Device Details
Device Overview
| Name/Version: | Randrums 1.0 |  |
| Author: | MichaelEstaban | |
| Description: | This is a collaborative project created by Michael and Estaban at dBs Music Berlin for a school project. Randrums is a drum synthesiser instrument based on randomness. It has 3 separate drum synth segments along with an FX/Master panel. Each of the synth segments occupies its own space in the frequency spectrum (lows, mids and highs). The 'Kick' and 'Hats' segments both have one synth each while the 'Mids' segment contains 3 (a snare, a clap and a tom) and will randomly choose which one of them to play. Each segment also has it’s own dedicated filter, a low-pass, band-pass and high-pass filter respectively. These can be used to carve or shape the sound for a greater effect. Each segment can be turned on/off (I/O button) as well as be sent to the FX chain (FX button) individually. The 'Kick' segment has an added '4/4' button which forces it to trigger on every beat, regardless of whether the segment is turned on or off. The FX chain consists of a delay and a distortion. The delay has it’s own low-pass filter, whose cutoff can be controlled via the 'Damping' parameter. This can be used to reduce high frequency harshness or to add tonal quality. On the master panel, the 'Random Delay Range' parameter is used to control the range of a random delay time that is added to every individual drum trigger. The 'Randomness' parameter increases the range of randomness of various individual values of the synths themselves. Bringing this parameter down to 0 resets the synths' parameters to determined values. The 'Beat Devision' parameter tells the instrument on which devisions of a bar each synth trigger should happen. So, for example, 1/8 would mean one trigger per 8th note. The instrument uses incoming MIDI note on/off and pitch data. While a midi note is active the instrument will send triggers every beat devision to a random synth segment that is currently switched on. The pitch of the note is used to tune certain synths to that note. Note that the tuned synths are restrained to specific octaves. This means, for example, that sending a C-6 and C-1 MIDI note to the instrument will both cause the Kick to play at the same frequency. |
Device Details
| Downloads: | 1112 |
| Tags | synth, drum |
| Live Version Used: | 10.1.6 |
| Max Version Used: | 8.1.1 |
| Date Added: | Jan 06 2020 23:11:47 |
| Date Last Updated: | Jan 07 2020 20:40:19 |
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| Device Type: | instrument_device |
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| License (more info): | None |
Device Files
| Device File: | Randrums.amxd |
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