KVR Audio

headquest · Post by **headquest** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 11:02 pm

Definitely looks expensive... like others I'm not so sure whether this really offers very much that isn't entirely possible with - for example - a bunch of VST instruments set up nicely in a gapless audio host such as Ableton Live.

lsd · Post by **lsd** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 11:03 pm

Back at NAMM 2003 I was told by a N.I. employee/friend of mine that they were working on a Host/sequencer. I guess this is it. I am not as excited as I thought I would be. If they would have made a really cool sequencer program with some reaktor features built in, then I would have been excited.

headquest · Post by **headquest** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 11:05 pm

I have a suspicion that the host/sequencer they have occasionally hinted at is actually something else again... not this

AL GEE · Post by **AL GEE** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 11:06 pm

Yes I wanted a sequencer.

raikard233 · Post by **raikard233** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 11:06 pm

NI, why not an host-sequencer?
I'm sure that they can do!

bugs · Post by **bugs** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 11:33 pm

I think it's just a VST management tool, very useful for performers, but not sure how useful for production work.

spritex · Post by **spritex** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 11:36 pm

I still ask this (since I don't honestly know):
If I put some VSTi inside - say - Cubase SX or Energy XT, can I use an Endless Rotary controller with value feedback (such as in Korg MicroKontrol) so that I can MIDI-learn any parameter and the knobs are always up-to-date while moving around in the song?

Stupid American Pig · Fri Jan 20, 2006 11:41 pm

nuffink wrote:I look forward to learning why it's not as good as ORION.

original flipper · Post by **original flipper** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 11:44 pm

HI

I honestly thought that NI would have developed a host by now, perhaps in the future?

This looks like it can keymap multiple synths - goodness knows why you might want to layer a reaktor ensemble with an FM7, Absynth and a Pro53 patch and then route them through Spectral delay and Vokator? - and at the same time have a Battery kit mapped to a different keyspan and finish it all of with Kontakt rompling up a serious bass patch over another seperate keymapping - if nothing else you could have a couple of mates around - spread along an 8 octave keyboard ... jamming!

Flipper.

lsd · Post by **lsd** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 12:05 am

Price and Bugs aside, I'm always happy with all the N.I. software I own. Arguable this might not be a totally "original" idea like some of their previous conceptions, but there is no doubt that it will find it's place in my music production and live set up.

I do wish they would come out with a bad ass "sequencing/sound design environment". Something like Reaktor/Metasynth meets Traktion/Live with all kinds of built in goodies such as granular synthesis, loop mangling, time stretching and massive midi control/routing posibilites.

deastman · Post by **deastman** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 12:15 am

This looks almost as powerful as eXT!

LIMITAPROACHINGINFINITY · Sat Jan 21, 2006 12:20 am

At ten times the cost no doubt!

waiting man · Post by **waiting man** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 12:26 am

glaucomys wrote:Or should I say, this looks like NI does the combinator..

that's it for me, after some focusing.
a huge vst mapper.

start a reaktor machine with c1, play a Pro53 bass with left hand, vocode yer mom through Vokator with the right, assign some funky change through the control...

[back to semi-sleep]

ew · Post by ew » Sat Jan 21, 2006 1:50 am

waiting man wrote:
glaucomys wrote:Or should I say, this looks like NI does the combinator..
that's it for me, after some focusing.
a huge vst mapper.

start a reaktor machine with c1, play a Pro53 bass with left hand, vocode yer mom through Vokator with the right, assign some funky change through the control...

[back to semi-sleep]

A VST mapper,yes- BUT with a dedicated hardware audio/controller interface... the controller box also has an audio interface ala the Rig Kontrol.

http://namm.harmony-central.com/WNAMM06 ... /KORE.html

ew

Sickle · Post by **Sickle** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 1:59 am

Sequencing is one step away, methinks..

NI HOST IS HERE