Yo what’s good fam! Back with another Big Fish Friday.
Today I’m checking out Sequence, their Hip Hop drum sequencer/creator
What is Sequence?
It’s a Kontakt library dedicated to drum and percussion patterns, kits, and samples.
You get plenty of control over the sequence, the fx, individual drums, the kits, rolls, pitched 808, etc.
It has a custom interface that is powerful yet simple to use, as everything just makes sense.
They really aimed to make this a one stop shop for drum production.
Quick Specs
- content: 4000+ samples, 40 kit presets, 40 pattern presets
- format: Kontakt and Kontakt Player 5
- price: $99.95
- link: http://www.bigfishaudio.com/Sequence-Hip-Hop-Beat-Creator
How does it sound?
The variety and quality of drum and percussion here is really well done. I personally expected it to cater only to current trap/pop style sounds…so wasn’t sure how much mileage I could get.
Once I dug into the menus and kits, I found that everything is covered from 808 and synthetic sounds, to straight up acoustic, raw boom bap, and layered creative sounds.
They also included some really great sounding percussion samples for that extra spice.
I’m not a huge 808 guy, but they have some dope sounding 808 samples in here and the control you have over the sound to tweak it to taste is really quick but effective.
Overall I think the sound quality is where it should be, and the diversity of sound was a pleasant surprise for me personally
So what’s the bottom line?
If you use Kontakt, or like using drum libraries with your keyboard controller this is definitely one to check out.
Heck, even if you don’t, at this price, if you’re a drum head then you should check it out anyway!
I give Sequence 4.5 out of 5 subs, the quality is great, the flexibility is pretty deep, and the interface is super intuitive.
I’d like to see them improve the sequencer a bit, maybe throw in some nudge/delay options in the sequencer, as well as roll per step, etc, along with the ability to drag MIDI patterns out into your host and the ability to record directly into Sequence in real time. I think a few additions can really make this instrument even more powerful than it already is.
Even just as a drum and percussion module, the amount of sounds and how quickly you can tweak along with the features like the pitched 808 and the roll creator make this joint a workhorse.
Definitely one to check out in my opinion.
Let me know what you think!
This looks pretty cool!!!
Thanks for watching!
hey bro I have sequencer,swag, there in my native access with the imported serial I just need the library. it seems difficult to download from mvploops and big fish.i have mvploops the beast aries and sound platoon. I cant seem to download ound platoon at all. do you have any advice bro?
Not sure, I’d say contact each of them directly and let them know of the issue, they should be able to get you new download links.
Love the simple interfaces with lots of firepower under the hood. Sure takes BF a long time for their name stuff to come out to us. Always worth the wait-though! Hope this works well with my new mpc live.
Yeah man, nice interface for sure! Thanks for watching. How you liking the Live?
I love it being so powerful and fully mobile like my dusty beat thang.
I’m experimenting with midi’ing rhe beat thang with the mpc live doing a demo for somebody without using a midi keyboard.
Dope man, yeah I like the mobile idea. I still pull out the BT for that as well, so the Live is very interesting for sure!
Hey saintjoe would this work with protools 10 and does it pull up as an RTAS. Thanks
It runs in Kontakt, I’m not sure if the latest version of Kontakt runs as rtas or only aax for pro tools.