Native Instruments has introduced The Mouth, a new Reaktor effect that can create melodies and sounds based on an audio signal:
Sing, beatbox or send a drum loop into it and The Mouth comes to life as a tweakable synthesizer, bass, vocoder or talkbox-like effect. A playful interface provides you with plenty of room to shape your results as you go.
NI’s The Mouth can be used stand-alone or as a plug-in. It retails for .
The Mouth for Reaktor and Reaktor Player is available to purchase for $79/69 EUR.
Preview below. See the NI site for more details.
If you’ve used The Mouth, leave a comment with your thoughts!
Features:
- 118 synthesizer & multi effects.
- 4 generators: Input (with a choice of the raw input audio, or a ‘tuned’ version), Synth, Bass and Vocoder.
- Each generator comes with numerous different sounds easily selectable via a preset matrix in the interface.
- 5 faders in a simple mixer section, which also includes a master FX section for coloring the final mix.
- 8 Performance Control knobs alter both sound and amplitude envelopes at once, for easily shaping the character of the sound, and adding additional harmonies.
- ‘Beats Mode’ will process incoming drum patterns into interesting arpeggiated melodies.
I think it's awesome to see NI promoting Reactor instruments. Reaktor seemed to have lost the love for a little while back there.
DO WANT
Vokator was much cooler…. It seems ni discontinued many of their great instruments just to sell watered down versions a year later…. WTF.
Seems to make NI Komplete quite cheap when Reaktor alone is so usefull when demonstrated how, and good ensembles free online.
Just got it last night. Its a lot of fun. Used as a send effect it can do some amazing stuff.
The midi out works too but the internal synths seem to track vocals much better. I am still learning everything it can do. Its pretty deep.
It was only 20$ with a coupon I had for ages. Nice of NI not to kill old coupon! Class!
Is this product anything like the old Kantos Audio-controlled Synth VST released by Antares Audio Technologies a few years back?
no demo version wtf?
just got it last night, got lost in it for hours. seems to be a big part of james blake's sound.
fyi,
1)if you download it it works as a 30min demo until activated.
2)if you get reaktor free you usually can't use the free reaktor patches around online (in response to dapunk)
Hey @mymymetrocard (nice reference btw), how can you download as a demo without buying? Would *love* to get a demo of this.