A Whole Band Of Synthetic Junk Yard Percussion

US Ugo releases Ironhead:Spawn with 13 Individual Morphing Plug-Ins 15/07/09

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Ugo has released Ironhead:Spawn v1.0, described as a 13 Plug-in Morphing Synthetic Junk Yard Instrument Bundle. The package includes Tunguska at no additional cost. Here's all the details from Ugo...
Meet the Spawn of Ironhead! Going well beyond the original Ironhead, the Spawn plugs have been mutated and modified to provide a far wider range of percussive and melodic sounds, and they can be played like normal synths...tracking pitch across the entire keyboard. If you like tuned percussion, you're going to love this.
Ironhead is drum kit...Ironhead:Spawn is a whole band.
Easy Interface
The interface of the Ironhead series has been built to provide a simple set of controls that make it fast, easy, and fun to use. With Ironhead:Spawn (just as with the original Ironhead) you can get to a cool and interesting percussion sound quickly, without having to get too caught up in all the synth programming details of how to get there.
Synthetic Junkyard Percussion
The Ironhead:Spawn plugs have been designed to provide sounds that will likely be different from the other percussion sources you have (of course, that is, unless you own Ironhead) thus increasing the chances of you finding something that will spice up your tracks, while minimizing the chances of overlap with your existing synths and samples. This lets the synths work well not just as a primary percussion sources, but also as a secondary sources for layering with loops and other drum synths, or even be used as melodic instruments.
Ironhead's sound is best thought of as synthetic junk percussion and the 13 instruments in the Spawn bundle are named after the types of sounds they produce. They can go from familiar drum/percussion sounds to wild sweeps, thumps, knocks, smacks, clangs, and bangs, to basses, bells and even synthetic plugs...and always with their own unique character.
Morphing & Variance
To add further life and movement to your grooves, Each of the Spawn plugs offers two types of modulation: Morphing and Variance.
Morphing allows you move between two different control states. The results can be anything from just a quick jump to a different sound, to subtle shifts and sweeps, to wild experimental sounds. Morphing can be controlled via BPM synced LFO, the mod wheel on your keyboard / midi CC, VST automation, or just with your mouse.
The Variance feature allows you to set an adjustable degree of random variation in the sound. With this function turned on, each hit to that drum will sound randomly different. Lower settings provide subtle variations that are useful for making grooves feel less repetitious, while higher settings can provide dramatically different sounds that are fun for fills and experimental purposes.
Features:

Fast, fun, and easy interface
13 unique sounding percussion instruments
Morphing (controled by LFO, automation, MIDI)
Random variance
Dual delays (BPM sync with dotted notes)
Randomizers
Over 40 presets in each, totaling over 540 presets in the bundle
Presets by:

antoine.bertier
Musical Gym
robenstobenz
rsmus7
Ugo
Pricing and Availability:
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