#DRUMSPILLAGE 2 REVIEW FOR MAC#
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Later on, when you view the other screens and their dense clusters of knobs, youвЂ™ll look back on this page with affection. Essentially, itвЂ™s a row of friendly sliders for making fast, sweeping, instantly?visible changes. This changes dynamically as you click the options: Easy, Pads, Mixer, Mod/FX and Manager.ДЄ click on вЂEasyвЂ™ reveals a simplified means of tweaking your chosen drum. First, letвЂ™s concentrate on the main part of the display. WeвЂ™ll be looking at these and at the sequencer a little later. The pads represent instruments available to each kit, while the sequencerвЂ™s eight buttons activate patterns within the current Preset. The display is divided into regions, with an upper area for bank and preset selection the lower half is occupied by three columns of eight pads and the sequencer grid. It would, admittedly, be an impressive (not to mention huge) hardware controller that had a knob for everything Punch offers. You can only make this selection by mouse - one negative point in an otherwise extensive MIDI remote implementation. Assuming вЂDyn SelectвЂ™ mode is active, you can click anywhere on the pad, otherwise you have to click the small blue LED, which is a bit of a subtle distinction in practice. In all editing operations, you first select the drum to be edited by a click on its pad. Punch has a neat and ordered appearance based around a вЂbrushed metalвЂ™ panel with rendered knobs and subtle turquoise shading.ДЇunctionality mostly trumps cosmetics, although reading the positions of those rendered knobs wasnвЂ™t always easy. ItвЂ™s so large it overflows my MacвЂ™s chosen resolution (1280 x 800), but fortunately I was content with the standard size. One of the additions was a вЂbig screenвЂ™ mode, which expands Punch to a whopping 40 percent above the standard size.

#DRUMSPILLAGE 2 REVIEW FOR MAC#

This includes several minor enhancements and bug fixes, plus support for Mac Lion (OS 10.7). The version under the spotlight here is the second revision, 1.0.2.

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Having entered the serial number, itвЂ™s worth going straight to RobвЂ™s web site, where you can register and check for updates. Having downloaded the version(s) required (or, if you have the boxed edition, popped the DVD into the drive) installation proceeds uneventfully. IвЂ™ve never seen this as a major issue - an instrument of this type complements rather than replaces a DAW. It doesnвЂ™t run stand?alone but as a VST, AU or RTAS plug?in.

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Punch is available in two separate versions suitable for 32? or 64?bit Mac or PC hosts. Not that anyone will complain when they discover that classic and contemporary drum tones are equally well represented. This is no ordinary drum machine slavishly regurgitating RolandвЂ™s past glories. But itвЂ™s when you dig in and discover how extensively tailorable they are that the penny drops.

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In common with other instruments produced in conjunction with software developer Jon Ayres, Punch arrives stocked with Rob Papen sounds to add polish to your productions. With sample playback, effects and a pattern sequencer too, this is one Punch that could easily sneak under your guard. The latest virtual instrument to emerge from Rob PapenвЂ™s stable is Punch, a drum machine that places synthesis and sound?design at the top of its priority list. Then people could really put it through the ringer.Can Rob PapenвЂ™s new virtual instrument deliver the knockout blow? I'd really like to see mini-spillage re-released as a drum kick replacer, more robust in parameters, more stable, while dropping synthesis for wood block, snare etc. If I recall, the native plugins, simpler and ableton's drum rack both placed less CPU burden, and subsequently less latency on my sessions than did mini-spillage.

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It is meant to give you a sound check to the synthesis engine, and to discern whether you really want the full kit.ДЄnother reason to go synth over sample is improved responsiveness and decreased CPU and RAM overhead of your sessions. That's why it's a bit difficult for me to evaluate its final price tag should you wish to get the full version. This mini version leans more on the retro sound to begin with, and most likely will not replace your favorite kit. For anyone who does not want to enter the 'sample race', buying and collecting libraries willy-nilly, synthesis offers you another strategy, keeping firm grip on the qualitative decisions you make as a musician/orchestrator. Minispillage is a plug-in instrument audio unit or VSTi, that uses synthesized percussion and attacks. This admittedly is an impression based on incomplete information, as I didn't put my hands on the full version.

Drumspillage 2 review