MUSE RESEARCH REPRESENTATIVE: So, I’m going to demonstrate now using the DrumKAT with the Receptor. And in this example we’re using Kompakt as our sound engine and the Alternate Mode library that automatically comes with the Receptor when it’s purchased as the Alternate Mode Receptor. So here for example is a shaker.

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If you want to change a sound, you simply call up the instrument that you want, let’s say an udu, you push a button and it loads in that quickly, and you’re ready to play.

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The entire library connected with this is set up so that this is a C major scale, so no matter what sound that you’re trying to call up, it automatically loads in, you know, that quickly. So, here’s another udu.

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If you wanted a conga, you do the same thing, a frame drum, boomwhackers.

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So now I want to switch completely to a different module. I’m going to go to the Stylus. I’ll go to a marimba sound. On the MalletKAT -- I’m sorry -- On the DrumKAT, I’m able to use functions on here where I, rather than playing just one note [PLAYING A C NOTE WITH A MARIMBA SOUND], I can actually transpose the notes as I’m playing.

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Like that, which makes it kind of fun. Well here’s another example where I’m using -- I’m moding in a piano right now.

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I don't know but he’s doing something now. Well he’s doing that.

So now what will happen, the player will automatically switch from the Kompakt player. It’s loading. You’ll see it in a second. Okay. There we go, the Stylus RMX. There we go. And here -- Oops --- And here, you get up Stylus RMX.

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Besides playing individual notes, the DrumKAT sends control that, so as I play...,

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...I can change the pitch of the snare drum...

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...and control loops at the same time.

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So, it’s really an interesting way of playing of combining loops and playing at the same time. I’d like to show another example using Toontrack’s DFH Superior, and I’ll take a Slingerland kit. So now we’re going to switch over to Superior. As you can see, I’m going to call up the Superior kit here. So now, Superior’s being loaded up here. It’s 129 MB, so it takes around, I don't know, maybe 35, 40 seconds for it to load up, but it’s really worth the wait to see just how well Superior works. The Superior library is a 30-GB library, 85,000 samples for just a handful of drum kits, so it’s a pretty exciting library for drummers, and what makes it so different is this, just about there.

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It’s a completely polyphonic hi-hat, and no matter what position I aim with my foot, it’s dynamic and the samples change as I play louder.

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So, it’s a pretty, pretty unbelievably sounding. And what’s so interesting about this program is that for every single drum there’s a microphone. So, if I’m calling up a kick drum, I have a close mic, I have an overhead mic, an ambient mic, and I can turn on any microphone that I want to get like a rattle of a snare drum on a tom-tom for example and it’s a pretty awesome thing. I’ll show one more, and that’s the program it’s a BFD lite. I believe it comes with the receptor. I think it’s for a 30-day trial, and I’ll show you what that kit sounds like. So here’s an image of the BFD program, and again it’s loading. And what’s fun about these libraries, BFD and DFH, is that they sound so different, so once a person has something like a Receptor, you get hungry for every single module that you can get to fit in here. It’s truly an exciting thing. One more second to load. Okay.

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And again, you can see...

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...very dynamic. Hey! How are you?

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And changing with the cymbals and open and close.

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So that’s some of the examples that we have using the DrumKAT with some of the sound sets.