Rhythmic Robot releases Typewriter Kontakt instrument

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It's very nearly Valentine's day. Perhaps you want to write Love Letters Straight from your Heart, but don't want your beloved to know your secret identity? Or perhaps you just want to type "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" over and over again while your wife goes crazy upstairs and your little boy sees dead people in the bath. We're not judging you. Either way, Typewriter (£1.50) is here for you.

Typewriter is a sampled version of a 1920s Imperial wide-carriage typewriter. It includes a pool of randomly-selected keystrikes, plus a host of carriage-return, bell, platen wind, spool wind, shift, tab and other mechanical noises. Keystrikes can be "played" with one hand from a MIDI keyboard's white notes while shift, tab, carriage return and so on can be added at will via the black notes.

Typewriter is ideal for special effects, stutter-type glitches, foley effects or sound design. It is available now from www.rhythmicrobot.com where you'll also find some hints and tips for how to use Typewriter in your tracks!

Features:
  • 21 randomly-selected keystrike samples: no machine-gunning.
    Mechanical noises, platen winds, tabs, shift up and shift down, space bar etc.
    Mapped so as to be "playable" from a MIDI keyboard: type from your synth.
Price: £1.50. Requires Kontakt version 4.2.3 or later (including Kontakt 5).

ALSO: We've dropped the price of Snaps 'n' Claps back to £1.50. The price rise was a mistake. People who bought it at £2.50 will be getting a refund of the quid's difference, plus a free copy of Typewriter! :D
Last edited by the professor on Sun Feb 12, 2012 9:14 am, edited 2 times in total.
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It's pretty cool what you can do GUI wise with Kontakt today! The typewriter is a good idea!
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Thanks! The spools and top casing in the GUI are a photo of the actual Imperial itself, though obviously things have been Photoshopped after that :D

We've been surprised and pleased by the take-up of this instrument. Why do you all love it so much? Is it just because it's cheap enough to be a no-brainer, or was the world secretly holding its breath for a Kontakt typewriter? It's outselling Snaps'n'Claps at the moment, which means I now owe Mongo a fiver, dammit :o
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