D16 Group have released Nithonat 2, available at the intro price of €69.00, increasing to €119.00 after the promotion.
Characteristic, harsh and metallic sounds that cut through the mix like butter. A whole spectrum of sounds is now at your fingertips – rumbling kicks, barky snares and completely unique, ear-grabbing toms and hi-hats.
The included effect chain will make your sound bigger and fatter straight from the output.
A rich set of editing functions and sound articulations along with the easy-of-use interface will fill your head with tons of musical ideas.
For the first time since its release in the 80s, you can explore what the 606 would have truly been capable of! The 606 was designed as a companion of the 303 silver box; it may look deceptively simple, but it’s a very versatile unit. It’s found its place in a whole variety of music genres, ranging from the 80s pop, through to modern EDM and experimental.
Don’t want to dive into the technicalities of Nithonat’s signal flow just yet? Then D16 have you covered thanks to factory presets full of scenes, drum kits and patterns. You can get straight into making your music.
Its synthesis is special – even when compared to Nepheton’s. It has the characteristic hi-hats and cymbals you’d expect, due to precise software emulation of the original hardware circuits; the bass drum has unparalleled attack character and strong punch; the snare sounds sandy.
These unique attributes guarantee our 606 is not a sub-standard 808, but instead it’s a great instrument in its own right…with a unique timbre that brings an old school feel to your tracks.
Get the exact sound; add grit with a bitcrusher or distortion, control space with reverb or delay, and fatten your sound with chorus; mix everything together nicely using dynamics and EQ algorithms. All these can also be used creatively with the addition of a filter – the possibilities are endless.
Once you have a pattern in Nithonat, the drag and drop MIDI export function lets you quickly finish work on your pattern in your DAW.
A super easy-to-use and inspiring sequencer is at your fingertips, along with a tap function, randomizer, and more. Still looking for inspiration? Just browse the hundreds of factory patterns D16 have included.
With the tap function, you can seamlessly record your ideas into patterns, then edit them like any other pattern. Use your screen or MIDI pad controller – whichever workflow you prefer.
With just the hit of a button, you can fill up your sequencer with unexpected ideas, get inspired and revitalize your workflow. Randomizer can fill a pattern however you specify, providing useful randomized drum lines you can edit or save seamlessly.
Quickly adjust velocity for accented and non-accented steps, and add extra flair with the optional global accent boost.
Enrich your musical dictionary with per-step flam or several variants of substep with editable properties; get ever more elaborate rhythms.
Use a pattern trigger mode that suits you: MIDI notes, MIDI CC or GUI.
With EQ and compression per instrument, you can quickly tweak sounds to your needs. The 606 is very flexible in that department.
To give you a head start, D16 have included factory presets for every individual instrument to quickly put together a great-sounding kit without the fuss.
High cut and low cut filters with common resonance + 2 band parametric EQ for trimming and boosting what’s necessary to mix the instrument nicely with the rest of the Drum Kit.
This is a must-have in any proper channel strip, especially with drums. Here’s a little tip: with a bit of look- ahead enabled, and both attack and decay set to zero, you can also use the dynamics as a saturation unit.
Route / send the instrument to one of the two FX buses or directly to the master bus. The only limit is imagination.
Wait! While sending the sound to the FX buses, you can even choose what precise slot in the bus to send it to. Use buses creatively.
A capable master section glues everything together nicely.
Ready-to-use master presets can get you the desired results, fast. Also, use this feature to store your own settings and speed things up for grooves to come.
A 3-band compressor integrates your soundscape so it works nicely as a whole. Its extremely responsive character will add some ’air’ to your beats.
Use the limiter to control and add power to the output. It’s not just a transparent, brick-wall limiter, it has its own distinctive punchy ’tone’ to enhance your sound.
You’ll find an easily manageable MIDI map and classically-inspired trigger outs; they’re the cherry on top.
You can quickly rearrange mapping to match your MIDI controller, DAW or instrument. . . Nithonat’s MIDI configuration puts the power in your hands.
Some 606 mods had analog trigger outputs to control external gear using the internal sequencer. Producers often used this output musically, adding a trademark short pulse sound that became a hallmark of electro music; it’s a feature which has been included for that authentic feel.
Nithonat 2 is available to PC and Mac users (VST2, VST3, AU and AAX).
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