Groove, the latest multi engine user oscillator from Sinevibes, is a multitimbral bass and drum machine and, according to the company, “the most complex and sophisticated multi engine plugin ever developed.”
Employing a network of 14 DSP blocks that work in real time, Sinevibes’ Groove allows users of the Minilogue XD, Prologue, or NTS-1 to turn their instrument into a groovebox. It maps bass, drum and percussion sounds onto seven different keyboard zones, turning your synthesizer into a kind of groovebox module. Each zone features a number of presets as well as controls to alter them. Sounds include bass, with chromatic tuning across two octaves, kick (also chromatically tuned), snares and toms/congas (tuned in four-semitone steps), as well as closed and open hats, shakers, zaps, and other assorted sci-fi noises.
Groove’s DSP engine includes three oscillators with sine, triangle, saw, and square waveforms, three exponential envelope generators, and a noise generator with two modes, white and shot. There’s also a modulation matrix, mixer, bit depth reduction, a state-variable filter with lowpass and highpass modes, clipping distortion, a comb filter, and an output stage with “unusually punchy dynamics,” according to Sinevibes.
Polyphony is determined by the host instrument, with the Prologue handling 16 or eight voices and the Minilogue XD four voices. The NTS-1 is monophonic. All notes can be triggered sequentially, even with only one voice.
Groove also has trigger probability. Each sound appears in two versions: one with 100% trigger probability and one with 50% probability. This allows for a degree of randomization when programming beats and basslines.
Groove is a user oscillator that loads into a multi engine-equipped Korg device, such as a Prologue, Minilogue VD, or NTS-1.
Groove is available now from Sinevibes for $59.