Warp artist Tim Exile is clearly as proud of his work programming this fantastic new instrument in Reaktor as he is of the fact that he got away with calling it 'The Finger'.
You can see him giggling from NI's website while proudly announcing "and now I am gonna show you the finger". Ah, well, nerds will be nerds.
Having started life as a home-made Reaktor ensemble, the Finger is now officially endorsed and repackaged by Native Instruments, and it's nothing short of extraordinary. Just have a look at these videos and judge for yourselves...
More videos can be seen on Native Instruments' website.
To see where it all started you can watch this other video from a guest lecture that Tim Exile did at Thames Valley University in 2007 (incidentally, also an Ableton Training Centre: Phelan Kane teaches there and he is another genius, the only other person I'd recommend to learn from outside London School of Sound).
Well done Tim, maybe we'll manage to get you down to Clapham one of these days for a workshop or something.
The Finger can be purchased online directly from Native Instruments for a ridiculous 69 Euro. Compare this to the £350 I spent on a Kaoss Pad that looks GORGEOUS in its glowing red light but does little more than nothing!
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