with tricks galore to make getting Mind Blowing dance tracks will help define you as a unique new artist.
Many people believe that getting killer growls and bass drops with FM8 requires both FM8, a mountain of effects and days of programming automation into your sequencer - NOT TRUE! Play a Toxic patch and move the Modulation Wheel and listen to the Jaw Dropping Growls, Groans, Squelches and other insane sounds that you can simply produce in REAL-TIME. In fact, if you don't use the Modulation wheel on these patches - they sound BORING because you have to perform them to get the sound to come alive!!
On top of this groundbreaking achievement, you ALSO have 4 different patches in EACH PATCH with the Morph Pad (a unique and powerful tool in FM8 few people have discovered). Play the sound, move the modulation wheel AND move the Morph Pad and now you have sounds like NO ONE has ever heard before.
The 1+ HOUR video tutorial shows EVERYTHING on making these types of Toxic sounds as well as tips and tricks for getting NEW sounds from ANY PATCH you have for FM8. A MUST Watch tutorial that will require multiple viewings for everything to sink in!
NOTE: FM8 VERSION 1.2.0 or LATER required to play these patches.
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The 2nd part of my overview of Absynth 5. So awesome that Brian Clevinger - the creator of Absynth joined me for this video.

Follow along on a fun adventure with Skippy to make a Complex Tempo Sync'd Motion Synth Pad in Native Instruments MASSIVE !!

Friday, 09 December 2011 02:51

Evil Razor for NI Razor

 Aggressive, Evil, Filthy and yet..... truly Beautiful


Electronic mayhem is guaranteed in this latest patch library featuring 72 filthy patches for the montrous Razor, spanning everything from dubstep to dark techno - combined with a 42 minute video tutorial that shares the secrets of how to become a Razor specialist.

Razor uses a unique 320 OSC 'Sine Bank' sound generator in Reaktor which makes it sound totally unique compared to everything else. Nothing can make the sounds Razor can - and in this pack we push Razor to its limits for some of the darkest and most aggressive patches imaginable!

The mod wheel has been set up for every patch to up the destruction ante.

In the 45-min video, another trick is revealed that many patches utilize for even MORE real-time sonic insanity... So watch the video closely to learn about this ability that in not even possible with most Plug-ins!

NOTE: If you're using the free reactor player to play Razor, then you probably know that you can’t save your own patches - so that makes getting more patches for Razor even more important!!

Published in Products
Thursday, 08 December 2011 23:47

FM8 Power Review Part 1: Interface

Part 1 of PlugInGuru's Power Review for Native Instruments FM8. This review is called "Overview and Browser set-up for Native Instruments FM8".

Wednesday, 07 December 2011 21:10

Native Instrument Massive

133 Mind-numbing patches for one of the most popular soft  synths on the market!  Throbbing basslines, booming subs and insane bass wobbles  live beside beautiful bells, Über-flexible bpm-synced pulsing synth  patches, the warmest lush pads you've ever heard Massive produce,  aggressive leads, epic unison synth  patches, twisted SFX and even guitar, harp, keyboard and wind patches.

What REALLY sets a PlugInGuru Power Pack apart from any other patch library is the depth of programming applied to each patch. EVERY patch has comments, is categoriezed and most importantly, ALL 8 real-time performance knobs are assigned to parameters to modify the patch to suit your needs. We give YOU the steering wheel to warp these patches for unrivaled creative control in a live or studio environment!  Massive is NOT sample-based so by adjusting knobs with creative names like MONSTER, Dirt, Color, Chord, Sizzle and Freakt, (along with more typical OSC1 Vol,  Cutoff, Reso, Attk, Decay, Release etc)  - thousands upon thousands of radically different patch variations are waiting to be discovered by YOU!

If you're looking to see what Massive can truly sound like, then the Massive Power Pack is THE place to start.

Published in Products
Friday, 18 November 2011 16:18

Native Instruments FM8

Super Charged Inspiration for a Classic Sonic Powerhorse

  • Huge booming basses (12+ Killer Basses)
  • Pristine Beautiful Bells
  • "BPM" Tempo Sync'd Patches
  • Lush Bright and Warm Pads
  • Unique Lead Synth patches
  • 6 OSC Analog Patches (One patch uses 4 note unison for 24 OSC on 1 note!)
  • SFX
  • Very nice DX-7 tine electric piano patch - Factory voicing didn't even include an electric piano like this !!
  • The Morph pad is programmed to the Max - all 4 corners are set to TOTALLY DIFFERENT (useful) Variations - so each patch has literally hundreds of variations depending on where you move the morph pad... So while this library has 62 patches, by using the Morph pad there are many many more possible sounds these patches can produce. Every patch also has a totally customized Arpeggiator pattern, performance notes in the Comment section as well as the Modulation Wheel is programmed on EVERY program. Not even Native Instruments factory voicing did this!

FM8 is BEGGING to play these sounds.. so FEED YOUR PLUG-IN!

Published in Products
Friday, 18 November 2011 16:18

Native Instruments Absynth 5

My goal with this library was simply to re-invent Absynth 5 into a thundering virtual synth capable of epic bassline wobbles, ferocious synth leads, wild FX, twisted vocalisers and more. Absynth 5 made its name as the ultimate plug-in for spaced-out ambient pads and complex motion sci-fi patches but I've always known that Absynth is capable of FAR MORE than the factory patches show ya.

So I worked very hard at turning Absynth 5 into an unstoppable mainroom monster of a synth packed with basses, leads, pads, pulses, pianos, bells, drums, vox and wind patches. If you didn't think Absynth could be used as the primary "axe" in a track, you'll be in for some plesant surprises - the power of Absynth as a pad/motion machine can easily be applied to killer leads, basses and many other sounds as this library will show you....

Not only is every patch programmed with cutting-edge dance music in mind, the performance sliders have been programmed to allow you to simply customise each patch without having to get deep inside Absynth's powerful underbelly - start moving sliders and tweak the sound to suit the track you are working on.

 

This Power Pack also comes with 29+ MB of samples (some of me yelling and sounding rather tortued) and a Read Me PDF that shows where the 2 folders should be installed - these patches and sampless are compatible with both PC & Mac based computers.

Give your productions some new patches that sound totally unique thanks to Absynth's mind blowing synthesis Engine!
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