XLN Audio XO 自动鼓点插件
Having democratised the acoustic drum kit ROMpler with Addictive Drums 2, Swedish developer XLN Audio is looking to make their mark in the electronic percussion arena with their latest release, XO.
Its innovative, ambitious sample browser and inviting step sequencer certainly grab attention, but is there substance behind all that style?
The final frontier
To kick off with a very big number, XO (VST/AU/ AAX/Standalone) houses over 8000 richly varied and largely excellent one-shot drum and percussion samples. Adding your own (they don’t have to be drums, natch), however, is as simple as selecting as many folders on your hard drive as you like in the import dialogue, upon which their contents are scanned and fully integrated into XO’s library. This huge aggregated sample pool is navigated within the XO Space, a zoomable, scrollable ‘constellation’ interface, in which every sample is represented as a coloured dot by instrument type (red for kicks, blue for
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