YouTube Killed The Now Wave Star

Seemingly driven by a desire to obliterate the boundaries between electronic music and live performance, Tim Exile injects a true sense of un-predictability into his music. Having released numerous tracks on Moving Shadow, Planet Mu and now Warp Records, where his latest album "The Listening Tree" has been receiving rave reviews, it's arguably his live show that fully encapsulates the essence of his tweaked-out, mashed-up, mutant pop music.

Tim writes songs or tracks on his instrument as performances where every single sound is performed, not just played back, like songwriters write songs on a guitar. The performance, the vibe, the action, comes first... the recording comes later. Utilising his self-created Reaktor set-up, he continually manages to create, twist and
tweak unrepeatable sets, all shot through with his wry sense of humor.

"I've always been into the idea of playing electronics like you play acoustic instruments. I used to sit at the back of class at school tapping out jungle breaks and edits. That's when I fell in love with my fingers. I want to be able to touch sounds with them. Not just read adverts about touching sounds with them. I want to go on sound adventures by finger alone. Just a pair of handpants in my palmsack."

The Finger is not so much a release as an explosion. It's a 4-track EP and it's a playable live effects software created by Native Instruments for producers, performers or anyone else who wants to get their dutty hands on the sound.

The Finger EP includes four tracks taken from live performances, using Tim's own live setup and The Finger software, with some of the tracks remixed & rearranged in the studio.

The Finger software is opening up new ways for intuitive sound mangling, live remixing, and advanced tempo-synced effects processing - in the studio or on stage. And since it is powered by the free Kore Player, everybody can immediately use this outstanding multi-effect tool.

It provides more than 40 effects including real-time samplers/transformers (e.g. loop, re-arrange, reverse, scratch, heavy granular effects etc.), as well as filters, gaters, delays, reverbs, distortion, wave shapers, ring modulation and many others. Each effect has two parameters controlled by velocity or mod wheel, and is tempo-synced to a master clock or the tempo of your audio host. The Kore Player user interface allows for even further tweaking via the Macro Controls.

The main advantage is the ability to trigger effects via MIDI keyboard (or the "piano roll" in a sequencer). Four octaves of MIDI notes have a specific effect per sound with their own settings assigned to each. The order you trigger the notes is the order the effects get layered in, so chains can be arranged and re-arranged in no time. Make the last key a loop effect, and you can continue the chain from there, endlessly. This allows you to "play" and improvise with effects just like with a "real" instrument. When used within a host sequencer as an effects plug-in, you can record your playing as MIDI in the piano roll editor allowing to edit your effect chains in a much simpler way.

The potential for creative audio mayhem is pretty much inexhaustible, and it has never been more fun - that is the power of The Finger.

"I love it when sounds end up somewhere completely different from where they start off. I want to be able to play these transitions with my fingers & keep wandering with the sound. I don't want to end up back where I started. I don't wanna be on a leash like a goat chewing the same patch of grass all day. I want to be a free goat. I wanna check out what that weird mountain over there is like to be on not just look at."

Besides the possibility to use NI's The Finger out of the box (with the free Kore Player or Kore 2), it can also be loaded into Reaktor 5, where an individual user interface is available allowing you to setup custom effects to any MIDI note (see image to the left, also featured in the product video).

"With The Finger you can keep on transforming the sound as long as you like. You don't have to go back home after one or two effects, wide awake and cursing your curfew. Just keep on applying effects, looping, mangling, smoothing, modulating until the cows come home, and all with those lovely fleshy pokey-hitty fingers of yours. Pull them fingers out and throw 'em in the wild."

The Finger EP is available for free download from Tim's blog.


For more informations:

http://thenowwave.blogspot.com

http://www.native-instruments.com

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Tim Exile
• Native Instruments
• Reaktor
• Kore
• Kore Player
• The Finger
• The Finger EP

[fabs1289]

whats the effect at 1:57



[purptrain90]

ive watched this probably fifty times and its never not fucking awesome!

[BreezyHawk]

Cheezy Krust! That's very cool.  :-D

[tux2007]

NICE!!

[synkuk]

Cheese and Rice !

Very impressive .. especially the buildup

Synk