It seems like Waves has really been gunning after XLN as of late.Ī few months ago they also dropped Retro Fi which is a LoFi plugin clearly targeted at the same market that would use XLN’s RC-20 which is probably one of XLN’s most time-tested and coveted plugins. While this combo might not have as many powerful features as XLN’s XO, they sure are at a much more reasonable price point. This can be useful if you’re working with some sort of acoustic based samples like a guitar or piano where the qualities of a low velocity note are much more unique than a high velocity note so you can have your sample change to a high velocity recorded sample as you play harder. You can also split samples up by velocities. You can also save presets so if you go crazy designing a setup, you can save it with or without the loaded samples. You can also construct drum racks this way by assigning a drum sound to a specific key so you can use CR8 as a drum rack. This means you can have bass samples only playing on lower keys and leads or pads playing on higher keys. This is where things get really wild and you can split your samples up to only play across certain keyboard ranges. Its visual representation is just so accurate and makes it way easier to see what you’re modulating. Waves has killed it with this modulation section and I think more plugin developers should considering a modulation section like this. You can then modify these modulation sources to your liking and adjust how much they positively or negatively impact the parameter. In the case of CR8 you have 5 MIDI parameters, 4 modulation types, and 4 envelopes which when you click and drag on one can be assigned to any parameter that has these little boxes. If you don’t already know about Waves modulation sections, these are built into the bottom of most Waves plugins. This is also super fun to modulate to make some unique sounds. You can also freeze the sample by pressing this hand which locks the playhead in the sampler to whatever you set in the offset. What’s nifty is this little speed knob which is super fun to modulate and changes the speed at which the sample is played back. When loop is turned on you can set the loop start and end points independently of the sample start point. The looper section has some crazy powerful stuff in it. Cosmos auto-detect keys and tempos so when you drag in samples they’re already tuned and ready to play! Īdding in samples is easy enough, you can drag them in from anywhere or click on the sample you want in Cosmos to load it in. I’ve been sideying XO like crazy and just waiting for a deal to drop but Waves just basically ripped off XO’s sample browser and released it for free. As far as I know, they’re the ones who created this idea of creating this visualization where all samples or clustered together next to samples that sound the same. This concept and user interface is not anything new.įor those in the scene, you have probably already seen plenty of videos and ads about a similar plugin from XLN called XO. It then allows you to search for samples in 3 different views, my favorite being the Cosmos view where it organizes sounds into these clusters of similar sounds and you can quickly drag around to find the sound you’re looking for.īy the way, if you need samples click here to check out my sample pack store. Cosmos is a sample analyzer where you select all folders that contain your samples and it scans the sounds and applies any applicable tags or instrument categories to that sample making it easy to find what you’re looking for.
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