Big Fish Audio
The Foundry £208
Web www.timespace.com
Format PC/Mac, Kontakt 5/Player
Developed by Sonicsmiths, Big Fish’s ambitious Kontakt Player instrument weighs in at 19GB (13.6GB compressed), comprises over 18,000 samples, and introduces their Adjective Assignable Randomizing Engine, or A.A.R.E.. This centres on a grid of buttons bearing sonically descriptive adjectives – Pitched, Non-pitched, Dark, Mellow, Breathy, Distorted, Pulsing, etc – which are activated to guide/ constrain the patch randomisation system’s selection of sample layers (individual layers can be locked) and effects. Working in partnership with this, the Templates menu is home to a range of general modulation and processing setups that further shape the patch – Hard Attack, Pulsing Slow LP Filter, Rise 2s, etc. The idea, then, is that you make your own patches from scratch starting with…