Auto Fills Drum Fill Generator vs Borsta Usage & Stats
Auto Fills is a random MIDI generator app for creating drum fills for your drum synth apps or hardware synthesizers. It works as an Audio Unit AUv3 plugin with the supported host apps such as AUM, Loopy Pro, Logic Pro, Cubasis, Nanostudio, apeMatrix etc.
In Auto Fills, you are working with a drum kit. You can either create the kit by adding drum parts and assigning them MIDI notes/channels yourself, or you can select a kit templete from the settings menu for an app or hardware for quick setup.
- In Kit mode, you can assign a probability value to each drum part.
- In Velocity mode, you can assign a velocity to each drum part, and you can also introduce velocity variety for them.
- In Duration mode, you can set the drum fill length as well as the waiting time before and/or after the drum fill, in beats or bars.
- If you've set "wait before the fill" and/or "wait after the fill" durations in the Duration mode, the drum fill won't be played during the waiting periods.
If you have a favorite drum sequencer, you can route it through the Auto Fills, before the drum app, like
- Drum sequencer -> Auto Fills -> Drum App
And you can block the incoming MIDI from the drum sequencer during the drum fill.
You enable the option in the Duration mode by toggling "block incoming MIDI during the fill" option.
You also have an option for randomizing the drum fill on every cycle.
Assigning probability values is crucial in the Kit mode. If you want to hear a specific drum part mode, just increase it's probability. If you would like to hear a drum part less ofter, just decrease its probability. If you set a probability to zero, it won't play in the drum fill.
- Density knob leaves out notes from the drum if you decrease its value. It introduces rests in the drum fill without regenerating the fill.
- Voices knob sets the maximum number of drum parts can be played at the same time (polyphony). The algorithm chooses a value between 1 and the maximum voice count randomly on every step of the drum fill.
- Rate note sets the speed of the drum fill.
- Generate button lets you regenerate the drum fill. Changing the kit by adding/removing parts, probabilities and voice count also regenerates the fill automatically.
Auto Fills is a MIDI app and it does not produce it's own sound. You need to route Auto Fills MIDI out to an audio app's MIDI input in order to hear the voice.
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Borsta is a virtual drum and percussion instrument. What sets Borsta apart from similar instruments is that its audio engine supports a brushing feature that can simulate strokes and brushes with continuous changes in intensity. This makes it possible to create an endless number of very lifelike brushing phrases and rhythms, something that can’t be easily achieved with ordinary sample-based instruments.
The internal sequencer allows you to determine exactly when to start a stroke, how the stroke’s pressure/speed should evolve over time and when to end it. On top of that, each instrument offers a couple of multi-sampled one-shots with advanced choking capabilities.
The initial version of Borsta comes with 18 different instruments, but each instance of the plug-in emulates one single drum instrument at a time. That means the sequences can only be played one at a time. However, switching between sequences can be done seamlessly via MIDI, and additional one-shot samples can be triggered using an ordinary MIDI track.
Each instrument is structured and MIDI-mapped in a uniform way, which makes it possible to use the same sequence on any instrument. For instance, a traditional swing pattern will sound musically correct no matter whether you choose a Frame Drum, Tambourine or Snare Drum - it will just sound like the musician changed instruments.
Each instrument is based on more than 400 high-quality samples, recorded for playing with different velocities and round robins.
Features
• 18 high-quality instruments with 6 multi-sampled one shots each
• Continuous intensity changes on brushes and strokes
• 230 pre-made factory sequences
• 60 Global presets covering different sounds and genres
• Separate volume and velocity curve control of each sound type
• Room simulation (9 different rooms)
• Reverb with adjustable decay time (6 different algorithms)
• Timbre adjustment control (harmonics)
• Overall pitch
• Three band equalizer
Instruments
• Rusty Bucket
• Guira
• Pancake Drum
• Tambourine
• Frame Drum
• Pizza Box
• Cardboard Pipe
• Cajon
• Pandeiro
• Bakestone
• Cymbal Chains
• Snare Drum 1
• Snare Drum 2
• Snare Drum 3
• LOFI Snare Drum
• Metal Spade
• Djembe
• Iron Sticks
Borsta is available as both a standalone application and AUv3 plug-in. Its primary intended use is as an AUv3 with a DAW together with other instruments and sound sources.
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Auto Fills Drum Fill Generator VS. 
BorstaDecember 17, 2024