1 bit drum - pulse percussion custom unit

1 bit drum

Welcome to gabba heaven (or better, hell :slight_smile: ) with this new simple unit based on Accents Aliased Pulse Oscillator. It is a percussive voice aimed mainly at nasty kicks but can produce zipper sounds and other weird stuff:

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controls:

  • gate: this fires the nasty drum triggering both amp and pitch envelopes
  • tune: pretty self explainatory 1v/oct control (here 0 = C note but you can change it going into the unit and resetting the pulse vco tune back to 0 cents)
  • amp rel: release control for the amplitude envelope
  • pitch rel: release control for the pitch envelope
  • p amt: how much the pitch envelope modulate pitch (positive only)
  • pw: pulse width of the pulse vco (limited at the extremes for optimal range)
  • a curve: curve control for the amplitude envelope. center = linear, positive values = more logarithmic, negative values = more exponential
  • p curve: curve control for the pitch envelope. center = linear, positive values = more logarithmic, negative values = more exponential

cpu: about 10%
firmware: v0.4.11 or later
requires: accents

have fun:
1 bit drum.unit (24.5 KB)

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some kicks, tweaking parameters:

some random beats (modulations by Frap Tools Sapèl):

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GREAT JOB!!!
thanks for sharing !!!

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I loaded this ok but does it need combining with another unit or something else?

no, you just have to send it some gate into the GATE parameter (or fire it manually), exactly like you do with samplers. it is a sound generator not a processor, so it sounds by itself, but you have to trigger it

OK. I’ll try again… got it triggering but just had nothing on the output…

Was rushing tbh.

start with A curve and P curve at 0 then slowly set them. extreme values can cause the envelope to be too short or to not be retriggered correctly especially if the gate sequence is fast

Between ‘pw’ and ‘a curve’ is the open slot. What is in there?

That is where the custom unit’s patch resides.

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Well I have nothing showing in that slot. Just empty.

What is your firmware version? This unit preset will only work on v0.4.11 or later.

v0.4.11

Is what I’m using.

How are you loading the preset?

Used a custom container I think.

That should work then. You can also skip a bunch of steps and just load it directly from the Presets tab (S3) of the unit insert screen.

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Ah, I know what you are missing. This unit is based on Joe’s accents library. You need to have that installed first.

Cool. Hence my first question (which perhaps I should have worded better) ‘does it need combining with another unit or something else?’

Thanks for clearing that up…

aaaah sorry, totally forgot to mention that! thanks @odevices (also for editing my original post :wink: ), accents is so cool i somehow i always think everybody has it installed.

:joy: Good work everyone.

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