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Spitfire Audio – Gaika – War Island £29

>As well as collaborating with many media-oriented composers, and recording instruments and ensembles of all sizes, Spitfire have a history of working with artists to develop a range of signature libraries at different levels of scale. ‘Gaika – WarFlanger and Phaser), with the Dynamics slider (mapped to the Mod Wheel) used for morphing between room and direct samples. Attack and Release provide some amplitude shaping, but it’s a shame that there isn’t anything else available for further tonal alteration, such as a filter of some kind. It would also have been nice to be able to see all parameter knobs simultaneously – as currently editing involves clicking on the relevant parameter box and then making an adjustment. This has been a criticism of mine in the past in relation to accessing performance articulations in larger Spitfire libraries – surely it makes sense to avoid unnecessary mouse clicks and multiple edit pages where possible (and when the onscreen GUI real estate is already available)?

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