Sampleson have released Funkastic, available at the intro price of $29.00, increasing to $39.00 after the promotion.
Funkastic is an A.I. model trained with funky grooves. It’s mainly designed to generate Clavi parts, but also works for electric pianos, organs, or even bass lines.
It’s built to inspire creativity and help you instantly discover new grooves that can lead to a new song, or simply to jam over.
Funkastic lets you be very specific about the generation details, allowing you to choose exactly how you want each groove to be created.
- Style: Creative, Flat 5th, Major 7 or Pentatonic.
- Mode: Minor, Major, Dominant
- Root note: C to B chromatic.
- Feel: Straight, Swing.
- Notes amount: Dense, Middle, Sparse
- Velocity Strength: High, Middle, or Low
Click on Generate to get a new generation based on the parameters you picked. Once you find something you like, you can click on Variate to create variations for the same rhythm structure (good for consecutive bars to avoid repetition).
Generated MIDI is one bar length, and can be dropped to any DAW. If you use the VST version of Funkastic, you can also choose to sync it to DAW to preview grooves matching DAW tempo and Play/Stop commands.
Funkastic was trained on performances by experienced clavi players with deep funk and soul backgrounds. We recorded hours of material performed by our team, with additional contributions from other musicians. After training the model, we requested extensive feedback from the performers to evaluate the accuracy, feel, and authenticity of its output.
The result is a model capable of generating funky grooves that are not only authentic, but also very creative and interesting. Many of the grooves are already being used in songs by our first beta testers.
Who’s it for:
- Producers – Speed up your workflow with instant funky Midi grooves. No need to program complex patterns—just hit a key and get authentic funk licks to build your tracks.
- Musicians – Trained on real performances by clavi players with deep funk and soul experience. Use it for inspiration, practice, or as a creative partner in your compositions.
- Non-players – Love the sound of classic funk but don’t play keys? Funkastic lets anyone create authentic clavi Midi grooves that feel like they’re played by a seasoned musician.
Features include:
- Generate authentic funk and soul grooves with a single click.
- A.I. model trained on real funky performances.
- Set musical characteristics: Variation, Mode, Root note, Feel, Notes Amount, Velocity.
- Full MIDI Out to control external instruments in real time.
- Drag-and-drop MIDI directly into your DAW.
- Retina- and 4K-ready interface.
- Lightweight, fast, and fully local (no cloud connection required).
Watch the demo video HERE.
Funkastic is available to PC and Mac users (VST3, AU and standalone).
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