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Brushed Percussion
Borsta is a new innovative percussion instrument specially designed for strokes and brushes. Its unique audio engine allows for an endless number of truly natural-sounding brushing phrases and rhythms. What sets Borsta apart from similar instruments is that its audio engine supports continuous changes in intensity. This makes it possible to create very life-like brushing phrases and patterns, something that can't be achieved with traditional sample-based instruments.
The parallel envelope and events sequencers allow 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, all instruments also offers multi-sampled one-shots with advanced choking capabilities. Each instrument is based on more than 400 high-quality samples, recorded for playing with different velocities and round robins.
Borsta emulates a single drum instrument at a time, but comes with 18 different instruments to choose between. The sequences are 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.
The instruments are all 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. Borsta is a Swedish verb, meaning ”to brush”.
Features
- 18 high-quality instruments with 6 multi-sampled one shots each
- 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
- 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
System Requirements
- macOS 10.10 or later (optimized for the M1-processor)
- Windows 7 SP1 or later
- AU, VST-2, VST-3, AAX
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