If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. Use those as starting points.Just my 2.We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. I would mix neon drive with lazer dice or golden kingdom. If taylor swift said hey I will pay to do a track for me, but I want little trap in it mix with pop. If you had a client who wanted that 80's feel I would use circuit halo mixed with arturia synths. If you have grey forge, electric vice, lucid mission or neon drive you have a starting point. Because to me producing genre's your not familiar with you need the right sounds. Let's say you have three different projects your working on, I don't have time to do all that research etc. I'm not sure I would want to have to search for dance drums or research different companies that make sounds for that particular genre. For example if a techno/pop artist approached you about producing an album and they want the latest trends and sounds and you have no expansions. Uninstall all the expansions and do not use them. If you get an artist that's say hey I want a reggae/dancehall I go carribean current, a dance/pop artist want's something from you I can go to grey forge/electric vice, a trap artist golden kingdom/lazer dice, or west coast influenced song marble rims. But I think for the producer who wants to make songs with artist and try to get placements it opens them up to doing different kinds of music. Then maybe you just use certain sounds for the genre you like to produce. If you make music for yourself and don't have any plans to actually record with artist. I think for the producers that buy them it saves time for looking for certain sounds for different genre's and keeps you up to date on the latest sounds. If I found 75 % of the expansions unusable I would not continue to buy them personally. Some of the producers who have done the expansions geared toward hip hop are far from lazy. Would love to see the expansions get back to 16 pads = 16 unique one-shot sounds.Ĭlick to expand.The expansions to me give a variety of sounds to work with and a source of inspiration to.
There's just zero context in which it's useful to have a full guitar-lick riff playing back inside my song, or a full soul piano riff, etc. I think they exist for incredibly lazy 'producers' who just want to throw together tunes without pushing themselves (or lack the ability in the first place). And yeah, I know, you can slice 'em up to rearrange etc blah blah but I really don't think that is why they exist. You only get 16 sounds per kit to begin with, and lately the last 4 to 6 are totally wasted on these canned melodic phrases that I simply cannot imagine any use for whatsoever. My primary issue, which seems to be happening more and more with the newer expansions, is the totally absurd "riff on a pad" approach. I've found usable stuff and I've found crap among all the expansions I've bought (which is about 75% of them). they have their strengths and weaknesses, kit by kit, sound by sound. The sample I begin with is definitely not what I end up with in the finished product.įor me it's not quite as simple as one pack being good, another bad. Maschine 2's ability to automate Kontakt parameters (via modualtion) is another really cool thing for pushing the most out of Evolve and Damage. I'd love to get my own guitar playing in there to twist around. *OFF TOPIC* - I'd love to figure out if I can import samples INTO Kontakt for use in Damage or Evolve. It's way cool that I don't have to weigh down my processor with additional VST's with all of the built-in tweakability the Heavyocity Kontakt stuff has.
I'm making up new stuff with Damage and the Evolve series every day. Actually, I bought Komplete Ultimate to go with my Maschine Studio a few weeks ago, and I immediately gravitated right to the Heavyocity stuff.
It saves a lot of processor time because you don't have to pile on delay, distortion, compression, and reverb - they're built in and totally tweak-able. I love twisting stuff around and Damage is actually built for doing that. In no particular order, well the order in which I purchased 'em anyway:ģ.) Drop Squad (*LOL* just bought it yesterday - and it's a lot of fun)