Circuit Bent Electronic Drums by 3Xfx

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"It is fully loaded with 4 drum pads, 2 cymbal pads, and a foot pedal. Each pad, with the exception of one of the cymbals and the foot pedal, is assignable to quite a few different sounds (i.e. 4 different snare sounds, 6 different tom sounds, handclaps, etc.). The bass and cymbal sounds that are not changeable are able to be affected by the various bends.

There are 8 different styles of preprogrammed beats each with 2 different main beats. You can also play only the beat, only the backing music, or both together.

The other functions of this instrument are the keyboard scratchpad and headset mic. These features are affected by the distortion bends, including the mic input! There are several different selectable scratchpad sounds, and 4 different keyboard sounds.

The bends include 4 distortion switches, which can be used individually or in various combinations for nice distortion sounds. In combinations they also affect the tone of the sounds. There is also a knob for pitch adjustment, with on/off switch, which affects most of the units sounds, from demonic lows to chipmunk highs. One thing to note is that the pitch control does only affects the bass drum and crash cymbal of the electronic drumset sounds. Luckily there are enough sounds to assign to the other drum pads that actually sound pretty good, plus the distortion switches affect all the units sounds. There is also a 1/4 inch output that switches the speaker off.

The sound clips below were recorded from the ouyput directly into the mixer without any additional effects. The first track is me playing the electronic drums and the next 2 are having fun with the preprogrammed beats. Enjoy!

Bent drums
Beats 1
Beats 2"