Sound Dust has announced the release of Modular Chaos Engine #2 – Evolved, two instrument libraries for Native Instruments Kontakt.
For the past 10 years or so I’ve always carried some kind of portable recording device and a pair of OKM in ear microphones around with me and kept a kind of aural diary of great sounding things and great sounding places. I’ve made literally gazillions of recordings in places all over this side of the world, and like most diaries these recordings have mainly been sitting in dark cupboards waiting for someone to rediscover them…
The Modular Chaos Engine is the perfect repository for 785 of them. I’ve selected the most usefully percussive, clangy, bangy, thumpy, boomy, itchy, scratchy, thwacky and whacky, added a really powerful sequencing engine and made a “found sound” drum machine.
Modular Chaos Engine #1 – Found features
- 785 individual samples ( including up to 20 variations of each sound) mapped to 12 sample engines from C1 upwards.
- 160mb download.
- 12 complex 12 track sequencers triggered from keys C0 and above (adjustable).
- The Chaos button for instant randomisation.
- The Order button for an instant return to normality.
- Comprehensive editing with quick edit system for control of all sounds together, or indivual editing of tune, time, low pass filter, high pass filter, attack, decay and volume.
- Individual per engine articulation controls.
- Separate sequence tracks for sound selection, accent, decay, pan and tuning per note.
- Chaotic “looper” control with 32 looping algorithms.
- All controls midi learnable.
- Inbuilt instruction manual.
“Modular Chaos Engine #2 – Evolved” features a fully electronic instrument.
Its probably no secret that this time i’ve exploited the strange and rather wonderful qualities of Dave Smiths’ criminally underated analog/digital masterpiece the Evolver. I LOVE this underdog synth because it has so much wonky personality and a wonderful architecture that can produce some really great sounds….usually of a slightly boisterous nature.
So, for this Chaos Engine there are up to 127 different sounds/articulations per key which are very loosely mapped across the keys from from low kick drum type sounds through snappy snare type sounds up to more clicky, rattly hats and then the mildly melodic sounds up near the top end of the key range.
Modular Chaos Engine #2 – Evolved features
- 1106 individual samples ( including up to 20 variations of each sound) mapped to 12 sample engines from C1 upwards.
- 283mb download.
- 12 complex 12 track sequencers triggered from keys C0 and above (adjustable).
- The Chaos button for instant randomisation.
- The Order button for an instant return to normality.
- Comprehensive editing with quick edit system for control of all sounds together, or indivual editing of tune, time, low pass filter, high pass filter, attack, decay and volume.
- Individual per engine articulation controls.
- Separate sequence tracks for sound selection, accent, decay, pan and tuning per note.
- Chaotic “looper” control with 32 looping algorithms.
- All controls midi learnable.
- Inbuilt instruction manual.
The sample libraries are available for purchase for £20 GBP each, or bundled for £35 GBP.
More information: Sound Dust
