Like most young people, Tim Exile got his little digits stuck in small openings. He may have learned not to poke about in electrical outlets (they're 220 volts where he's from; s'why they learn things twice as fast in England), he never stopped experimenting with his finger. Tim Exile's digital wanderings (get it?) have lead him to develop a highly interactive software effects processing solution for the Kore Player engine: Native Instruments The Finger.

The Finger permits indeterminate electronic manipulation where intuitive sound mangling, live remixing, and advanced tempo-synced processing are at play. Through The Finger, Your MIDI keyboard (or the "piano roll" of your DAW) now has the ability to trigger effects on its own. Four octaves of your MIDI keyboard have a specific effect per sound with their own settings assigned to each. These chains of effects can be arranged and re-arranged according to your whims and allows you to play and improvise with effects just as you would with a real acoustic instrument.

The Finger as 44 effects that includes real-time samplers/transformers (e.g. loop, re-arrange, reverse, scratch, heavy granular effects etc.), as well as filters, gates, delays, reverbs, distortion, wave shapers, ring modulation, etc. Two parameters per effect can be controlled by either key velocity or mod wheel and is tempo-synced to a master clock or your audio host's tempo.

You know, the best way to explain this is through the magic of YouTube:

This new instrument requires at minimum your MIDI keyboard and a copy of Kore Player. You can also use The Finger with Reaktor 5. A copy of Native Instruments The Finger can be purchased for 79.00 USD via the Native Instruments' website.