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In 1984 Dave Smith and his team at Sequential Circuits released the Six-trak which was one of the first instruments not only to feature the then new MIDI control system but was an early multitimbral offering. This was quite a technically advanced feature to be seen on what was a relatively affordable synthesizer in those days.
Although everyone knows that Dave Smith is a master of analog synthesizer design, whilst working on his designs, Loot Audio was often left thinking that in fact he really should be better praised for his programming skills!
Fitting a whole multi-timbral synth control system with patch recall, an arpeggiator, a sequencer, a stack facility and an extremely full midi CC implementation into a humble Z80 microcontroller running at 4MHz with its code residing on one tiny 16Kbyte EPROM is really quite an accomplishment!
Polysynth
Loot Audio was quite surprised by what they managed to get out of what on paper is quite a humble 1-OSC per voice polysynth. Loot Audio think there are a few reasons for this – firstly they found the Six-trak to have quite a dark nature to its sound and the filters are great with the whole self-oscillation thing launching it into sometimes complete instability but on other occasions rendering bells and percussive sounds aplenty. The way the VCAs are also set up permits the filter to be somewhat overdriven which adds another dimension to its sound.
The decision was made to capture almost all of the material directly from the Six-Trak as the instrument has quite a warm nature right out of the box. A small handful of the patches were post-processed by feeding the audio through the wonderful triple chorus stage of the 1972 Eminent 310U to impart an extremely rich texture.
It is worth noting, as with all of Loot Audio's sampled vintage synth collection, that although the raw captured material is totally authentic many of the instruments in the library explore many new avenues. That said, Loot Audio think many would be quite surprised what I managed to conjure out of this little wonder.
Features
- 871 24-bit Samples
- 69 Example Instruments
- 31 Example Layered Multis
System Requirements
- Full Kontakt 4.2.4 or above
Important Note: Full version of NI Kontakt 4.2.4 and above is required. Will not function with the free NI Kontakt Player.
Please Note:
- Pulse Downloader is used to download the software and must be installed.
- El Dorado: Legato Ambient Guitar is used as an example.
Mac
1. Visit the Pulse Downloader website by clicking the El Dorado: Legato Ambient Guitar 'Download' link in your Plugin Boutique User Account or by clicking HERE, and download the correct installer for your system (either 'OS X or later' or 'M1 System').
2. Open the downloaded file and run the installer 'Pulse-XX.X.X.dmg'.
3. Drag 'Pulse' to 'Applications'.
4. Log in to your Pulse account, or create a new account by clicking 'Register' at the bottom of the window.
5. If registering, input your email and password, agree to the terms of use and click 'Register'.
6. Click the '+ Add a Product' button located in the top right-hand corner of the window.
7. Copy and paste your serial number from your My Account page, click 'Install Now', then click 'Redeem'.
8. Select a location for Pulse to download the software by clicking the file icon on the right-hand side of the window.
9. Select the location you would like your software to download and install to.
10. Click 'Download and Install'.
11. The instrument is now downloading.
12. Once the instrument has finished downloading, open Kontakt, then open the 'Files' tab and navigate to the location that you downloaded the Kontakt Library to. Then click and drag the .nki file into the empty window.
Your Kontakt instrument is now installed and ready to use.
Windows
1. Visit the Pulse Downloader website by clicking the El Dorado: Legato Ambient Guitar 'Download' link in your Plugin Boutique User Account or by clicking HERE, and download using the 'Download for Windows' link.
2. Open the downloaded file and run the installer 'Pulse Web Setup X.X.X.exe'.
2. Log in to your Pulse account, or create a new account by clicking 'Register' at the bottom of the window.
3. If registering, input your email and password, agree to the terms of use and click 'Register'.
4. Click the '+ Add a Product' button located in the top right-hand corner of the window.
5. Copy and paste your serial number from your My Account page, click 'Install Now', then click 'Redeem'.
6. Select a location for Pulse to download the software by clicking the file icon on the right-hand side of the window.
7. Select the location you would like your software to download and install to.
8. Click 'Download and Install'.
9. The instrument is now downloading.
10. Once the instrument has finished downloading, open Kontakt, then open the 'Files' tab and navigate to the location that you downloaded the Kontakt Library to. Then click and drag the .nki file into the empty window.
Your Kontakt instrument is now installed and ready to use.
