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Zero G PS PLATINUM Wired - £54.18
WIRED: THE ELEMENTS OF TRANCE is a massive virtual instrument that provides every constituent you need to make the perfect trance track. This huge and exclusive sound archive, produced by Nigel Anderson for Zero-G, includes just about every 4/4 percussion combination that you can imagine. There are also great acid lines, full of energy and vibe and easy to edit and make your own. The pads, pad loops, synth lines and bass loops will help you muster your last ounce of euphoria. There are also loads of effect stabs and snare rolls plus a huge selection of vital drumkit sounds.
The whole library is presented within a stunning new state-of-the-art plug-in interface by NATIVE INSTRUMENTS which is specifically designed for rhythmic loop playback, manipulation, and mayhem. The convenient one-screen interface is based on (and provides all the sound manipulation tools of) NI's new INTAKT sampler, and features tremendous sound shaping abilities without disrupting the creative flow, including a first-class multimode filter, an envelope follower, two LFOs, effects, and more. The loops have been set up so that they can be automatically synced to tempo, either via the Beat Machine or the Time Machine. The Beat Machine has loops divided into their individual hits or notes (slices) which means they can be played at a wide range of tempos without change in pitch. It also allows the user to give each hit or note individual settings for pitch, playback direction, pitch envelope, amp envelope, distortion, delay, and more; a MIDI file of each loop can be easily exported so that groove, accent, and feel can be manipulated in any host sequencer. Alternatively, the Time Machine time-stretches or compresses loops in real time.
Not only can you sync, stretch, and pitch the loops, but also filter, effect and modulate them as well! A powerful sound-shaping filter, flexible envelopes, syncable LFOs, and distortion, syncable delay, and lo-fi effects can inject even more energy and individuality into the loops, and morph every sample. Since the software interface is based on the KONTAKT engine, working with it is fast, easy, and sounds great!
Features:
- Over 1 Gb of material including thousands of ultra-desirable Trance loops & samples
Features of NI Interface:
- Access to individual hits (slices) within loops
- Easy and intuitive user interface
- User interface is a player version of Native Instruments' INTAKT, whose engine is based on KONTAKT, the world's finest software sampling engine
- Loops use one or more of the three sampler-modes: Beat Machine with ISE (Individual Slice Edit), Time Machine and standard Sampler mode
- Easy synchronization of loops to MIDI tempo,
- MIDI file export permits groove, accent, and feel manipulation in any host sequencer
- Integrated effects: Group filter including low-pass, high-pass, band-reject or band-pass modes, global filter, lo-fi, distortion, syncable delay
- Modulation section provides AHDSR envelope, two individual syncable LFOs, envelope follower and a DBD pitch envelope
- Total Recall
The sound library can also be loaded into other Native Instruments samplers including INTAKT itself and KONTAKT version 1.3, for even greater flexibility and more options for working with the material.
Supported Interfaces: VST® 2.0, DXi, ASIO, Soundmanager, FreeMIDI, OMS, Audio Units**, Core Audio**, RTAS**
** RTAS support and OS X compatibility including support for Audio Units and Core Audio will be available as downloadable update later.


