Just installed my shiny new copy of Scriptorium, the latest from our good friends Soniccouture. Scriptorium is actually more a collection of KSP scripts for Kontakt 2/3 rather than a big fat sample set, but there are sounds in the package, 60 of 'em. I assume the main purpose is to show off the obvious uses for the individual scripts, but they're quite usable in their own right. I haven't had a chance to do anything but take a quick browse through the included instruments, so I can't really speak to the usefulness of the scripts yet.

Perhaps this mini-review is a bit premature, in that event. So, let's just consider this a notice that it exists, and once I get my head around what some of these little guys do, I'll report back. Just in a brief browse, though, there are some very cool drumming utilities, and the cellular automata patches are absolutely ludicrous. Scriptorium is £49.00, which unfortunately translates to US$99.00. This is the point in time where European companies are going to start paying the price for the declining dollar, I hate to say. Or American consumers, one or the other. But TANSTAAFL. In any event, on an initial examination, this appears to me to be well worth the money. I mean, hell, people paid twice that for that ridiculous Oberheim arpeggio thing, and this is hundreds of times more powerful.