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-=Loupe=-
Loupe is self documenting through extensive tool-tips. None of the controls are too small or too fiddly. You can learn how to use it in minutes but I think you'll find a million uses for it. This reflects my instrument building philosophy that an instrument should give you musical leverage without making you feel like you're endlessly flipping switches on a room-sized computer from the 1960s.

-=Mirage=-
Mirage is a granular sampler inspired by three things - the music of Tim Hecker, my laziness, and my disorganization. ;-) It's sort of like a trapper keeper for ambient sampling. It lets you select an area of a sample to work with, then allows you to set your granular parameters, per-voice filter settings and pan, voice retrigger frequency, and other things - and crucially, it remembers the pitches you play and saves them with a snapshot when using the "Hold" button.

This creates a host-independent sketchbook for sound design and composition. When you stumble upon a magic combination of samples, settings and notes, everything saves together in the instrument for later recall, refinement and mixing.

Mirage is aimed at a different musical goal than Loupe - you might say that if Loupe is a paintbrush for cubism then Mirage is one for impressionism. Both instruments differ, then, from the typical granular sampling feel and sound which in my mind is more like pointillism.

-= Paramdrum 3 =-
ParamDrum is a fun and fast way to create unique sounding beats in Reaktor. It's based on three granular samplers with built in parameter automation and variable length and speed step sequencers. The value of a step gives the probability that the step will trigger as the sequence plays, creating endless variations.

nJoy!