Rhythmic Robot Audio - VL Calc KONTAKT

26.12.2018 | KONTAKT | 76,15 MB

英文简介:

Something that was weirdly great about the 80s was the emergence of “things that are also other things”. For example: pencil erasers that also smell of candy. Or toy cars that are also toy robots. Or school calculators that are also tiny synthesisers.

Casio’s VL Tone series of calculators really embodied an oddball notion taken to extremes: once you’ve solved the square on the hypotenuse as being equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides of the triangle, why not kick back with some funky toonz? (Luckily there was a headphone jack built in, so that the surprisingly loud two-inch speaker didn’t distract the rest of the class from their studies.) Not only were there six preset sounds to fool around with, you could even – get this – program your own, by inputting laborious strings of numbers with the calculator switched to a special mode. With control over envelope, tone shape, vibrato and so on, you could come up with your own VL Tone patches, in a move which Casio presumably hoped was a kind of gateway drug to their bigger, more professional keyboards.

So why shouldn’t you run a mile screaming at the idea of Frankensteining a calculator and a synth into one monstrous hybrid? Well, a couple of reasons. Firstly, the VL Tone came with a dinky cream leatherette carrying-case, which wins a ton of kudos in anyone’s book. Secondly, the sounds it makes are surprisingly versatile, especially once you’ve layered them up, made them polyphonic, and perhaps detuned things a bit. You get six preset sounds to play with: Horn, Flute, Violin, Fantasy, Guitar and Piano – and any three of these can be layered, mixed and detuned. Amplifier and Filter envelopes give you classic subtractive control, and there’s a basic Vibrato control that mimics the original VL Tone style. The Glitch button fries the calculator’s circuits to spark up brand new sounds with a mouse-click. Oh, and as our special nerd-gift to you, we’ve already typed 5318008 into the display. Basically, we’ve deliberately kept things nice and simple.

Rhythmic Robot Audio - VL Calc KONTAKT screenshot

The core waves have an aggressively digital, gritty, low-resolution edge to them which when sampled direct via the headphone jack lends itself particularly well to dark, foreboding, threatening sounds; or cutting, über-digital leads. Patch in the tiny, tinny speaker, though, and everything thins out, compresses and distorts, yielding a tone palette that veers between eerily atmospheric and sharply unsettling. It sounds like angry ghosts have got themselves a crystal radio set and tried to make music with it.

Furthermore, we’ve included the eight original onboard rhythms, which you can access by playing keys in the lowest MIDI octave. These are beatsliced and will sync to your DAW’s tempo, giving you instant access to itty bitty bit-tune beeps and boops. Your options here are 4-beat, Beguine, BossaNova, March, Rock 1, Rock 2, Samba and Swing – which should keep you covered for almost any style of algebra-themed disco event.

Always, the underlying character of the VL is quite harsh and raw-sounding. You can of course smooth this down with the Filter circuit, or simply embrace it for its attitude; but no matter how you approach it, there’s something endearingly odd and strangely unique about what you can get out of it.

官网: https://www.rhythmicrobot.com/product/vl-calc

资源下载
下载价格5 软妹币
客服vx:cz91880
您下载了资源并不代表您购买了资源。如需购买,请购买官方正版。 在本站下载的资源均用于学习,请24小时内删除,如需商用,请购买官方正版。如下载用户未及时删除资源引起的版权纠纷,VSTHOME不承担任何法律责任。 如有侵权行为请邮件到:2568610750@qq.com,我们会在24小时内删除侵权内容,敬请原谅!
0

评论0

站点公告

本站部分资源采集于互联网,版权归属原著所有,如有侵权,请联系客服微信【cz91880】,我们立即删除。
显示验证码
没有账号?注册  忘记密码?

社交账号快速登录

微信扫一扫关注
如已关注,请回复“登录”二字获取验证码