Short Circuit 2 v0.5.0 - Free
VST sampler 20th
May 2010
Short Circuit 2 has been
discontinued. It is now freely available for download,
but Vember Audio does not offer any support for it.
Short Circuit 2 is a software sampler
in the shape of a VSTi plug-in for the
win32-platform.
Short Circuit 2 was created as a
reaction against the ongoing trend where software
samplers are being designed with the primary intent
of library playback. It is intended for people who,
like us, consider a sampler to be a musical
instrument in its own right, and not just a way to
emulate other instruments. It has been a very high
priority to make sure that adding and editing
individual samples is as fast and logical as
possible.
The sample hierarchy in Short Circuit
2
allow you to place samples directly at the highest
level of the multi, without having to deal with
instrument hierarchies and patches. Want to add a
sample to your song? Just drag & drop the sample
into Short Circuit 2 and you're ready to go. Samples
can be put in groups for multi-sampling and
kit-building, but the complexity is only there when
you need it.
Sound quality is another concern,
and Short Circuit 2 is using high-quality sinc-interpolation,
together with oversampling when upsampling, to
provide pitch-shifting without audible artefacts.
What this means in plain English is that a sample
played back at another pitch sounds like a sample
played back at another pitch, without any additional
muck.
Features:
Streamlined user interface for fast sample
management & editing.
Splendid audio quality while resampling.
Flexible selection of filters & effects.
Powerful modulation system, with the ability
to modulate itself as well as
loop-points in addition to the usual
destinations.
Envelope follower.
Stepsequencer/LFO combo.
Imports wav-files, AKAI S5000/S6000/Z4/Z8 .akp
banks and NI battery kits.
