The Delptronics LDB-1 Analog Drum Machine Now Shipping!

Delptronics is now shipping the LDB-1 Analog Drum Machine!

This is the stand alone version of their recently released Eurorack Module.

"The LDB-1 “Little Drummer Boy” is a modern recreation of the classic analog drum machines of the 80's, like the Roland TR-606 and TR-808. Our goal was to recreate the warm sounds of the classics, using all analog circuitry - not samples. The brain of the LDB-1 is a powerful digital microcontroller that triggers the analog drum sounds and provides the sequencer, programmability and connectivity features.

Easily interfaces with other instruments, synthesizers, DAWs, etc. through analog connections, MIDI, and DINsync.

The LDB-1 has all of the features of a classic analog drum machine in a small, affordable package."

To read more about LDB-1 and to place your order, head over to Delptronics' website.

How to hack your Korg Monotron Delay

User DJ JonDent has posted another cool time lapse mod video, this time showing the hacking of our favorite little noisemaker, the Korg Monotron Delay.

Check out the vid HERE

Feeling confident about taking your Monotron apart now? I know I am certainly considering it.....

About DJ JonDent:
This channel is all about electronic music, DJing, production & synthesizers...
Exploring technology to create music using both hardware and software.

MATRIXSYNTH: acid-o-tribe - KORG Monotribe in Yellow

MATRIXSYNTH: acid-o-tribe - KORG Monotribe in Yellow:

I like the layout on this overlay a lot, and am actually surprised at how good the Mtron looks in Yellow, good job random dude in Poland!

Dharmatronix-Danger Bot

A little music video made with TochViZ and vjay on an iPad (video only, audio was a combo of ipad and cpu)

The Delptronics LDB1e Analog Drum Eurorack Module

Delptronics released a new video demonstrating the first of two Drum Machines they are planning to release under the "Little Drummer Boy" moniker. The LDB-1e “Little Drummer Boy”  Module is a Eurorack counterpart to the planned LDB Stand alne drum machine.  The 8-Voice Module has, you guessed it,  8 analog drums in 4HP wide euro module and is capable of 8-voice polyphony.

From Delptronics' site:

"The module uses totally analog circuitry, not samples. Our goal was to recreate the warm sounds of the classic analog drum machines of the 80's, like the Roland TR-606, TR-808 and TR-909. The circuitry of the LDB-1e uses the same principals as the classics and produces a very similar sound.

The module contains the same drum circuitry found in the Delptronics LDB-1 Drum Machine, which is a complete drum machine including a sequencer.

All drums can be played simultaneously, including open and closed hi-hat for a super punchy cymbal Connect it to any sequencer or clock source. Built-in gate to trigger converter. A square wave of any duty cycle will trigger the drums. So, there is no need to generate a 5MS trigger pulse.

An expansion module will be available in the future providing individual output and volume control for each instrument.

I am eagerly awaiting the release of the stand alone LDB-1, how about you?

Good Grief Suicide Hotline Promo and Tracks!

A friend of mine is involved in a New Dark Comedy that looks hilarious based off their Promo Videos, one of which can be found at the end of this post. After viewing this particular promo, I had to sample it. .  Had to be done, my hands are tied here....So I ripped the audio from the promo vid, and played around with it to create two little ditties, hope you enjoy.  Big ups to StoneCarter Media and Experiamus Productions, please help them spread the word by "Liking"  their FB Page HERE (even if you don't generally go for that sort of thing, you hipster you)

                                                        

-Plot Outline: A recent college grad, fresh faced and ready to save the world, goes to work at a cut rate crisis counseling center filled with con artists and lunatics. To make matters worse, he breaks the cardinal rule and begins dating one of his callers, creating a myriad of awkward situations that only gets worse as he tries to make them better.

Sermon (Dharmatronix VS Nasty N8)

Dharmatronix VS Nasty N8: Sermon This is just a fun track that my brother and I did yesterday while experimenting with Synthcart. Thus far, I have been unable to find a Highly Liquid MIDI2600 Kit for sale, so we after programing some beats on the machines, we just used the Atari Keypads to jam overtop at the closest temp we could get. Audio was bussed from a small Yamaha mixer straight into my iPad, running Garageband. We transferred the files to my iMac, imported into them into Ableton and warped the Synthcart Audio to compensate for the Tempo lag during recording.