it’s so easy to use I’m second guessing it lol, but it sounds good
Chop Beast looks tempting
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I ended up purchasing the bundle a few days ago. Was initially impressed by their well designed, minimal ui. All of their controls and functions are up front and laid out in a logical way, which makes them inviting to tweak and easy to understand. They feel a lot like effects pedals in this way.
Unfortunately though, I found all three plugins to be a little too niche for my taste and couldn’t find a use for them in my music. I think they might work well for someone who makes abstract ambient music, who wants tools that can add movement and texture to their drones. I guess the demos tell you everything- these plugins are for fucking up a signal, making coherent music sound less coherent. None of them have lfos that you can sync or retrigger, and thats probably intentional. You’re supposed to embrace the chaos, and I already have other methods for doing that.
Update: I contacted K-Devices to see if I could cancel my order and they quickly responded and gave me a refund, without any questions. They seem like a pretty cool company. I definitely want to support them if some of their other plugins ever go on sale. TTAP and TATAT look pretty sweet.
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thanks for the insight, you’re not the first person I’ve heard say they were cool devs…
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can you mute any slices though?
looks like it’s on sale for $20 bucks right now
This seems cool -
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Not yet. Waiting for that update to happen.
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I know this is creative software for mangling samples, but personally i find it very satisfying to do it manually just in daw, drop some effects on them, filters… Chop here chop there.
There is a sense of accomplishment when done right.
Just exported one sketch from digitakt, where i already messed with samples, into Live, and thinking of way how to have more fun there
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another one… free
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surprised Mosaic doesn’t have pitch detection… boo
For sure, Digitakt is still the don for the intentional part imho. But I feel like there’s a place for both. Sometimes working intentionally and sometimes working with tools that spit out unexpected things and react intentionally to.
Seems like there’s a lot of action around concatenative synthesis at the moment, don’t think coalescence ha been mentioned yet, but I like it a lot:
https://dillonbastan.com/store/maxforlive/index.php?product=coalescence
For me, I feel like these kinds of tools have a cycle where initially I’ll throw a bunch of stuff at them and get interesting results, but it takes a lot of time to get to the point of actually using them beyond that level. For the longest time I was only using coalescence to auto-chop long recordings, but even if it just did that it’d be worth it.
The yraki thing seems to be somewhere in between that and Playbox in Kontakt. Been meaning to load some of my own samples to that and see how it goes, just don’t really love the Kontakt interface for much beyond rompler use though.
Also really enjoying Kentaro Simplos and Helisert this week, still very much at the stage of just throwing them at stuff and seeing what comes out, but they are a lot of fun.
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Heads up… rando update
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Does anyone know emails of devs who work on plugins?
Please post here if you know any, or PM me if it’s more appropriate.
There’s a certain sampling workflow that is just amazing, but can’t be found in software at the moment. I’m going to email as many devs as possible to politely ask if they’re interested in it.
Where can this workflow be currently found?
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As far as I know, only on the KP3 (Kaoss Pad).
It’s simple but incredible. Basically, you hit the sample button, it records your sample, say for instance you record 8 bars.
Then you have 8 buttons at the top, they light up. You press the buttons to turn them on/off. Any buttons that are off, the rest of the sample plays appended.
So if you wanted to hear just the last 4 bars, you’d light up buttons 5,6,7,8
If you wanted to hear it a bit different, you could light up 1, 3,5,7 and you’d hear the new sequence of bars as if you’d cut it up and pasted it together like that.
It’s basically a really quick and simple way of remixing/rearranging a sample as you jam.
I’ve yet to find it in software. I do have a KP3 in my setup and can route stuff to it, but really I want 16 so I can have it on every track 
I have a kp3 too and understand what you’re talking about… it’s been a while but I wonder if serato can do this and also if egoist by sugar bytes can do it?
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Finally, someone gets it! It’s a great feature!
Not 100% sure but I think it can’t do it. I did try one a while ago… think it was Sugar Bytes. It almost worked, but bizarrely you couldn’t map the button, you had to click with the mouse, so no good.
I’ll have a look, thanks. If not, surely someone can do it… so many great devs out there!
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