Trend price : 1000€
Italian preset drum machine based on really lo-fi 8-bits samples with
rhythm patterns.
Company: Viscount
Model: R64 S PCM
Class: Drum machine
Weight: 5 kg
Dates: 198x
Price: 1000€
Synthesis: PCM rompler
Resolution: 8 bits
Polyphony: 6 voices
N.PCM: 11 waves
Filter: none
LFO: none
Envelope: none
Sequencer: presets
Varitions: 3 modes
Memory: 64 patterns
Demo: 1
Video: 1
Review: 1
Overview
The main panel features 2 pots, 6 knobs for individual
instruments mix (some are circuit-shared) and 28 buttons for
pattern control.
Back panel terminal connectors:
- main signal out
- headphones out
- separate snare-kick out
- start stop pedalswitch
- break/fill pedalswitch
- claps solo pedalswitch
- trigger out (3 tempo dividers)
Sound
machine
handles 6 channels based on 11
PCM samples
coded at 8 bits.
Rhythm
there are 64 preset patterns on 4 banks. Quite all kind of music
style including rock, disco, samba, jazz, bossanova, slow, tarantella,
rhythm and blues and more. Patterns cannot be edited but they do
have 3 minor
variation controls:
- break
- 2 Claps fill modes
- 3 cancel modes for Bongo/Conga, Agogo, Claves/Cowbell
Sync
the trigger syncs analog machines like other drum machines or
synthesizers arpeggiators
Maintenance
sounds are sampled from real drums and are pretty short on
memory.
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