When Roland released the new 404 in the fall of 2021, we were still at the end of the pandemic fog, where any new music hardware automatically became a monetary success. Honestly, who took it for anything other than a money grab? I remember how pissed off I was when I realized that my new… Continue reading Roland take SP-404 beyond sampling
Kinetic Metal by Native Instruments
Kinetic Metal is a virtual instrument released by Native Instruments for their Kontakt sample player in 2013. It consists of 211 patches (“instruments”) based on 1751 samples and is 1.55 GB in size. NI describes the product as: The focus of KINETIC METAL lies on high-quality metallic sounds and textures that can be modulated and… Continue reading Kinetic Metal by Native Instruments