Sound Dust have released Rebellious Beat Box, available for £35.00 / $48.00 / €43.00.
Knitted from the sounds of early drum synthesis and the cheap, slightly wonky technology that helped make some of the great records of the late 70s and early 80s. Rebellious Beat Box brings together 50 kits built from real and hybrid gear – CR78, 707, 606, 909, Minipops, Optigan, Linn and more – mixed with complementary sounds from modular and analogue hardware.
Everything is squashed through my ancient Roland Space Echo 501. The preamp supplies the grit, and the repeats add patina and become part of the instrument. Echoes are split and mapped across the velocity range of each hit. Play hard for a cleaner, more direct hit; play softly and you travel deeper into the tape. Or reverse it – the second octave flips the velocity order.
The territory runs from early Rough Trade and Factory records, Martin Hannett, Throbbing Gristle, Joy Division, Suicide, Cabaret Voltaire, Fad Gadget and The Human League through to LCD Sound System, Burial and beyond to SOPHIE, Charli XCX, Slayyyter, Kim Petras and on into the future.
Features include:
- 160MB download
- 1600 samples
- 50 drum kits
- 64 multisample drum articulations
- 12 IR reverb engines
- 42 custom reverb and gadget impulses
Watch the walkthrough video HERE.
Rebellious Beat Box requires a full version of Kontakt 6.7.1 or later.
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