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支持系统：Windows.MAC

音源厂商：https://www.wavealchemy.co.uk/product/triaz/

使用采样器：Kontakt 7 或Kontakt 8 版本加载

文件大小：4.3GB

Wave Alchemy – Evolution

鼓机进化了——Evolution 让你的字节里充满节奏！

1982年12月27日，18岁的我，一个刚刚萌生浪漫想法的年轻人，带着辛苦攒下的钱，走进了英国沃特福德一家名为"Vroom"的乐器店。很快，我就轻轻松松地掏出了150英镑，怀里抱着一台当时最先进的Soundmaster Stix ST305鼓机。

我告诉你这些，并非为了炫耀我的年龄（虽然现在暴露了年龄确实很尴尬，但坦白自己是新浪漫主义者肯定更尴尬！），而是想表达我对鼓机的长期热爱，以及为什么那一天会深深地印在我的脑海里。

像我们许多人一样，在接下来的几年里，我也用过不少硬件节奏盒。如今，千禧年已经过去18年了，我对人工节奏的偏爱依然存在，只是现在我完全转向了软件乐器，它们占用的空间更小，而且你永远不需要清理它们！

随着音频质量的提升，鼓采样库自然也越来越好，随着我们钟爱的NKS格式的出现，市场上也涌现出了一些有趣且混合的节奏产品。

市面上涌现出许多著名的节奏盒，从Native Instruments的Battery到Heavyocity的电影级杰作"Damage"，以及介于两者之间的各种音乐类型，涵盖了Glitch、Trap、Dubstep，甚至一些我可能从未听说过的音乐……又一次提到了"年代"！

创新

当我听说 Wave Alchemy 推出了一款革命性的，或者说是革命性的全新鼓引擎，并且兼容 NKS 时，我的兴趣被激发了，我知道我必须进一步研究，于是又一篇 NKS 访问评测应运而生。

Wave Alchemy

Wave Alchemy 是一家位于英国的小型音色库开发商，其产品专注于鼓音色内容。他们从提供各种格式的传统鼓采样包发展到现在，完全兼容 Kontakt 和 Komplete Kontrol，并拥有自己成熟的定制用户界面。

Revolution 之前的音色库支持 14 款经典鼓机，并且也支持 NKS；而 Evolution 则极大地扩展了采样内容，并进一步提升了界面的可能性。

规格

Evolution 占用 4.57GB 硬盘空间，拥有超过 28,000 个采样音色和超过 400 个预设。安装非常简单，直接下载 3 个 RAR 文件，解压后放在一个 Evolution 文件夹中即可（无需费力寻找无法访问的下载器！）。之后，只需通过 Kontakt 的添加库功能添加音色库，将序列号粘贴到 Native Access 中，然后浏览到 Evolution 文件夹，在 Komplete Kontrol Standalone 中重新扫描，即可开始使用！

时间投入

有些音色库几乎可以在一个小时左右的时间内深入学习，而 Evolution 则完全符合我的"洋葱皮产品"的定义。表面上看，它简单易懂，很容易被归类为"平庸之作"，但随着时间的推移，我发现它越来越独特、创新，而且非常容易上手。事实上，这篇评测的撰写时间比我预期的要长，因为我似乎在不断尝试中获得了太多乐趣！

我第一次阅读规格说明书时，发现里面有超过400个鼓组，然后发现四个库里的鼓组预设名称重复了，我当时就草率地得出结论，这可能意味着只有100个预设，但是为了提高规格，库里又重新计算了一遍。我真是大错特错，我为自己的妄自菲薄感到羞愧。后来我亲自数了一下，发现每个库里实际上大约有468个鼓组，而且每个库里都有重复的鼓组名称，所以实际上有超过1850个鼓组，每个库都应用了4种不同的音效处理。哦，对了，我忘了说还有第五个"乐器"库，里面贴心地包含了10个主要鼓组类型的初始版本。

字节中的节拍

Evolution 是一个非常像beatbox风格的音色库，旨在让你能够创作和发展自己的鼓音色。你不会找到像 Abbey Road 系列那样超逼真的原声鼓组模拟，其内容由数百种经典鼓机和打击乐合成器音色组成，此外还有各种拾音、拟音和实验性音色。用 Wave Alchemy 自己的话来说，这些采样内容是他们五年多来倾注心血打造的。

Wave Alchemy – Evolution

The Drum Machine has Evolved – Evolution puts beats in your bytes!

