鼓机进化了——Evolution 让你的字节里充满节奏！

1982年12月27日，18岁的我，一个刚刚萌生浪漫想法的年轻人，带着辛苦攒下的钱，走进了英国沃特福德一家名为”Vroom”的乐器店。很快，我就轻轻松松地掏出了150英镑，怀里抱着一台当时最先进的Soundmaster Stix ST305鼓机。

我告诉你这些，并非为了炫耀我的年龄（虽然现在暴露了年龄确实很尴尬，但坦白自己是新浪漫主义者肯定更尴尬！），而是想表达我对鼓机的长期热爱，以及为什么那一天会深深地印在我的脑海里。

像我们许多人一样，在接下来的几年里，我也用过不少硬件节奏盒。如今，千禧年已经过去18年了，我对人工节奏的偏爱依然存在，只是现在我完全转向了软件乐器，它们占用的空间更小，而且你永远不需要清理它们！

随着音频质量的提升，鼓采样库自然也越来越好，随着我们钟爱的NKS格式的出现，市场上也涌现出了一些有趣且混合的节奏产品。

市面上涌现出许多著名的节奏盒，从Native Instruments的Battery到Heavyocity的电影级杰作”Damage”，以及介于两者之间的各种音乐类型，涵盖了Glitch、Trap、Dubstep，甚至一些我可能从未听说过的音乐……又一次提到了”年代”！

当我听说 Wave Alchemy 推出了一款革命性的，或者说是革命性的全新鼓引擎，并且兼容 NKS 时，我的兴趣被激发了，我知道我必须进一步研究，于是又一篇 NKS 访问评测应运而生。

Wave Alchemy 是一家位于英国的小型音色库开发商，其产品专注于鼓音色内容。他们从提供各种格式的传统鼓采样包发展到现在，完全兼容 Kontakt 和 Komplete Kontrol，并拥有自己成熟的定制用户界面。

The Drum Machine has Evolved – Evolution puts beats in your bytes!

It was on December 27th 1982 when as an 18 year old new romantic, I walked into a music store called ‘Vroom’ in Watford in the UK, with a bunch of hard saved money, and then left soon after £150.00 lighter with an at that time state of the art Soundmaster Stix ST305 drum machine cradled lovingly under one arm.

Now I haven’t told you this just to demonstrate how old I am (although embarrassingly that has now been revealed, surely having confessed to being a new romantic is far worse !), but I wanted to demonstrate my longterm affection for drum machines, and as such why that day is etched in my mind.

Like many of us I’ve had my share of hardware beatboxes over the ensuing years and now some 18 years into the millennium my penchant for artificial beats is still with me, but has moved squarely into the realm of software instruments instead, they take up far less room and you never need to dust them!.

Drum sample librries have naturally got progressively better as audio quality has increased and with the advent of our beloved NKS format the market has yielded some interesting and mixed offerings in the beats department.

There have been many notable libraries ranging from Native Instruments own Battery to Heavyocity’s cinematic masterpiece ‘Damage’ and a host of genres inbetween which cater for the likes of Glitch, Trap, Dubstep and most probably some I’ve never heard of…. there’s that age reference again!

When I heard that Wave Alchemy had come up with a revolutionary or should I say evolutionary new drum engine that was NKS compatible, my interest was peaked and I knew I had to investigate further, thus another NKS access review is born.

Wave Alchemy are a small UK based library developer whose output has very much specialised in drum content, they have progressed from offering more conventional drum sample bundles in various formats, and now fully embrace both Kontakt and Komplete Kontrol with their own fully fledged bespoke user interfaces.

支持系统：Windows.MAC

加载方式：Kontakt 7 或Kontakt 8 版本加载

文件大小：4.3GB