BILL HOLLAND: Welcome back to Gearwire.Com. I'm Bill Holland and I'm here with Emulsion in his studio, and we're going to look at how he uses Native Instruments Kore in production. Nate?

EMULSION: All right. Yeah. I use Kore regularly in my studio, not really in the traditional way I use it: kind of for organizing my own sounds and patches, and I use it a lot as a controller and an editor because the knobs are really smooth and it just works really well for a lot of the types of sounds I'm designing. I'll show it off here.

I've got Kore on one sound in one of my channels, and what I've done is I've kind of picked attributes that are appropriate for this sound, and I've got it popped up here. What I've done is I've had some knobs pre-set on this that I set up to combine multiple changes I the sound at once so like filter, resonance, and an LFO will all be affecting the sound with one knob twist, and that sort of thing contributes a lot. Instead of individually programming all that stuff, I can just expressively play with it and do a few overdubs and get some good sounds, so I can show that off here.

Let's see here. Just what we have is -- So, we have a sound playing and I can just bring up this rhythmic LFO and affect the way that it's changing the filter and resonance all with one knob twist, and it's super smooth, way different that you would get with a MIDI knob, and I'm that -- those effects alone are worth the price of the box absolutely.

I definitely do use it for categorizing and organizing my own sounds. One of the big problems with using softsynths for me has been they all save in different formats and different ways. If you want a pad, you have to figure out what synth you want to make that pad in first. In this way, you can kind of step away from that and think about the type of sound rather than the type of synth, which is something that I've really enjoyed.

BILL HOLLAND: Now does that integrate with VSTs that aren't made by Native Instruments.

EMULSION: It does but it takes a little background work. You have to actually take the individual patches and save them again inside of Kore, and it's not a lot of work but it definitely can add up to an afternoon of saving presets. I stick to a lot of the Native Instruments stuff because it just seemed dove-tailed really well with the Komplete so it hasn't really been a problem for me, and also, if you're working with your own sounds then it's basically exactly the same. Yeah. Only when you're organizing presets does it slow you down.

BILL HOLLAND: All right. Awesome, and thank you for showing us that. WE'll be back with more from the studio of Emulsion in Chicago at Gearwire.Com in a little bit.