Features/Specifications
The RM IV contains a range of features designed to make your music-making more
efficient and enjoyable. These features are described below:
drum synthesis and sample plugin for Mac OSX and PC.
Designed for drums but can be used for pitched samples as well.
The instrument is Multitimbral with each pad having its own MIDI channel.
True stereo sample playback and processing (all filters and effects are mono and
stereo).
Professional user interface providing direct access to controls with the minimum
number of mouse-clicks.
18 polyphonic Drum Pads.
Up to
32-voice polyphony (selectable per Drum Pad).
Multiple instances of the instrument can be opened.
A wide range of different Audio Generator modules which include:
An extensive selection of percussion synthesis modules.
A sophisticated percussion sampler module.
2 different Kick drum modules.
2 different Snare drum modules.
Open and Closed HiHat module
Tom module.
Clap module.
2 Cymbal modules
Plop Percussion module.
Each Drum Pad includes its own controls for Output Destination, Vol(ume)
, Pan,
(only if routed to a Stereo output), Tune (+- 24 semitones in 10 cent intervals),
Choke Group (
5 groups are available including prev/next and self-mute)
,
Polyphony (mono...8, full), Mute and Solo and
a
MIDI activity display
.
For each Drum Pad the user has access to a multi-mode AHDSR-controlled filter,
a Compressor with controls for Ratio, Threshold and Release, a "Varizer" with
controls for Style, Precision and Spectrum, a 6 x 6 Modulation Matrix and two
separate effects processors (Distortion and BitCrusher).
Drum Pad Displays automatically switch upon editing allowing exact adjustment of
level, pan and tuning and other parameters.
Each Sampler module can hold up to 30 samples that can be individually triggered.
Samples on each Drum Pad can have individual volume settings and can be
layered or velocity-switched or velocity-crossfaded.
Samples can be played forwards or backwards
.
Waveform Display which shows
Waveform, the effect of the Pitch Envelope,
Amplitude Envelope and Filter Envelope.
The Amplitude Envelope Release Time can be set to "endless", so that even long
samples won't be cut off.
Samples can be browsed while playing your music.
Kits can be browsed while playing your music.
Supported sample formats: WAV 8-32 bit, mono and stereo, any samplerate, AIF
8-24 bit, mono and stereo, any samplerate, WAV 32 bit float WAV, mono and
stereo, any sample rate.
Supported Kit Formats: RM IV, RM III, CM-505, RM 2, LM 4.
The file path to samples and kits is remembered for the next time you open the file
dialog.
RM IV user manual : version 1.1
page
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