The Mouth Review - Native Instruments And Tim Exile

The Mouth is a completely unique way to express your creative musical ideas. Well, personally I was in great need of such music recording software and may be that is why I am so excited about the Mouth. This virtual instrument is the result of another colaboration of Native Instruments and Tim Exile. The result of the first colaboration was The Finger – another wonderful software I am going to write a review of soon. I wanted to review some of the basic features of The Mouth.

The first and may be the most important thing about The Mouth is that it is incredibly easy to use. It creates all the comfort I lacked so much on rehearsals or any kind of live performance. I completely agree with Tim Exile, who says that you do not have to be a KEYNIUS to be a GENIUS ! The Mouth is yet another validation of this phrase. 

So what can you exactly do with this exciting software. You can give any kind of audio to The Mouth whether you sing, give some synthesizer sounds, or even drum loops and beatbox it does not matter, and you are ready to go. When I said that you do not have to be a KEYNIUS I meant that you really do not need to know how to play keyboards. All you need is just a midi keyboard and everything is fine. By using this software the pitch of the sound, you gave earlier to The Mouth, is detected and the software auto-tunes the sound to a musical scale according to a notes received from a MIDI device. This means that you have just to press one key on your keyboard and the sound you gave to The Mouth gets automatically tuned to the corresponding musical scale. If you press another key on your MIDI device the sound will automatically get tuned to another musical scale. This means that your sound will always remain tuned. 

I personally found the interface of The Mouth quite user friendly. At first it seemed a bit confusing, but after I saw the video, which comes right below this post (I advise you to see it), I understood how to use it in a comfortable manner.

Internally there are four generators that are responsible for crafting the desired sound: Input, Synth, Bass and Vocoder. The mixer section is simple and there are 5 faders which are to manage everything. The mixer comes with a master FX section as well. That means that you can add additional characteristics yo your sound.  Each of the for generators contains numerous sounds (totally 118), which can be easily selected using the preset matrix.

 

8 performance control knobs are just another feature I liked about The Mouth. These knobs alter both the amplitude and the sound at once. It makes shaping the sound, adding additional harmonies easier.

One last thing I want to mention in my The Mouth Review is its Beats Mode. This mode enables you to generate the excitingly arppegiated sound of the drum patterns that you give to the software. 

Oh, and I almost forgot to say that The Mouth can be used in the free REAKTOR 5 PLAYER, or in the full version of REAKOT 5.5, which gives you possibility to explore all the insides of this software.

KOMPLETE 7 - NATIVE INSTRUMENTS - REVIEW

Native Instruments has released KOMPLETE 7, which, without exaggeration, is a KOMPLETE that has never been so complete yet. New Komplete 7 includes 24 groundbreaking instruments and effects and comes with 90 GB sound sample. With production-ready sounds, which are now 10 000 in KOMPLETE 7, you have endless possibilities in all the genres and styles. 

The new Komplete 7 includes all the renowned brand products like Guitar Rig, Kontakt, Reaktor, FM 8 and so on. Well let’s start with the updated REAKTOR 5.5. This new REAKTOR is completely based on the successful predecessor and has some additional features. The thing that you notice at the very first glance is its new design. In fact the design of REAKTOR has always been inconvenient in some sense. But the new REAKTOR design managed to make creating and using instruments more intuitive and easier. Beside design, two more techniques of synthesis have been added in the engine. These techniques (modal and additive) enable creating even more modification of instruments, even more sounds and effects !  The first new instrument which uses the new additive synthesis technique is contributed from the makers of MASSIVE and is called LAZERBASS. 

The new KOMPLETE 7 also includes KONTAKT 4, which is a famous software sample, which gives you possibility to tweak your samples without any limitations and offers incredibly flexible sound architecture.

Guitar Rig 4 Pro is another sofware in the Komplete 7. This wonderful music recording software is also based on its predecessor and has some additional features as well. Guitar Rig now comes with 15 bass and guitar amps. They were all modeled using NI’s award winning DTRT (Dynamic Tube Response Technology). This enables Guitar Rig 4 Pro’s virtual amps to deliver all the feel, character and charm of their real counterparts. Beside it, Guitar Rig 4 Pro gives you possibility to setup harmonizzed speakers for each amp.

Komplete 7 also includes THE FINGER, which was originally derived from the Tim Exile live setup. Although it’s an effects pack unit, you can use it like a musical instrument as it gives possibility to be played as a musical instrument.

RAMMFIRE an amazingly powerful virtual amplifier, which is the result of Rammstein’s Richard Z. Kruspe’s collaboration with NI. This wonderful music recording software delivers all the power your guitar may need !

Komplete 7 also includes 12 most popular effects from the TRAKTOR PRO effects pack under the title TRAKTOR’s 12.

Scarbee MM-Bass, also included in KOMPLETE 7, brings the feel of 1970s funk and disco right at your fingertips.

Another music recording software in KOMPLETE 7 is REFLEKTOR – a reverb effect, which was made using ZERO LATENCY CONVOLUTION technology. 

Good Old Battery 3 is also included in KOMPLETE 7, with its vast 12 GB library.

Abbey Roads 60s Drums is also included in KOMPLETE 7.

Komplete 7 can not be without ABSYNTH 5. Those who have already used any predecessors of KOMPLETE which already included ABSYNTH, can verify that this semi-modular synthesizer really gives endless possibilities.

MASSIVE is another music recording software in KOMPLETE 7. This synthesizer is quite heavyweight one. You can get anything from creamy analog sounds to brute force audio from it.

REAKTOR PRISM is another innovation introduced in KOMPLETE 7. It is an amazing polyphonic instrument which is based on groundbreaking “Modal Bank” module.

FM 8. Well if you have used any previous KOMPLETEs you would have already get known with this woderful synthesizer.

 Innovations, innovations, innovations ! REAKTOR SPARK ! This unique REAKTOR ensemble, on which REAKTOR SPARK is based, was developed by Stephan Schmitt – NI founder  - himself. 

KOMPLETE 7 also includes ACOUSTIC REFRACTIONS. It is probably the most interesting part of this new music recording software. ACOUSTIC REFRACTIONS instruments have unique sounds which have been sampled from quite unusual sources like washing machin, ice, the Golden Gate Bridge etc.

KOMPLETE 7 continues the tradition of KOMPLETEs to contain acoustic pianos. KOMPLETE 7 comes with NEW YOUR CONCERT GRAND, VIENNA CONCERT GRAND, BERLIN CONCERT GRAND and UPRIGHT PIANO.

KOMPLETE 7 also includes VINTAGE ORGANS. These virtual versions of five legendary organs manage to deliver the feel and character of their originals.

KOMPLETE 7 also includes three electric pianos SCARBEE MARKI, a legend from 70s with its wonderful sound preserved incredibly, SCARBEE CLAVINET/PIANET, a mixture of the sounds of two iconic electric pianos and SCARBEE A-200 just mm… classics !

YOU HAVE A WONDERFUL POSSIBILITY OF GETTING KOMPLETE 7 FOR RECORD-BREAKING LOW PRICE 499$