Punk Labs has announced the release of a new virtual instrument that simulates drums being recorded, played back, and chopped. OneTrick Urchin is a hybrid drum synthesizer instrument that models gritty lo-fi beats without sampling.
It’s powered by a combination of spectral and physical modeling which is run through effects and filters designed to give a saturated vintage feel. You can control the “playback speed” that the drums were “sampled” at on the fly with the pitch wheel, which might just be a first.
We’ve built in a preset browser with editing, tagging, and searching, and included 20 factory presets to get you started.
OneTrick Urchin features
- Preset browser with tags and editing.
- 20 factory preset kits.
- Multi-out or stereo.
- Vinyl or tape noise and saturation.
- Realtime “playback speed” of synthesized media.
- Studio reverb.
- Nondestructive modulation (CLAP only).
- All parameters are automatable.
- No telemetry or analytics.
- No DRM.
- Open source to inspect, learn from, adapt, and improve.
Priced $79 USD, the plugin is available in VST3, AU and CLAP formats for Windows, Mac and Linux. The source code is available under the GPLv3 for anyone to inspect, adapt and learn from.
More information: Punk Labs
