Iconic Instruments has announced a plugin instrument in collaboration with multi award-winning British Producer/Engineer, Steve Levine. The first instrument in a new series, Levine's Machines - Drum Machine, is a faithful recreation of the exact drum machine that featured on Steve's most famous recordings, as well as his outboard effects processors, plus 20 mix and pattern presets crafted by the man himself.
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Levine's Machines - Drum Machine Features
Classic Drum Sounds with Authentic Control
The Drum/Mixer panel features drum triggers, and individual tuning for each drum, and a mixer section that allows you to control Delay and Reverb sends, panning, volume and busing for each drum. The Sequencer panel features a fully customizable 16-step sequencer with Step and Shuffle controls, as well as convenient Copy, Paste, Clear and Reset controls. The Mix and Pattern preset banks contain 20 of Steve Levine's carefully crafted presets, which can be locked to preview complementary pattern and mix settings, or unlocked to suit your tracks.
Effects per Drum
Each drum and the Mix bus has its own full-featured channel strip containing Drive (with high- and low-pass exclusion control), Compressor/Limiter, Transient control and a four-band British-style EQ, all modeled after Steve Levine's particular pieces of era-specific gear. The Delay and Reverb send FX are modeled from Steve's favorite 80's-era units.
Trigger Drums, Mix, Tune and Send
The Drums section features clickable triggers, individual tuning for each drum, open Hi- Hat length control and the Clave>Rimshot switch.
The Mixer section gives you Delay and Reverb send control, panning and volume for each drum and Mix bus, and busing for each drum.
The Sequencer
Create your own custom patterns, or alter Steve's pre-built patterns. Use the Copy, Paste, Clear and Reset buttons to conveniently create alternative bars for your track.
The Play/Stop button latches the Sequencer playback to your DAW's playback, or decouples the Sequencer for standalone use or MIDI track control.
The Shuffle control delays the even numbered steps to create a feel that ranges from organic to a full-fledged dotted feel and beyond.
The Step setting determines the number of steps per bar, so when set to 16 each cycle of the Sequencer is one bar in your DAW.
Mix and Pattern Presets
The Levine's Machines - Drum Machine comes with 20 different 80's-era presets carefully crafted by Steve Levine himself.
The Mix and Pattern presets can be locked to preview the entire preset, or unlocked for independent use.
Chromatic or General MIDI
Using the Gen and Chrom jacks on the side of the instrument, the Keyboard Mapping can be toggled between a chromatic note layout and mapping that conforms to General MIDI.
Pricing & Availability
Levine's Machines - Drum Machine is available now from iconic.nyc for the introductory price of $79, later rising to its regular price of $99, for macOS and Windows in VST, AU and AAX formats.
