Reid Rosefelt

You can get Gadget 2 at the Korg Shop HERE Four versions for desktop: Gadget for Mac $199 intro price, regular price will be $199 after March 31st. Gadget Plugins Only Mac/PC $149 ($199) Gadget Upgrade for Mac $99.99 Gadget LE for Mac Free Some serious disappointments for PC people. Not all of the gadgets are available at launch and none of them have NKS yet. Mac Gadget has had NKS for awhile. These will be added in future upgrades. ? You really have to dig through their site to find this information, but it's HERE if you scroll down to the bottom of the page. 4 new gadgets: Memphis Semi-Modular Analogue Synthesizer (like MS-20/10) Pompei 6 Voice Analog Synth (like Polysix ) Taipei (MIDI-Out Control Module) Durban (Bass Effect Processor) Plus two more new gadgets coming soon These join Gadget versions of Korg classics like the M1, Wavestation, Arp Odyssey, Mono/Poly, etc. iOS users will see a number of changes to the user interface and new features like tempo change, fade in/fade out, and four new fx. The long requested ability to rename tracks is finally here. And of course the ability to control iOS and hardware synths with the MIDI out is a big deal. More info on Gadget HERE NOTE: the first comments below are from when I put this up pre-release a few weeks ago.

For those of you who use Groove Agent, you know that it allows you to control the main pattern of the acoustic drums with an XY pad. This is what they call "styles." One parameter is "Complexity," which makes the pattern more "complex" when you move it to the right; volume is up and down. So you can get very realistic results that respond in real time to your song. Your DAW records all these movements as automation. This only works on the main acoustic drum set. The other agents, except for the Percussion agent, use MIDI. The percussion kit works like the acoustic style, but has more power. You control the complexity and intensity of each instrument in your percussion kit separately. So, for example, you can turn your shaker or bongos on and off, change the patterns or volume as the song is playing. There is even a random button where it does a bit of that for you. All of this recorded in automation, which results in a lot of lanes! You can also take one of your settings and save it on a pad. You can buy a great highly multi-sampled drum kit (one of the main features of the full program) now for $40 with this sale. But you can only get the percussion agent if you upgrade to the full program. It's one of my favorite things about the program. I hope that Steinberg will come out with more percussion modules in the future, like African, Middle Eastern, Indian, etc. @Greg The MIDI patterns can be found by clicking the folder icon on the right side, underneath the Agents. Each title found there loads up 24 patterns: 8 main, 8 fills, 4 intros, and 4 endings.

I wrote in detail about this here

Get it HERE Use Code GROOVESETS19 at checkout Ends on 1/30/19 Acoustic Expansions: Drum Sets, Multiple Mics, Styles, MIDI Simon Phillips Jazz Drums played with sticks & brushes, 20 styles, 560 MIDI files, 7.6 GB - $40 Simon Phillips Studio Drums includes 14 styles, MIDI grooves, 6 GB $40 Metro Heights Indie Rock, 21 styles, MIDI grooves, 5.8 GB $30 Nashville 21 styles, 7 GB $30 The Songwriter's Drums & Rhythms Acoustic Drum Kit played with sticks & hot rods. 20 styles for folk, country, soft rock, and indie pop $30 Styles: 10 in each - includes mixer presets $12.50 Alternative Essentials 80s Alt-rock Beat Essentials British Beat Blues Essentials Funk Essentials Fusion Essentials Jazz Essentials Metal Essentials Modern Jazz Essentials Pop Essentials Rock and Roll Essentials Songwriter Essentials Beat Expansions: (Drum kits and MIDI, $20) Future Electronica (30 drum kits, 240 patterns) Colliding Worlds (World Percussion, industrial, traffic, etc. by Simon Stockhausen, 240 patterns) Metronomic Cinema (acoustic and electronic, intended for movie scores, 30 percussion kits) Neuro Mindset (drum & bass, dubstep, 30 electronic drum sets, 353 patterns) Future Past Perfect (NY House, Future House, 33 drum kits, hundreds of grooves) More info on the expansions HERE FYI, Steinberg provides free demo downloads for many of these. For me, what makes Groove Agent unique is the styles. They let you do something beyond any other drum program I'm aware of. To my ears, the Simon Phillips Jazz expansion sounds the best, both in the playing and the sound of the kit. It has brushes and 20 styles. If you like brushes, you have to hear the demos. I'm going to demo the Studio Drums. It only has 14 styles, though. Aside from those two, IMHO the best deals in this offer are the Metro Heights, Nashville, and Songwriter's Acoustic Expansions. They offer as many styes as two Styles expansions ($25) and for $5 more you get a drum set. On the basis of quantity of patterns, the Beat Expansions compare very well to the kinds of expansions you get from Toontrack and Addictive Drums. I can't speak to their quality. But again, they are sounds and MIDI patterns, not styles.

I like it. It has a new UI plus a lot of new instruments from PrecisionSounds. At least the samples come from there. I'm not sure which ones, but I'm guessing stuff like Bulgarian Tupans, Nordic Upright Piano, Finnish Concert Kantale, Indian Santur, Hungarian Cymbalum, Lyra, might be the ones. Most of the instruments have multiple articulations and sound pretty good. It's very easy to find stuff because it's organized both by Region and types of instruments. There's a consistent, easy to use UI, As one would expect for such a big library, the quality of the instruments varies a lot. I really like the many accordions and string instruments. It takes quite a bit of time to explore it as it is such a huge library. There are a lot of loops too, integrated into something they call the Travelers section, which allows you to combine different loops from various cultures, like Indian Traveler, Middle Eastern Traveler, African Traveler, etc. I see it as a way to explore the sounds of world music and maybe incorporate unusual sounds into all sorts of musical styles. If there's something I start to play a lot, then I usually end up buying a dedicated library to get something more realistic. During Black Friday, I got EthnoWorld (instruments) for $150. I would recommend it before World Suite. But I'm happy to have World Suite too, because there are many instruments that WS has that EW doesn't have. I've gotten a lot of enjoyment out of WS and it's well worth the money I paid for it, which was a lot more than this.