

Some of these you click on may just use one sound, while others have been crafted with three or four different types of sounds. The individual presets for the selected category are in the middle of the page. When you click with a mouse towards the top of a key, it is quiet, and as you click lower down on a key, it will be louder. The keyboard in this section is velocity sensitive. Patches can be saved from here, and you also have access to the selection buttons for the different pages of Purity. This is where you can control the master volume, and see the levels for the master output. Along the bottom of the mixer page is the keyboard section. If you want to load up another preset, you just right-click on that display, and a menu pops up with tons of presets to choose from. In the next column over, it displays the name of the preset that has been loaded in. The numbered buttons along the left turn each part on or off. You can use either output bus to get the audio to separate tracks in your DAW. Loading When you first load Purity, you are brought to the Mixer screen. You might as well, as the demo only takes a few minutes to download anyway, and is a meager 50 megabytes in size. I would definitely check out the demo first. There is a demo version you can download to make sure it works with your system. They state on their website that Ableton Live and Maschine will not work correctly with it. While writing this review, I was using Purity in the latest version of Reaper. Just as an example, in the specs that are required, I actually excluded the part where they mention Windows as one of the operating system choices. I know that Purity was originally released around, but the manual could use some updating.

As I was just mentioning the specifications needed for Purity, I also have to mention the manual. Just like with Ravity, the system requirements are easy to take: The installation is easy, as it just uses a serial and authorization number. Purity is a bit only plugin for PCs and Macs, which can either be loaded into a DAW digital audio workstation or you can use the included standalone version as well. Why am I telling you all of this? Purity is as an all-in one sixteen-part workstation, so you have that functionality built-in. Luxonix has another product called Ravity 16, which lets you control up to sixteen instances of Ravity at once. Purity is basically an updated version of Ravity, and it has a lot of new features added.

It is a sound module software plugin that originally was released in I have to admit, I actually like those types of sound modules from the old days. Back Issues Review - Purity by Luxonix Looking for a large variety of sounds and effects all contained in an easy to use sixteen-part workstation that comes at a bargain price? Maybe Purity is the answer.
