[ 270 drum kits and 2600 grooves from ]

[ 9/10 for the "Marvellous Machine" Computer Music Oct 2003 Issue ]

 Features/Specifications

  The RM IV contains a range of features designed to make your music-making more efficient and enjoyable:

[ 9/10 from Music Tech Magazine: "..., so those looking for modelled TR808- or TR909-style sounds will be in heaven" ]

• drum synthesis and sample plugin for Mac OSX and PC.
• 18 polyphonic Drum Pads, up to 32-voice polyphony (selectable per Drum Pad).
• Freely assignable output configuration up to 18 stereo or mono outputs.
• Multiple instances of the instrument can be opened.
• Samples and whole Kits can be browsed while playing your music.
• A wide range of different Audio Generator modules which include an extensive selection of percussion synthesis modules and a sophisticated percussion sampler module.
• Waveform Display which shows the Waveform of samples, the effect of the Pitch Envelope, the Amplitude and the Filter Envelope.
• Designed for drums but can be used for pitched samples as well.
• The instrument is Multitimbral with each pad having its own MIDI channel.
• True stereo sample playback and processing (all filters and effects are mono and stereo).
• Professional user interface providing direct access to controls with the minimum number of mouse-clicks.
• Currently 2 different Kick drum modules, 2 different Snare drum modules, Open and Closed HiHat module, Tom module, Clap module, 2 Cymbal modules and a FM Percussion module
• Each Drum Pad includes its own controls for Output Destination, Vol(ume), Pan, (only if routed to a Stereo output), Tune (+- 24 semitones in 10 cent intervals), Choke Group (5 groups are available including prev/next and self-mute), Polyphony (mono...8, full), Mute and Solo and a MIDI activity display.
• For each Drum Pad the user has access to a multi-mode AHDSR-controlled filter, a Compressor with controls for Ratio, Threshold and Release, a "Varizer" with controls for Style, Precision and Spectrum, a 6 x 6 Modulation Matrix and two separate effects processors (Distortion and BitCrusher).
• Drum Pad Displays automatically switch upon editing allowing exact adjustment of level, pan and tuning and other parameters.
• Each Sampler module can hold up to 30 samples that can be individually triggered.
• Samples on each Drum Pad can have individual volume settings and can be layered, velocity-switched and velocity-crossfaded.
• Samples can be played forwards or backwards.
• The Amplitude Envelope Release Time can be set to "endless", so that even long
  samples won't be cut off.
• Supported sample formats include 8-32 bit WAV, AIF Samples with 8-24 bit resolution and the 32 bit float WAV format, all these formats in mono and stereo and with any sample rate.
• Supported Kit Formats are LinPlug RM IV, LinPlug RM III, Computer Music CM-505, LinPlug RM 2, and the widely used Steinberg LM 4 format.
• The file path to samples and kits is remembered for the next time you open the file dialog.
• Two pan modes are available: Equal Voltage (mono compliant) and Equal Power.
• Optional Drum Pad velocity sensitivity.
• Switchable linear or circular dial response.
• Display can show either note numbers or note names, whatever you prefer.
• Adjustable velocity response curve with 10 settings from linear to extreme exponential.
• Adjustable voice limit from a single to eight notes or full polyphony for each pad
• All Parameters are MIDI controllable and automateable (VST automation).
• Controller hardware (faderbox or synth) settings can be saved and restored using the LinPlug ECS (Easy Controller Setup). ECS supports conventional and Alpha Dial controller.
• Internal 32/64 bit processing.
• Dynamic resource allocation (unused components are switched off automatically) for minimum CPU usage.
• Sample accurate timing, settings are saved with the song.

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