Unleashing Sonic Ingenuity: Exploring the Dynamic World of virtual instruments,weaving intricate textures of glitch rhythms and pushing the boundaries of musical expression.
Including the new Akai Flex Beat, AudioModern FrezR, Effectrix 2, and Logic BeatBreaker.
Akai Flex Beat
Flex Beat takes anything from a drum loop, synth part, guitar riff, and vocal line and injects life at the press of a button.
Elevate your production game with 16 performance pads offering diverse pattern presets. Whether you want Loop, One Shot, or Hold behaviour, Flex Beat's pad play modes have got you covered.
With three unique pad playback modes—One Shot, Loop, and Hold—exploring sonic patterns becomes an intuitive process. Just pick your mode and go on a rhythmic journey.
Flex Beat is a powerful tool in the world of sound design and FX creation. Perfect for those working in movies, TV and games. Drop Flex Beat on a sample and soon you’ll be creating new sonic possibilities from what may have been an overlooked audio file without Flex Beat.
For more info: https://www.airmusictech.com/effects/flex-beat.html
Audiomodern Freezr
Freeze segments of audio in real-time for
expressive manipulation during performance
Designed to capture, Sequence and manipulate audio in innovative and expressive ways.
Freeze segments audio in real time and arranges these audio slices into a structured musical composition,
The creative possibilities are limitless.
More info: https://audiomodern.com/shop/plugins/freezr/
Sugar bytes Effectrix 2
It is all about the magic of effects been mixed in on a grid. Forget hours of automating and scrolling your plugin lists, just plug in Effectrix2 and start drawing. Use the Loopers for looping beyond madness, with easy time, speed and pitch modulation.
Go for vintage Scifi with the Ring modulator. Tape Start/Stop and Scratch with the Vinyl effect. Enter alien space ship sounds with the Spectrum effect. Freeze, pitch and stretch with the Grain engine, add notes and chords with the Tonalizer. Crush serves you with the finest digital reduction. The Filter gives you all the dramatic sweeps and fattening.
The Phaser adds drama to your queen, while Modulation provides quality Chorus and Flanger effects. Delay and Reverb adding space and the Level effect can be used for trance gates, but also compression and stereo enhancing.
Effectrix2 offers a wide range of modulators which can be applied per step. This results in endless possibilities to create vivid soundscapes. The most straight forward modulator is From To. The modulation will start with your parameter value and then transition to the target value.
More info: https://sugar-bytes.de/effectrix2
Logic pro x Beat Breaker
Beat Breaker is an audio plug-in that reorders incoming audio in real time, allowing you to slice up your audio, rearrange it, and add scratching effects. Not only can you use it to play back audio in a different slice order, but you can also set the speed, direction, and volume with a given number of repeats for each slice. All these slice playback features define patterns that you can change on the fly.
Beat Breaker is not just an effect you add to a track but an effect you can perform with onstage or in the studio. This unique plug-in excels at EDM and hip-hop, and it can help you overcome “writer’s block” during production. In addition, it’s great for coming up with new ideas for your beats and subsequent variations.
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More info:
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/logicpro/lgcpd8d5d067/mac#:~:text=Beat%20Breaker%20is%20an%20audio,it%2C%20and%20add%20scratching%20effects.
Xfer Lfo Tool
An oldie but goodie!!
LFOTool will process incoming audio as well as generate a MIDI message stream for controlling other instruments.
This unique plug-in also allows users to sculpt custom LFO curves and shapes and comes equipped with dozens of presets to achieve desired results quickly.
- LFO with customizable point+tension-curve editor, 12 graphs in a preset (switchable via MIDI notes or automation)
- Up to 4 graphs simultaneously (Cutoff/Reso/Pan)
- Can optionally send MIDI CC out to control other softsynths, effects, or external hardware which responds to MIDI CC messages.
- BPM (with optional swing) or Hz LFO rate control
- Sample-accurate sync
- Dozens of presets included
More Info: https://xferrecords.com/products/lfo-tool
CONCLUSION
These devices offer a gateway to artistic exploration and sonic innovation. Whichever path you choose, These effects are poised to be powerful allies in your creative journey.