SzcZ releases Beat Knitter – free Kontakt instrument
SzcZ has released the new free Kontakt instrument Beat Knitter.
Beat Knitter is a tiny drum machine and random drum pattern generator for Kontakt. It features a one-click-pattern generator, I’ve been experimenting with, it attempts to create a consistent random four track beat of bass drum, snare and open/closed hat. After some strangely complicated machines, this one has a simple approach: press the button, get a random beat.
The instrument has a very simple sound set, consisting of few one shot sounds. It has a basic four track sequencer, you can control overall velocity and a speed rate of each track. Besides one-button pattern generator, there are several other automated functions, some different, more or less random pattern generators and several pattern transformations, tracks can be shuffled, mirrored, de-synchronized, inverted and even there’s 4×4 field 45 degree rotation, so you can play the pattern upward-down…
Drum pattern can be exported to MIDI clip anytime, via drag’n’drop, so the machine can be used to quickly sketch different variations of a beat to use with another instrument.
The machine is free to get and make noise with. Download here. You will need full version of NI Kontakt 5.6.6 to run it. Leave me a note if you find it fun, or useful, or garbage.