Native Instruments – The Mouth

I’m writing as I’m watching… thoughts in motion…

Hmm… yet another “user-friendly” instrument farted out by NI. OK, so it’s a sort of a vocoder…? Yet another vocoder… sounds mildly functional. You could use this in the Reaktor player, but the real bonus would be in looking under the hood in Reaktor itself…

I dig vocoders, but there are so many out there… to really make it sound good, you (read: I) need a lot of knob-twiddling to make it sound good. You want something done right, yea?l

I’m guessing they’re pricing this around $79 – $99.

OK – the arpeggiator could add some interesting parallel processing. Always nice to get some audio –> synth action going on after the fact. But it sounds about as reliable is the tracking is capable of …

Man. They’re really dragging their heels with respect to Reaktor development… Procrastinators!

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Squarepusher presents – Shobaleader One – d’Demonstrator

New release out 18/9th of October 2010.

Very good. Now, check out this mashup:

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Bed Intruder [8 Bit arrangement]

I’ve completed my own cover of Auto-tune the News‘ “Bed Intruder! It’s a chiptune arrangment, as you can… see? Well.. hear, at least. I think it’s pretty good.

The original: (don’t forget to do your own cover!)

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