The drums provide some useful hits across a variety of kits, while the pianos are a blend of very good and so-so. All of a sudden, Purity feels like an instrument of its time.įollowing this lot are the expected banks of virtual instruments - these are a bit of a mixed bag. In particular, there are some great growling and hoovering sounds for dance, and loads of riffs for electronica and trance. Luckily, however, the soundbank quickly improves, featuring some useful phrases and sequences that bring the workstation right up to date. So far, then, all we've seen from Purity are 90s hardware keyboard features that really should have been left in the past. These are OK, but we think that most people will skip past them relatively quickly. This includes a bunch of split keyboard arrangement presets and is filled with phrases and accompaniments in a variety of styles (such as dance, drum 'n' bass, mid step and Latin). That said, there's another love it or loathe it bank called 'Motive'. You either loved this standard set of instruments, synths and sound effects or you hated it, but thankfully the world has moved on and Purity also comes stuffed to the gills with other sounds. It has the silvery white sheen of a Yamaha or Korg and you'll soon stumble across is the General MIDI sounds that were so ubiquitous in 90s music technology that virtually every piece of sonic hardware featured them. The Purity interface feels like an amalgamation of the hardware synths that it's trying to recreate. There's no online registration needed, just a couple of serial numbers to input.

Installing the software is also a breeze. You're left completely free to just get on with making music, which has to be a good thing, doesn't it? Purity is easy on your processor, easy on your resources and easy to use - so much so that you hardly notice it's there at all. In fact, Luxonix's approach to all of their applications - and Purity in particular - seems to be to make everything as straightforward as possible. You'll be pleased to hear that Purity also has these two benefits - its 1,300 factory presets take up a mere 100MB of space on your hard drive.

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