Certainly there are classic electro and hip-hop beats aplenty, but you would be hard pressed to label something as dubstep or techno. In terms of the beat content, SUB51 have I think avoided being too genre specific in terms of the style of rhythm loops found within the library. They all do exactly what they say on the tin, in essence simplicity and flexibility is order of the day here. There is little extra that could be requested when it comes to access of the Mechanic NKI files. Phaser Depth, Phaser Speed, Phaser Phase, Phaser Depth, Phaser Speed, Phaser Phase,Īll of the above controls are present, and spread over seven pages of parameter mappings, for each of the 100 NKI loop preset files.Īdditionally, there is currently a bonus content folder, which includes a further 9 NKI files, which hold drum kits rather than loops, the controls here include all of the above as well as extensive volume, pan and pitch controls over eleven pages, both the Kick and Snare also have attack and decay control. Reverb Pre-Delay, Reverb Decay, Reverb Low Shelf, Reverb High Damp, Reverb Stereo, Reverb Send, Reverb Return,ĭelay Time, Delay Feedback, Delay High Cut, Delay Depth, Delay Rate, Delay Saturate, Delay send, Delay Return, Limiter Input Gain, Limiter Release, Limiter Output, Transcient Input, Transcient Attack, Transcient Sustain, Transcient Output,Įnvelope Curve, Envelope Attack, Envelope Hold, Envelope Decay, Envelope Sustain, Envelope Release,Ĭompression Input, Compression Ratio, Compression Attack, Compression Decay, Compression Output, Saturation Gain, Saturation Warmth, Saturation HF Roll, Saturation Output, High Pass Filter Cut-off, High Pass Filter Resonance, High Pass Filter Gain, Low Pass Filter Cut-off, Low Pass Filter Resonance, Low Pass Filter Gain, Rather than list every page as we generally do, listing the controls should suffice to advise on what’s on offer here. Once done, it’s a case of finding the presets via Vendor which will be Native Instruments, then product that being Kontakt and finally locating your related presets in the numeric then alphabetical order (more of which later). The package uses wav files, but there are also REX files for those wishing to explore this format.Īs Mechanic is not an official NKS product, there is nothing to report on the browser side, the usual rules apply for scanning in a Kontakt library on the user side. There are 100 Kontakt NKI loop files, and currently a bonus of 9 further NKI files, which provide extensively mapped kits which include classic drum sounds.
Mechanic requires the full version of Kontakt 6.2.2, it will not run for more than 15 minutes in Kontakt player, and takes up just over 350mb of space on a hard drive when un archived. Their new release, Mechanic takes the same product strategy but on this outing applies it to the area of loops, with a collection of contemporary tempo synced and sliced loops that can be used to adorn your own tracks, either front of house, or subtly chilling in the background.
Notably, they have taken the time to make these parameters show up with accessibility in mind, not just in the libraries own GUI, but so that they appear within Komplete Kontrol mapped to the hardware knobs when scanned into the user side of KK. SUB51’s approach has been to again deliver those timeless beat boxes in the Kontakt format, and add a good deal of extra flexibility with features such as individual level controls, pan, reverb, delay, compression, saturation, filters and bitcrush fx to name a few. in particular there take on various classic drum machines have added desirable FX and controls to sounds and kits that have been sadly neglected when it comes to access via Komplete Kontrol, with applications such as Native Instruments very own Battery application offering no parameter access at all.Ĭertainly such classics as the TR606, TR808, TR909 and Linn Drum are all present within Battery, but lack of NKS control means little can be accessibly accomplished with the dry kitsounds, other than a global FX wash treatment, or opting for multiple instances on individual tracks, which can be resource hungry. SUB51 have in a relatively short space of time, carved out a reputation for producing quality, affordable niche sample libraries.