#drum synth

[doctoreveel]

Drum Synth; {Credit}

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[waitingforzyo]

I recently bought the Korg Volca Drums and made some kits in order to earn the synth engine and the sound of this little but powerful instrument. I made some abstract bass sequences to test my sounds and the sonic possibilities of the internal resonator. This is nothing more than a sound test before understand what can i really do with this amazing digital groovebox. Enjoy the beats!

[jakobhaq]

How about some Acoustic Percussion drum sound for your Teenage Engineering PO-32 Tonic? This Drum machine has an incredible wide sound range thanks to the Sonic Charge MicroTonic drum engine under the hood. I've packed this up with all the good stuff like Djembe, Bongo, Congas, Claves, even finger cymbals.

With these Acoustic drum instruments you'll be able to create "world"-type rhythms ranging from Bossa Nova to Afro beats beats. As usual this video includes a sound demo and the patterns demos include drumming genres from all corners of the world. Of course there is a Data transfer signal towards the end of the video so that you can use to update your PO32.

Want to know more about the PO-32 Tonic drum machine pocket operator? Check out my EPIC review and tutorial video ► https://youtu.be/pe1tNRXeuAc

PLAYLISTS PO32 SOUNDS AND PATTERNS ► https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvNQD1EpaiNMZGIE56SjEIu4SDQ4Pyd-d PO32 REVIEW & TUTORIAL ► https://youtu.be/pe1tNRXeuAc ALL POCKET OPERATOR VIDEOS ► https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvNQD1EpaiNOIAYep6nckuK49wa9dtEWP

LINK PO-32 TONIC ► https://www.teenageengineering.com/products/po-32

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[jakobhaq]

DM2 by Audionomy Impression Review! This app is awesome, so awesome I had to review it during my first impression of it.

DM2 - AppStore https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dm2/id1099179070?mt=8&uo=8&at=1l3voJz

Join the discussion: http://thesoundtestroom.com/dm2-by-audionomy/

[uniquesquared]

Impaktor Drum Synth Now Available

For once, an iOS synth app has been developed that doesn’t require any greasy finger mashing on the iPad/iPad/iPhone touch screen.  Drum synthesizers are a dime a dozen on the iOS scene, but Beep Street Impaktor is innovative app in the sense that it doesn’t require you to actually touch the screen to activate sounds. Instead, the built in microphone picks up external vibrations, like tapping my fingers on the desk next to the device, to trigger audio.  In short, it lets you use any surface as your pad surface.  Your taps can manipulate a variety of instruments from drum sets, to percussive keyboards.

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jBam’s Kawai XD-5

Kawai... Good old Kawai.  The XD-5 is either confused, or brilliant... I’m still not sure which one.

The absurd yet just fantastic approach they adopted for the XD-5 sound engine is... it’s just so funny, yet powerful and accidentally deep... (I honestly think they didn’t intend for it to be used to make half the sounds that I squeeze out of it).  

Mirroring the engine (basically) of its keyboard / rack synthesiser counterpart (the Kawai K4), the XD-5 dives into a ROM based 90′s Digital Drum Synthesiser wonderland, dominated by: 

4 “Oscillators” (or rather sound sources, ranging from waves; one shots; and looping sounds), grouped into two groups of two that can modulate each other within these groups (amplitude modulation... but in the digital domain, this has some seriously cool and unexpected results as the bits and bytes flip out and squeeze into a new sound to be converted to audio)... 

2 basically horrible filters that still serve a role in pushing the engine beyond the ordinary (parallel with one for each of the 2 sub groups; or in serial together on the overall mix)...

Seemingly rudimentary envelopes.. BUT - you can delay the start of an “oscillator” sounding... Clicks and Claps are so generously enhanced via this, especially with very tight envelop settings... and the combination of envelopes here also allows effective “use the attack of this, and the ring of that” programming...

The fantastic array of expected, odd, and then outright-questionable-sound-sources allow you to create a seemingly endless supply of new tones through the modulation options.  And to top it off, when pushed seriously hard, there’s some kind of an anti-aliasing engine that decides to give up in the upper limits (high pitches) and goes freakin’ insane with awesome digital glitchy results that are beautifully consistent (repeatable) and useable.

Other glorious features include, as with the Drum Station, the ability to keyboard track sounds - this is far more capable on the XD-5 however, enabling it to effectively become a musical synthesiser. Creating correctly pitched drum sounds is a breeze in the XD-5, and this combined with keyboard tracking presents really cool options for percussive melodic parts in your tracks...  HH’s, shakers, bongos, kicks and FX... Subtle to wild variations that are genuinely inspiring during the writing process are a few MIDI notes away. There’s also some handy velocity programming options, allowing limited but useful control of patch parameters that gives a meaningful variation to your grooves.  These two features alone place the XD-5 as one of the few pieces of kit out there that you’ll want to leave plugged in and ready to go (rather than just making a bunch of samples and loops and popping it on the shelf).

This is by far my most used drum synth, and it gets a full reprogramming session at least once a year...

LOVE:  

The fuzzy wonderful sound...

The start delay ----> it’s a clicks and claps party...

The endless “brand new” patches you can get out of it...

The “live use” benefits via velocity and keyboard tracking.

The glitchy high notes that are just SO damn good. Man... *love XD-5*

Enough patch storage to keep me busy, but not so much that I forget about sounds...  I get 6-12 months out each programming session.. and then start again from scratch.

WON’T COMPLAIN.. BUT(s):

No Inbuilt Power Supply - but I love this box too much... If I only allowed one wall wart, it’d be on the XD-5...

The horrendous front panel design and styling.  Push button programming sucks anywhere, but again... Too much love for this box, and I legitimately enjoy my time programming it in depth too.  In fact - it’s kinda cool looking, especially next to the K4 rack ---> like a 90s sci-fi film spaceship console...