Here’s a quick look at the VXXY DCM8 drum machine, via SchneidersBuero at Rough Trade London.
The DCM8 is described as “the first dedicated chip tune drum machine.”
Features:
- 64 Patterns in 8 banks of 8.
- Selectable 8, 16 or 32 steps per pattern with half, normal and double speed timing scales.
- Adjustable instrument volume, decay and pitch on per step basis.
- Dual channel architecture with wide range of retro and unique preset sounds generated by a scripted synthesis engine.
- 255 digitally synthesized chip sounds, consisting of 223 presets and 32 user generated patches.
- 8 Levels of live undo on each pattern.
- 8 Songs with 128 pattern selections.
- Clear, Copy and Paste 8, 16 or 32 steps between patterns.
- EEPROM based storage of all patterns and user data, with SYSEX backup.
- MIDI input and output.
For more information on the DCM8, see the VXXY site.
Because audio demos of gear always spoil the surprise, so much better to just describe the unit and show us what it looks like.
I totally get your point, but I would rather hear a good recording of the gear than one of those crappy camcorder mic’s picking up a crappy speaker in a trade show. I echo what Mutant and Jyoti said. The demos on the website are pretty impressive and enjoyable (and I usually hate the low-bit-res stuff).
Visit their site, the demo video is stunning, what a noisy and funky little machine.
I was a little skeptical until I went to the website ~ sounds lovely! Far more flexible than I anticipated, I’m quite tempted! 😀
this is definitely on my list, i’d have liked to see Korg come up with a cheap version of this to add to the volca range, though not necessarily analog. but this device looks really interesting/. will have to come down in price for me to get it though, with postage it’d be astronomical to my country.
“The first dedicated chip tune drum machine”? And Modemachines SID?
Oto Biscuit ..need I say more..