It’s nice to see a big music software company showing a little bit of Christmas generousty and in this case it’s Native instruments. They have relesed the Kore sound pack compliation Vol 1 which you can download for free. To use it you’ll need the free Kore 2 player which also has some sounds bundled with it. The sounds range from synthesizers, acoustic instruments, percussion, groove construction kits and multi-effects patches and are taken from 12 different Kore packs.

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Although you might not like the sounds this will be a good way to test out Kore 2 which is aimed to be used live.

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Mr Ray 73 screenshot

Emulating the Fender Rhodes piano is never an easy job but GSI have surpassed themselves and challenged the leaders in the market with this tasty offering. Article includes free download of plugin.

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GSI’s Watkat is a free plugin which emulates the classic sound of the Watkins Wem copicat tape delay. This plugin is a must for serious delay and lo-fi haeds. Article includes free download of plugin.

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Metrobus

Metrobus is a software plugin metronome which syncs to your sequencer or host tempo and then provides a click or metronome track.

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Livecut is a live beatsliceing tool developed by Paul Kellett (mdsp) and is based on BBCut, the BreakBeat Cutting library written by Nick Collins for SuperCollider. Livecut has many more features than just slicing a beat. Aswell as different cutting styles like cutproc11, warpcut and SQpusher theres also a bit crusher and comb filtering.

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Kjaerhus audio classic delay

I get down and dirty with Kjaerhus audio’s classic delay as part of Live-Laptops.com free software articles.

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