We’re broadening our sales strategy! (Gosh, that sounds almost like we know what we’re doing or something. Don’t be fooled.) Anyhoo, from now on, Rhythmic Robot instruments will be showing up on two other websites besides our own: KontaktHub and KVR. You may wonder why we’re bothering. Basically, it’s to reach customers who might otherwise never hear of us, so although we take a bit of a hit in terms of paying commission to the host sites, we (hopefully) end up on the…

We rather think you might not be able to. Check out the demo at about 4mins for some of the filthiest speaker-shredding viciousness ever to emerge from a bunch of tubes and wires. We utterly love this thing, it’s insane… Expect this to land like a malfunctioning Soviet spy satellite crashing in your back yard sometime in the next few weeks. You may want to stock up on earplugs…

Well, Silencio continues to sell and sell. (Seriously, guys, stop downloading Silencio!) Meanwhile, we’ve got our next batch of PatchVault instruments on the lab workbench and very nearly ready to ship. These are taken from the Korg PolySix and include both factory soundbanks – one was supplied on tape as an alternate set, but we’ve managed to get hold of it too 🙂 Should be ready in the next couple of weeks, so watch this space… In other news –…

Hi folks, We want to run something past you to see what you reckon. We now have quite a collection of cool hardware lurking in the lab – everything from a Jupiter 6 through some antique Korg goodies to shiny little DXs begging for attention. And all of them make awesome noises. Now, most of our instruments are firmly geared to giving you a ton of control. They’re basically fully-fledged synths that you can tweak and program and get thoroughly creative…

Some strings and brass to get you goin’! As we’ve said elsewhere, the Vol 2 selections of both Strings and Brass are smaller in number than those in Vol 1; but they’re done to a higher technical quality (for example, you’ll notice far fewer audible looping artefacts). They’re wonderfully evocative, characterful patches, with both subtle low-key numbers and full-throated roaring blazes 😀 We’ll try to get a few more demos up in the next week or so while we’re rolling…

Here we go – the first demo of our upcoming Emulator II Universe of Sounds Volume 2! The name’s a bit of a mouthful but the 500+ sounds more than make up for it… this library is geared more towards synths, keys and percussion than Vol 1, with some standout strings and brass as well – you get less of a variety of these, but the individual sounds are very rich and impeccably handled. It’s huge fun and very rewarding…

Short answer: a lot. Here are some sneak preview details: Emulator II Universe of Sounds – Volume 2 We’re almost done with the sampling on this, and it’s just fantastic: interestingly, the technical quality of Vol 2 is a generation ahead of Vol 1 – we’re noticing hardly any audible loop points, and the noise level has dropped down to the point where we’re considering not doing a NR pass. The library has a slightly different content emphasis too; we’re…

You may have gathered that the Summer Sale is now on! Head on over and grab yourself some well-earned savings. Meanwhile, here’s a little sneak peek preview of what’s coming your way next. Not sure how long it’ll take to get this out the door; we’re currently wrangling a tangled mess of samples, some of which are ridiculously crusty, dusty and scratched. But it’ll be cool when it hits. (The photo we used for our Summer Sale promo features one of…

Get yourself over to the Free Stuff page and grab a wad of Synth Wars trading cards – the must-have accessory that, according to some guy on GearSlutz, “rules”. Who are we to say different?

We have a launch date… and it’s only a week away! The amazing EII OMI Universe of Sounds library (volume 1) in all its glory will make its Kontakt debut on the 1st of July, timewarping over 500 patches from the mid-80s straight into your DAW. We’re also working on a big batch of Kontakt Multis to round out the collection, and these are coming on very nicely indeed: our patchmeister friends Anatol and Ed have been working away through…

The last batch of samples are now being recorded… there are over 500 individual instruments now sitting on our hard drive array! The next step will be individual tweaking of the instruments to make sure the loops are all neat and proper, and then some technical fiddling, and then we can start getting Kontakt presets and multis sorted out. (We can’t wait for that stage – it’s going to be huge fun combining and stacking some of these sounds. Fairlight…