Fanan team has released Yumbu 2 (successor of Yumbu), a slot driven drum sampler. They say:
Yumbu 2 delivers lightning speed drum-kits loading and fast one stage control, fitted for live usage. Now, with better control, both mp3 and WAV. format support, faster workflow and only 0.5 sec. loading times for new core kit.
The Sampler
Yumbu 2 uses 10 (.wav, mp3) file sample slots to build 10 drum components drum-kits. According to this approach, every slot can be anything, from kicks to snares or cymbals or you name it. Each slot is triggered by its own unique MIDI note which is noted on its slot button. The samples menu is divided into 14 categories, including a wide range of drum-kit components types. Each sample slot has room for the user's imported samples which can be added manually to the "user" folder. Yumbu 2 comes with 30 full drum-kits to start with.
Yumbu 2 has a built-in mixer that allows tweaking any sample separately. Users can use the EQ, change the pitch, add random pitch manipulation to every sample, pan and can use a pitch based round robin effect which has wide controllability on the final sound. The mixer is also armed with 3 master effects (compressor, reverb, delay) with a brand new effect called "F.R" which allows full scale frequency control over the wet signal. Users can use the effect by sending an fx amount from the "master fx" knob on every channel or can override the per cell sending and just send them directly to the master effect.
The Kit Manager
Yumbu 2 can set "sample start and "sample end" points with MIDI assignable knobs and it also allows users to tweak the active keyboard's octaves starting points. Yumbu 2 uses 24 presets drumkit banks. Each preset represents a full drumkit containing all the components and settings.
The Morph System
Yumbu 2 is armed with brand new morphing system which can blend any 2 drum elements together (which can create many new fresh drum sounds). The morph system can also play with the blended element's pitch and increase the invention of new drum sounds.
Special Channel's Modulation Effects
Each channel in Yumbu 2 is armed with dedicated modulation effects which allow adding nuances and textures to each drum element separately. There is a phaser effect, a delay and the new Zelda filter which can completely change the audio materials native character and morph it into a new sound.
Full features list:
- 10 drum sample slots per kit.
- 14 drum element banks with full 30 drum-kits that adjusted to wide range of pop and EDM genres.
- Morphing system for blending any 2 drum elements together.
- Automation file manager.
- 4 additional WAV. pages in the element menu for user's WAV. files.
- MIDI assignable start\end points manager.
- Master effects.
- Graphical MIDI keyboard with assignable keyboard starting points.
- Full virtual mixer with gain knobs, master effect send knobs, pitch knobs, random pitch manager knobs, round robin and pan knobs, master compressor, delay and reverb effects armed with a unique F.R. feature.
- MIDI route options (internal or sent to the DAW through MIDI channels).
- Scalable and customizable GUI.
- Dedicated modulation effects including phaser, delay and Zelda filter.
- "20 out mode" which separately outputs each drum element to its own channel in the DAW.
- Resizable GUI.
Price: Free.
