Amiga-style Eurorack Module in Early Development

Zip the Robot from Core-Tex Labs (an Industrial Record Label) has shared with us a number of development goals for an Amiga-inspired Eurorack module called "The Flogger":

"The Flogger is a proposed Eurorack module built around a very specific idea: some old digital replay chains could make drums feel denser, louder, and more physical than a lot of cleaner modern gear while carrying the exact same electrical energy.

This project starts with the Amiga question first.

If you want reduced sample rate and bit depth, are you sure you want to fake it afterwards with a bitcrusher? 

Why not just replay the sample the way the Amiga treated it in the first place, through the kind of workflow the Paula chip made famous? 

Nostalgic? 

Chiptune nerd? 

Or just after that good old umpf?

That is exactly the territory our little flogger is aiming for.

Not because Paula is the only way to get there. Because it is one of the clearest historical examples of a primitive replay chain producing a sound that still gets talked about decades later."

As a lifelong Amiga fan, I completely agree that the machine has a captivating "medium fidelity" sound...a pleasing crust of quantisation noise (max sampling rate without trickery = 28kHz 8-bit) that transposes downwards beautifully, (variable sampling architecture see, like the PPG!) yet retains enough high-end fidelity to reproduce cymbals and punchy drum transients.

Eurorack Amiga vibes sound intriguing - but remember this project is at an early stage and its viability is yet to be seen:

"FLOGGER is at proof-of-concept stage. The goal of this site is to find out whether enough producers, Eurorack users, and Amiga/audio heads want this thing badly enough to justify building the first hardware prototype.

If this sounds useful to you, please leave a quick "yes" or comment with what you'd prefer: kit, built module, desktop box, or just watching for now."

Please visit the link below for more information:

https://sites.google.com/view/floggerunit/home

Best of luck to Zip, and if you'd like to learn more about Amiga sound then please check out my video on the subject:

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