M.A.P. - Modern Animated Percussion

Open Format

OVERVIEW

A COLLABORATION BETWEEN SAMPLE LOGIC & SOUNDIRON
We are proud to introduce the world’s most modern drum machine: Modern Animated Percussion. MAP redefines everything you know about percussion and rhythms. Built for the full version of Kontakt, MAP contains over 6,000 sounds and instrument presets. The intuitive design and programming of every preset delivers infinite options for sound sculpting. Packed with creative presets, the effortless user interface makes it easy to conjure rhythmic timbres and tones.

BLURRING THE LINE BETWEEN PERCUSSION & RHYTHM
MAP gives you the production quality of a polished audio loop alongside the dynamic flexibility of a drum machine. Change any aspect of the sound with infinite sonic results. How is this possible? The secret is in the infrastructure; even though each preset might sound like a perfectly produced rhythmic audio loop, it is much more, as there are no loops in this product. In the driver’s seat is a supercharged MIDI based drum machine, triggering samples with the elasticity of an arpeggiator.

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Lossless NCW Samples 24 bit 44.1 kHz

WINDOWS 7 OR LATER REQUIRED, MACOS 10.9 OR LATER REQUIRED

FROM SAMPLE TO RHYTHM
Equipped with over 4,000 unique percussive audio samples and nearly 2,000 presets, MAP has been meticulously programmed around Sample Logic’s proprietary 4-core engine. Each instrument preset contains 4 sound cores, each powered by an independent drum machine running in tandem to trigger 4 different sounds at once. This generates perfectly produced and polished loop-like results, but with far more flexibility than simple sampled audio loops. The 4-core engine allows you to change any aspect of any sound at any time, maximizing creativity. Each core has two main components: a Step Animator (MIDI step pattern engine) and a dynamic FX engine. These engines are intelligently designed for dynamic control and customization, with a visual language that’s easy to understand and tweak. Fire up all 4 cores by playing middle C on your MIDI controller - the Step Animator does the rest. For single core playback, use keys D,E,F, or G which will trigger on different clocks. Use this to deconstruct each multi-core preset and make custom playback layers in creative ways.

Reviews & Endorsements

"Modern Animated Percussion takes a pristine and colorful palette of percussive elements and twists them into an evocative rhythm machine. The interface is packed with tools for sculpting a signature sound. MAP is both inspiring and powerful, an exciting take on contemporary grooves."

Ramin Djawadi (Composer, Game Of Thrones & Westworld)

“Modern Animated Percussion just simply puts a smile on my face. I love the instant movement and motion, and the almost immediate rhythmic inspiration is brings. And importantly for me, ease of operation to customize things quickly. Into the Palette it goes”

Trevor Morris (Composer, Vikings, Dragon Age: Inquisition)

"MAP has an amazing amount of things to tweak, which means you can customize everything to fit your music perfectly."

Jesper Kyd (Composer, Assassin's Creed, Darksiders II, Borderlands)

“This thing is instant inspiration - I love the random function and the ability to endlessly tweak every element."

Jacob Yoffee (Best Shot, Andi Mack, Finding Carter, Ingress: The Animation)

DYNAMIC PRESET BROWSER
Dial in the sound you want with ease. A lot of development has been placed on the ergonomics of MAP’s all-in-one dynamic preset browser which allows you to source different attributes of any preset. This includes multi-core presets, core presets, source presets, step pattern presets and FX pattern presets. Access any attribute from multiple interface buttons and jump from one core to the next, or from one instrument preset to another. Each preset browser uses intuitive tags to guide you to the sound you’re looking for. Once you find the perfect sound, you’ll never lose it, as the Favorite Preset options allows for easy recall of your top sounds - even after closing and reopening the instrument. Preset navigation doesn’t end there: Mix and match attributes from any preset using the preset filter section to load just a source, effects rack, or step pattern of any core or multi-core preset.

STEP ANIMATOR ENGINE
The motion behind each core is the Step Animator, bringing to life MAP’s 4,000 sound sources, breathing life into each and every step of a sequenced rhythm. What is a step animator? The Step Animator is what happens when the world’s most advanced arpeggiator and drum machine get together and make a baby. One key note triggers an entire sequenced multi-step/bar rhythm, just like an audio loop, yet programmed like a drum machine. Load any pattern preset, or create and adapt your own. Each step in the Step Animator has its own independent controls, animating up to 128 steps by note length, velocity, midi transpose, stutter, stutter rate, pan and duration. So much custom control at your fingertips and all independently adjustable on a per-step basis! Too much motion? Deactivate any or all Step Animator sequences and trigger MAP as a one-shot sample playback engine.

DYNAMIC FX ENGINE
The more customization the better. Take your beats on a journey by adding up to 6 insert effects in each core, then activate the FX Animators to modulate parameters of each effect over time. This delivers even more sonic motion to animate the sound. The dynamic effects engine adds character and shape to the percussive animations. MAP offers 23 unique effects bringing the best of Kontakt right to the user interface.

MIXER AND MASTERING
To top it all off, once you’ve selected your sources, step animated them with a pattern, and dialed in some funky modulating effects, it's time to start putting the final touches on your multi-cores using the Mixer and Master FX sections. Mixer allows you to adjust each core’s volume and panning, as well as envelope shaping, filtering and EQ. In addition, the Mixer is equipped with our proprietary Energy knob which boosts the edge and power of each sound core. The Master section adds the icing on the cake, employing a dynamic FX chain where all 4 cores are summed together. Add up to 6 dynamic insert FX to master the final mix. Use global reverb, delays, phasing, flanging, compression and much more.

ROLL THE DICE WITH RANDOM
With all these dynamic features at your fingertips, why not roll the dice and let our intelligent randomization engine do the work for you? Take a road trip! Las Vegas here we come! Randomize practically any element of the sound. This is truly the fastest way to dial in something completely unique. Simply click the Random button and achieve sonic gold!

One of a kind collaboration between Sample Logic and Soundiron
6,000+ hand crafted sounds & instrument presets
3,800+ samples weighing at 5+GB (samples are delivered at 44.1kHz / 24-bit)
Dynamic “all-in-one” tag-based preset browsing system all within the UI
Proprietary 4-core Step Animator & Hot-swappable dynamic FX engine
Entirely “randomizable” performance engine for instant and infinite inspiration

The Kontakt version of this library requires the full standard retail edition of Kontakt by Native Instruments, engine version 5.6 or higher for VST, VST3, AU, and Pro Tools AAX. Kontakt Player is not supported. Learn more about the full version of Kontakt at: https://www.native-instruments.com/products/kontakt

The samples in this library are losslessly compressed 24 bit 44.1 kHz NCW files. They can only be played by Kontakt or Kontakt Player.

Product Specs

1 master NKI instrument bank in open Kontakt format
5.13 GB Installed
13,806 Samples
24 bit / 44.1 kHz NCW compressed files
Flexible and intuitive multi-layer user interface controls, with LFO, filter, FX, and arpeggiator.

System Requirements

Kontakt 5.6 requires Windows 7 (or higher), or MacOS 10.9 (or higher). The full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt is required to use .nki instrument presets in this library. The free Kontakt Player, Libraries Browser, Native Access integration, and some NKS hardware features are not supported.
A Multi-Core CPU, 8+ GB System Ram, and SSD hard drive are recommended for this library.

Documentation

Click here for the Kontakt pdf user manual