Tim Exile New Modular System: The First Of Its Kind?
A flexible modular electronic music creation system.
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The Tim Exile New Modular System is a modular platform for building your own electronic production or live performance setup in your DAW.
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Tim Exile is always cooking up something exciting, and with his background in electronic music, he’s particularly well tapped into the needs of artists and producers who are short on time but not creativity.
Tim Exile New Modular System
This time, Tim has developed a flexible modular platform that allows you to build your own production setup piece by piece using a range of instrument modules, effects modules, MIDI generators, and controller modules that can change the way trigger data interacts with instruments and integrate with hardware controllers for a performance-based workflow.
Like most of Tim’s toys, the system runs within Native Instruments Reaktor. However, this time, you’ll need a full Reaktor license updated to version 6.5; the free Reaktor Player will not suffice. The New Modular System, which we assume will get a new name when it launches in a few months, is inspired by Tim’s beat-generating tool, Scapeshift, and the way that Eurorack modules allow unique creative possibilities.
The main goal with this project is to provide a fluid, customizable creative platform for beat production with performance capabilities that allow you to use your favourite MIDI controller or even incorporate external hardware instruments. The working prototype, which is now available, comes with four preset patches to get you started, including setups for creating dub techno loops, ambient soundscapes, glitch percussion, or polyphonic bell sounds.
Of course, free-form music creation environments do exist, but what makes this unique is the range of controller modules that give you a wide scope of different approaches for pattern creation, sequencing, parameter randomization, macros, and controller mapping. Overall, the platform seems extensive, and it will get interface design and more features with the official launch, which is exciting.
Pricing and Availability:
The Tim Exile New Modular System is currently available as a working prototype for £49. The eventual full price will be £69, but early adopters will be able to upgrade to the full version for free. Please note that a full version of Reaktor 6.5 is required.
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It would be fantastic if Exile produced product that was fully developed, actually worked and was bug free rather than continually pumping out over-hyped, unfinished slop. Scapeshift in particular was and is rubbish.
Endlesss actually worked pretty well – in spite of being a relatively complex on-line multiuser thing and several of his other REAKTOR instruments also work nicely – I’ll give it a try :-9 , but I admit I haven’t fought with Scapeshift…
I found Scapeshift to be cryptic at first, but I ended up mastering it and made an entire album with it called “Scapeshifter”. The Pattern Sequencer in particular is unique and worth spending some time with.
I am running this right now and I’m having a blast with it. After building about eight patterns, the Wander controller has been morphing to some surprising places over the past hour–completely unattended.
Very engaging and refreshingly candid presentation. I am sold , I just have so much software to explore with the virtual explosion in plug ins and instruments, i can tell this will still take time to intuitively move to interesting and unique results. I am 70 , audio veteran. As much as I try to keep up I found myself wanting a host to hold all the possibilities. and human instruction on how to operate.
Electronic music goes back to 24pps
May I suggest a parameter that makes sync be random. I found working that way when I let things wild sync it, took things out of the Kraftwerk march syndrome. I look forward to more organic sounds without relying on samples.” Sync is overrated.”