Genji Siraisi

I recently had the pleasure of creating some content for and beta testing Nerve; a new drum plug-in made by Steve Duda and Xfer Records. Steve was the creator of the excellent Lucifer and Minion plug-ins for Devine Machine and was also involved in creating BFD and GURU. He is also known as an artist, working with Deadmau5 and other high profile names such as Christina Aguilera, Nine Inch Nails and Tommy Lee. Nerve is a really interesting drum machine/sequencer that is designed to be both used live and in the studio. It accepts wav, aiffs and rex files and has some very unique ways of programming and modulating the sounds and sequences allowing you to really sculpt and completely destroy sounds to your liking. It also comes with a bunch of content to get started.I’ve been a really big fan of Lucifer (an all purpose performance mangler) which I’ve used in laptop performance for a few years now and that’s how I came into contact with Steve. I still haven’t nearly used all the features available in Lucifer and have plenty still to explore in Nerve!You can get a demo of Nerve here: http://www.xferrecords.com/and check out more about Steve Duda here:http://steveduda.com/Incidently, a while back I also created content for and beta tested Devine Machine’s OTR-88 (a Rhodes modeling plug in. Apparently, designed with some consultation with Herbie Hancock!) and Krishna a really cool synth plug in. Both of which I highly recommend.OTR-88 comes with a bunch of pedal emulations and even better allows you to make adjustments to each tine of the piano in very subtle and real world ways such as: vertical and horizontal symmetry and amplitude, pick up distance, stiffness and a bunch more including tuning for micro amounts!Krishna is also a very in depth synth it comes with loads of presets and it’s a good thing because programming it is not for the faint of heart. Very cool stuff.http://www.devine-machine.com/