This little fellow is a basic snare voice module that accepts a trigger, and outputs a snare. It's a modern copy of the Roland 808 snare voice, snappy volume, two different "body" bridged-T circuits that make a "bong" sound, and a knob that fades between the two. It sounds like a reasonably accurate synthesized snare drum, and exactly like some* 808 snares.
*the OG '80s and '90s Roland drum machines are mostly analog, with 5% carbon film resistors and (aging) electrolytic or (high-tolerance) ceramics and maybe even (SCARY) tantalum caps. So, every one of those machines will sound slightly different, sometimes you'd even be able to tell by listening. But they all sound like 808s or 909s or 707s or whatever.
Anyway, this module ALSO has a delay circuit. It uses the ubiquitous PT2399 chip, with the parameters shoved way past where they're supposed to go, we've all heard the runaway delays and the CRONCHY delay times that happen when a designer wrinkles up the datasheet .pdf and drags it into the recycle bin.
Also also, you can inject whatever sound you want for the "snappy". Kinda fun to experiment with a random audio track, say, Carly Rae Jepsen's hit pop anthem Call Me Maybe? The input will be getting the same filtering and VCA'ing that the white noise gets, just so you know.
Okay lemme seeeeeee... hmm, instead of trying to remember what this module can do, and how to get it to do it, allow me to send you to a Youtube video of it:
Jacks:
Trig triggers, MixCV controls the wet/dry mix, with high voltages injecting the snare voice into the delay circuit. The delay tails, so a low voltage won't cut off the delays. It's fun to have the 3rd snare per phrase have a dump of delay... this module was inspired by King Tubby's use of this technique. Acc is basically CV control over the amplitude of the snare. The 808 machine has two levels, but this is infinitely variable. Out is out. Alt is for alternative "snappy" sound inputs.
Knobs:
Tone fades between the two "body" resonant voices. Snap adjusts the volume of the white noise or the alternate signal. Delay controls the length of the delay repeats. Reps controls how much of the repeated signal gets passed back into the delay circuit. These last two controls will crunch and degrade, and repeat into very loud runaway feedback. Mix is the initial wet/dry control of the output between the snare voice and the delay circuit. Vol is output volume obviously, with a twist: the first two thirds or so of the volume are straightforward amplitude, but the last third soft-clips against a pair of diodes, making for a nice saturated snare sound.
Huh, I guess that's a pretty complete rundown, not as quick as I'd thought. Okay enjoy!
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