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02-Apr-12 - Rhythmic Robot sampled Kontakt instruments and beatboxes are GO!!!

RHYTHMIC ROBOT is a new website selling hand-made Kontakt instruments sampled from crusty old
kit at very pocket-friendly prices. We take old analog beatboxes, drum machines, keyboards and synths
and sample them meticulously at 24-bit. We hand loop and trim them, add custom GUI skins and
behind-the-scenes scripting to give you total control, and wire in the kinds of effects processors you
need to tame the sounds – or rough them up a bit! And the best bit is, most of our stuff is around the
£5.95 mark... plus there are bundles and special offers to give you even more bang for your buck.
Quality doesn't have to break the bank!

We currently create three kinds of Kontakt instruments. In the Beat Room, you'll find drum machines
like the Yamaha MR10, the Boss DR55, the Cheetah SpecDrum and more. These have been multi-
sampled taking into account things like Accent controls on the original instruments, so you can get
every nuance of the hardware in your tracks. We've added things like our Velocity Control Retrofit, to let
you take control of Accent or Tone parameters simply by velocity. And there are compressors,
distortion, saturation and bit-crushing effects built right in! Check out the audio demos on the site to find
which beats fit your style best.

In the Keyboard Vault we've stashed a ton of old analog keys and tones for you: everything from the
classic Logan string machine through the breathy, airy Sheltone suitcase organ, to the über-cool and
floor-shakingly low Hohner Bass 3 key bass. There are little Bakelite reed organs from the 1950s rubbing
shoulders with hefty transistor keyboard with built-in rhythm sections. Stack 'em up and rack 'em high!
Whether you want warm, fuzzy analog pads, or screaming Punk 70s anger, or airy breathy textures, or
chunking Reggae organs, it's all here.

In the Laboratory we home-brew our own kit from crusty, dusty machines salvaged from car boot sales
and garden sheds. Here we have Tubes and Wires, a massive analog tube-driven polysynth made
entirely from old tube signal generators. It's crackly and it hums and it smells of hot solder and it's
ALIVE!!! We've also wired together things like Drawbar 350, a transistor-driven keyboard with a VERY
bad attitude; plus basses, lead-line synths, and more. This is your one-stop shop for left-field, unique
sounds to breathe some wonderful weirdness into your tracks.

Finally, in Mongo's Cupboard, you can get your hands on the little bits of kit that we couldn't work out
where else to put. How about Snaps'n'Claps... your very own hippie in a tin? That's right, fire it up to add
instant finger-snaps or handclaps to your tracks: just dial in how many snaps or claps you want, and it'll
select them randomly from a pool of samples to avoid "machine-gunning". Simple, fun, and (like
everything in Mongo's Cupboard) dirt cheap at £2.50.

Our formula for success is a simple one: (1 x Mad Professor) + (1 x Hunchbacked Lab Assistant) =
Musical Armageddon. We're new, we try hard, and the website's a blast. We'd love you to come and visit
us!

Best wishes,

The Professor (and Mongo)