It was on December 27th 1982 when as an 18 year old new romantic, I walked into a music store called 'Vroom' in Watford in the UK, with a bunch of hard saved money, and then left soon after £150.00 lighter with an at that time state of the art Soundmaster Stix ST305 drum machine cradled lovingly under one arm.

Now I haven't told you this just to demonstrate how old I am (although embarrassingly that has now been revealed, surely having confessed to being a new romantic is far worse !), but I wanted to demonstrate my longterm affection for drum machines, and as such why that day is etched in my mind.

Like many of us I've had my share of hardware beatboxes over the ensuing years and now some 18 years into the millennium my penchant for artificial beats is still with me, but has moved squarely into the realm of software instruments instead, they take up far less room and you never need to dust them!.

Drum sample librries have naturally got progressively better as audio quality has increased and with the advent of our beloved NKS format the market has yielded some interesting and mixed offerings in the beats department.

There have been many notable libraries ranging from Native Instruments own Battery to Heavyocity's cinematic masterpiece 'Damage' and a host of genres inbetween which cater for the likes of Glitch, Trap, Dubstep and most probably some I've never heard of…. there's that age reference again!

INNOVATION

When I heard that Wave Alchemy had come up with a revolutionary or should I say evolutionary new drum engine that was NKS compatible, my interest was peaked and I knew I had to investigate further, thus another NKS access review is born.

Wave Alchemy

Wave Alchemy are a small UK based library developer whose output has very much specialised in drum content, they have progressed from offering more conventional drum sample bundles in various formats, and now fully embrace both Kontakt and Komplete Kontrol with their own fully fledged bespoke user interfaces.

Revolution their previous library gave access to 14 classic drum machines and is also NKS ready, Evolution extends the sample content greatly and increases the ppossibilities of the interface still further.

Specifications

Evolution occupies 4.57Gb on a hard drive and boasts more than 28,000 sample sounds and over 400 presets. Installation was easy with the direct download of 3 RAR files which unpack into a single Evolution folder (no inaccessible downloaders to wrestle with!). After that it was a simple matter of adding the library through Kontakt's add library, pasting in the serial code into Native Access and then browsing to the Evolution folder and rescanning in Komplete Kontrol Standalone and you're in business!

Time Investment

Some libraries you can pretty much dive into and learn within an hour or so, Evolution was very much what I term an 'onion skin product', on the surface it appears straightforward and could easily be written off as 'run of the mill', however with the investment of time I found more and more things about it that were unique, innovative and pretty accessible, in fact the review took longer than I anticipated to write as I seemed to be having way too much fun experimenting!

When I first read the spec and saw there were over 400 kits, then noticed that the kit preset names had been duplicated in each of the four banks, I hastily jumped to the conclusion that this probably meant there were only 100 presets but they were being counted again in the banks to bump up the specs, how wrong I was and I feel ashamed of my presumptiousness. I then physically counted them and found that there were in fact around 468 kits in each bank, and these were duplicated for each bank, so there are actually over 1850 with 4 variations in sound treatments being applied to each of the banks. Oh and I neglected to mention that there is a fifth 'Instruments' bank which thoughtfully includes 10 initialised versions of the main kit types.

Beats in the Bytes

Evolution is very much a beatbox style library, the intent is to enable you to create and evolve your own drum sounds. You won't find ultra realistic acoustic kit emulations such as those in the Abbey Road series, the content is made up of literally hundreds of classic drum machine and percussive synth sounds, as well as found, foley and experimental content. In Wave Alchemy's own words the sample content has been a labour of love for over 5 years.