Beat fuel. Beautiful.
A hybrid drum designer and kit builder that blends
acoustic and electronic drum sounds with custom IRs.
FABRIKATOR
Dynamic Hybrid Kits
With Fabrikator I wanted distinctive acoustic-synthesized drum kits: texture and motion.
I created unique sound treatments to produce over 200 multi-articulation sample instruments, including valve emulation and fuzz-wah filters, frequency disintegration and granulation, harmonic and digital distortion, and pitch/time and modulation effects.
Fabrikator is a beast—a rhythmic playground with a sound all its own.
Pushing Rhythm Design
With Fabrikator's totally new sample content, the aim was to bring more creativity with dynamic textural material and convolution.
I added new custom IRs (which brings the total to almost 400), including vinyl/radio/tape/digital noise and static, granular effects, digital and acoustic sound effects, frequency modeling, mic effects, stereo imaging, and new, pitch-based impulses for adding harmonic interest to rhythms.
Fabrikator comes packed with 72 drum kits, ranging from big, deep hip-hop/downtempo kits to dirty, hyperactive electronic/hybrid kits. Always with multi-out capability. A percussion playground for songwriters, music producers, and film score composers.
Check out the newest addition to the Klüsterkitt bundle: Rezonator — deep electronic kits and acoustic cluster percussion.
Texture and Motion
Fabrikator sports an all-new sound palette of custom-designed acoustic-synthetic kit elements. Fabrikator's electronic kits are a playground of different sound treatments—grungy, glitchy, granulated, distorted, tuned, etc.—that respond to convolution in even more interesting ways.
Motion Convolution
Sculpt each kit slot with convolution: almost 400 custom-designed impulses that color, shape, and spatialize every nuance of frequency and texture. Create deep, echoing kicks, dynamic, resonating snares, shimmering, syncopated hi-hats. Bitclutter, Humfuzz, Echoglitz, Monoflak...
Robot Or Space Cadet?
Control the amount of randomization that is applied to velocity and quantization—separately for each kit slot. Make those snares and hi-hats extra trashy. And with 6 round-robin layers for every articulation, even fully synthetic kits can find a new groove. Let those kits run loose.
Performance Control
Adjustments to tuning, sample start points, decay envelopes, and sample width can be used to control how different convolution impulses color an instrument. Fabrikator is multi-out capable: kit slots can be routed to separate output channels for automation control and 3rd party plugins.
Filter Control
Each of the 7 kit slots has three dedicated, independently selectable lowpass, bandpass, and highpass filters, each with dedicated cutoff and resonance knobs for on-the-fly switching. Filtering offers another way to control how convolution impulses color the sound.
Smart Randomization
A powerful kit-building tool, this feature preserves the kit's performance controls and offers three randomization modes: sample banks only, convo choices only, or both. With two temporary memory slots for comparing new combos, tailor settings then save a snapshot of your new kit.
The Klüsterkitt requires the full version of Kontakt 5.7.1 or later (the instrument cannot be used in the free Kontakt Player).
Kontakt 8 users: NI's user guide offers instructions for loading user snapshots.