Tim Exile gives the Finger
By Paul Dakeyne
| Posted in Music Technology
Who’s Tim Exile? A ground breaking artist renowned for his expert use of behemoth music software ‘Reaktor’, broken beats specialist, musician and computer music innovator. Reaktor itself has been viewed as a monstrously difficult VSTi to master, but this amazingly talented artist has created and passed to us lesser mortals a bespoke patch from his repertoire and has shaped it into a stand alone and plug-in version to be used and abused with literally one digit of your hand – and so it’s names.. ‘The Finger‘.
Primarily a live performance effect and powered by a free Kore player, sounds can be looped, reversed, scratched, filtered, reverb’d, granulized, bullet edited(!).. hey, the sky’s the limit here. Exile likens the individual effects planted on each key of your midi keyboard to an un-connected array of individual effect boxes, where one can be chained to another, then another, and up to 6.. all with that ‘finger’.
The online introduction video shows Tim mashing up some beats, granulating a guitar, looping up his vocal, and generally transforming contemporary audio samples into other worldly delights. From what I’ve seen so far, it’s reminding me very much of Digidesign’s Transfuser plug-in.
And speaking of plug-ins, ‘Finger’, as well as the stand alone Kore player version, can integrate as an insert in your favourite DAW, ultimately giving visually editable control over rhythmic effects, synced of course to the song’s tempo.
Currently only available to purchase from NI’s online store, this is a fine example of the ‘cutting edge’ handing a slice of its pie over to the ‘mainstream’ – and thankfully so. It’s major props then to such forward thinking artists like Mr Exile for bestowing some of his genius in our direction – play time awaits!
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