deton8 Drum Machine In Action

Twisted Electrons tells us that deton8, a hybrid sampler/drum synthesizer using a mix of crunchy 8-BIT samples and wavetable synthesis, will be shipping in April. In the meantime, the company has posted this short video showing off its capabilities.

deton8 features

•     USB-MIDI
•     Hardware MIDI
•     SYNC IN
•     SYNC OUT
•     16 patterns of 1-16 steps each
•     Chain up to 16 patterns in a row to make a song
•     8 Voices (Kick, Snare, Metal (hats), Clap, Can (tinny sounds), Tom, Nut (woody sounds), SYNTH (NES inspired triangle wavetable synthesizer, with arp that can be shaped to a square).
•     Pitch and decay modulation per step on every voice
•     8 hands on Stutter modes: Beat repeat (with variable rate), Forward granular, Reverse granular, Pendulum granular (scratch), buzz/texture , random granular (noise generation), spin up, spin down
•     Forward & Reverse sample playback per track
•     Delay with variable delay time and pitch decay (upwards and downwards)
•     Ring mod effect with variable frequency
•     Global pitch shift
•     Copy/Paste patterns
•     Real time pattern recording with optional metronome
•     Tap tempo
•     Swing
•     Mute/Solo a track
•     Drive any voice into distortion
•     Sound variation knob for Kick (add sub), Snare (add noise/snappy), Hats (change texture) and Synth (arpeggiate)
•     Pump aka sidechain compression emulation (any track can “duck” the others for the pumping/breathing effect)
•     Pattern clean and randomize for accidental magical beats

Pricing and Availability:

€255.00 excl. VAT

More information:

• deton8

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