Speaking of which, the 300-page manual is hardly a light read, but the brief introductory video is a good start. Unfortunately, the app as a whole lacks cohesion, and isn't as good in practice as it is on paper. Overall, the effects are of a good standard. There's a slick-looking mastering unit too, but it lacks proper gain-staging. Producer Edition can also use VST instruments and effects.Ī virtual mixer sets levels and applies effects - all the processors you'd expect are here, as is a guitar amp sim. Unlike the other instruments, which have built-in pattern editing, Revolta 2 and Vita are driven by MIDI and edited via a piano roll. These ones sound great, though - how annoying that the weak-sounding LiViD can't drive these cracking kits. It has lots of presets and sounds very good.įinally, there's the excellent-sounding Vita ROMpler, with 'real' instrument sounds such as guitars, pianos, brass, strings, and - yes! - more drums.
Revolta 2 is new for Producer edition and is a rather impressive virtual analogue synth with a mod matrix, step sequencer, dual effects with 11 effects types, and a slick interface. Atmos, meanwhile, is a sound effects generator - the Hiphop preset sports a knob to crank up the level of 'Gunfight'. Three of the supplied instruments are dedicated to percussion: LiViD is a virtual drummer that can play, say, a verse part in a rock style Beatbox has a grid editor and over 30 kits and Robota is a solid, 909-on-steroids effort.ĭrum n Bass offers sampled drum loops and synthetic bass - you can tweak the playback order of the beats, but it's a bit awkward to use.
They didn't always fire right on the beat, and we had trouble using MIDI clips. We didn't have as much luck with the Live Pads, though, which play clips that aren't in the arrangement. Changes are synced the beat, and you can also program it to play parts in a specified order, which is handy for trying out ideas. You map ranges in your song to QWERTY/MIDI keys and trigger them for a performance.
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