Beat fuel. Beautiful.
A hybrid drum designer and kit builder that blends
acoustic and electronic drum sounds with custom IRs.
REZONATOR
Hybrid Cluster Kits
With Rezonator I wanted to mash deep electronic kits with noisy cluster percussion—all colored with convolution.
For the electronic kits, I was chasing a particular "sound". I created 122 multi-sampled synthetic drum instruments using different sound treatments, including pultech filter, tape profile, tube/valve, and wah pedal.
Rezonator is packed with 250 multi-sampled percussion instruments based on organic, metal, and plastic hand percussion—designed to maximize mayhem. These include custom shakers, rattles, clackers, clappers, drums, ankle bells, and one-of-a-kind noise sources.
Pushing Rhythm Design
I spent days running these through the almost 400 convolution impulses. There's just so much creative variability. The custom IRs include vinyl/radio/tape/digital noise and static, granular effects, digital and acoustic sound effects, frequency modeling, mic effects, stereo imaging, and some pitch-based impulses for adding harmonic interest to rhythms.
Rezonator is a beast.
54 essential kits ranging from big, deep house/downtempo kits to dirty, hyperactive electronic/tribal kits. Or make your own. Always with multi-out capability.
This might be my favorite of the bunch. A percussion playground for songwriters, music producers, and film score composers.
Check out the other kit builders in the bundle: Konstruktor and Fabrikator.
True Hybrid Drums
Rezonator is a hybrid drum designer and kit builder that blends acoustic sound sources with synthesized waveforms. Together with both fully acoustic and fully synthetic elements, this kit builder creates truly hybrid drums for designing rhythms with a unique, fresh new sound.
Convolution Colors
Model each kit slot with its own convolution plugin: nearly 400 custom impulses that color, shape, distort, and augment the drum samples. Thicken kick drums, smear and widen snares, turn hi-hats into mini rhythm engines. Glitchbomb, Drumrust, Echoglitz, Boomscope...
Robot Or Human?
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 also be used to control how different convolution impulses color an instrument. Rezonator 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 the convolution impulse colors 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.