Sunday, October 10, 2010

Software Reviews Part 2

Kicklab XL - Free (6/10)
Kicklab XL (a free version of Kicklab XXL) promises the ability to generate your own kick sounds, which it delivers on. You can make some pretty nice electronic kick samples to fatten up your old kick sounds or to use on their own. It's pretty limited, but it does a good job at what it does.
Link:
http://www.amvst.com/node/17


Successes
-Gives you the ability to generate customizable kick sounds.
-Free

Failures
-Somewhat CPU intensive for just generating a single kick sound.
-The pitch of the kick doesn't change along with midi input.
-Stupid preview mode.

13 comments:

  1. oh wow thanks... will look into this if i ever start mixing

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  2. Same here bro. Maybe I'll do some VDJ tutorials later down the road.

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  3. Stupid preview mode? Wha..?
    I don't think I ever bothered with drum-sound generators. I was all about the samples.

    I messed around with VDJ, seemed like it was pretty fun on the fly.

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  4. The preview mode plays back the sound after ever adjustment, which I usually do automatically with my midi keyboard, so they overlap. It's just a bit annoying until you disable it.

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  5. this seems to be a pretty innovative thing...

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  6. Waiting for your next posts...this post is very informative :)

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  7. meh, let the haters hate. Good stuff.

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