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Matt Mower has released Reichatron, a phase shifting looper for Native Instruments Reaktor.

Reichatron is a sample playing instrument that grew out of my desire to experiment with phase-shifted looping (a la Steve Reichʼs early works ʻItʼs Gonna Rainʼ and ʻPiano Phaseʼ) and as an homage to Metaphysical Function which is, I think, one of the most interesting Reaktor ensembles.

Reichatron allows you to mix together the phase-shifted blending of two samples and then modulate that mixture using a block of six effects that can be independently controlled. Reichatron also offers stochastic control of the effects block and sample selection. You can take as much, or as little, control over how the sound evolves over time as you like.

The Reichatron ensemble comes with 500+ MB of original material including samples from rekkerd.org and Rhythm Lab/Cyberworm.

Reichatron is available to download from the Native Instrument Reaktor User Library.

Here’s a sample of Matt blending the phase shifting of different guitar parts before feeding them to the effects section.

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More information: Matt Mower / Reichatron

I regularly post reviews on rekkerd.org. To avoid having to write the same disclaimer for every review I decided to dedicate a page to it.

rekkerd.org review disclaimer

• I am not a professional reviewer/musician/sound designer/etc.
  I make music in my spare time, using pretty basic tools. My reviews reflect this situation.
  If I fail to cover something specific you would like to know about, just let me know through email or leave a comment on the review and I’ll try to answer you best I can.

• Most reviewed products are NFR’s.
  Since I welcome developers to submit products for review it should not come as a surprise that I did not actually pay for many of the products reviewed on rekkerd.org. These so-called NFR (not for resale) items are provided by the developer at no cost. I occasionally also use demo versions to review a product. Since it is easy to like something you don’t pay for I take price into consideration in order to properly value the product. I will not tell you something is great if I think it is in fact not that great at all. I give my honest opinion.

• My opinion is just that, an opinion.
  I like my coffee black. You on the other hand might like some milk and sugar with your coffee (I used to…), or even prefer tea. Check products for yourself to see if you agree with my review, and please share with me and other rekkerd.org readers what you think.

2009 has been a great year for me (becoming a dad) and I hope it was great for you too.

Somehow I managed to get close to 3,000 posts out to you, bringing the latest news in audio software, samples and sound libraries, some reviews, and other random stuff.

I would like the thank you all for supporting rekkerd.org with your useful comments, suggestions, corrections & donations, and just for visiting. I hope you will continue to enjoy rekkerd.org in 2010.

A happy new year to you all, may it be a musical one!

Cheers,
Ronnie

Beats, basslines, synth melodies… This latest rekkerd.org sample pack has them all.

Mixed bag volume 2 features 26 samples, in 24bit/44kHz stereo wav format.

The download is about 100MB, so I just dropped the samples in Ableton Live and put together a quick demo in case you want to hear what type of samples are included before you download them.

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Note: the files have been normalized to 0dB peak. You may want to audition the samples at a moderate volume as some samples are considerably louder than others.

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rekkerd mixed bag volume 2 is released under the Creative Commons BY license.
If you really enjoy these samples you can show your appreciation by donating here. Thanks!

Check the loops & samples page for more downloads.

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de la Mancha has announced the release of ballistic, a 15 slot drum sample player designed to get you making beats quickly without a million parameters to adjust.

de la Mancha ballistic – the little brother to erratic2

Simple but effective, it boasts flexible midi triggers, sample audition, sample tuning, 4 choke groups, mute/solo options, sample reverse, sample normalisation, a lofi option and several kits of samples donated by many generous sample providers such as Loopmasters, Zero-G, Digital-Redux, Goldbaby, Soniccouture, Real Music Media, Ronnie @ Rekkerd, sink, polyslax and bedroom producers

Even better, all proceeds of sales of ballistic will be donated to Cancer Research UK, helping them in their aim of beating cancer.

ballistic features

• Plays any 16, 24 or 32 bit stereo / mono WAV files from RAM for low CPU.
• 15 sample slots, each triggered by user-definable midi note.
• 4 choke groups, each slot can be assigned to a group and be cut by a group.
• Each sample can be tuned in tenths of semitones.
• Mute and solo for each sample.
• Volume and panning per sample.
• Sample reverse.
• Sample slot normalisation.
• Selectable mono/stereo.
• Lo-fi option.
• Sample audition button.
• Multi-out capable, 15 stereo outputs for routing to individual mixer channels in your host.
• 637 samples (76 MB) covering acoustic kits, vintage electronic, analogue synth, dubstep, hiphop, breakbeat, 8-bit, glitch, jazz and esoteric noises.
• Samples donated by Loopmasters, Zero-G, Digital-Redux, Goldbaby, Soniccouture, Real Music Media, Ronnie @ Rekkerd, sink, polyslax and bedroom producers.
• 21 presets covering various kits.

Ballistic is available a VST instrument for Windows PC for $10 USD. All money received from sales of ballistic will be donated to Cancer Research UK.

Visit de la Mancha for more information.