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"It is not well known although i cannot understand why because it can produce and endless varienty of synthesized percussion and drum sounds, far beyond the boring Simmons-Piuuuuu.
The specs:
* The "40" means it can produce 4 sounds at once (not 40 ? no, only 4)
* Although it has 4 voices there are 8 Pad-Slots
* each Pad can be fired by a 6.3 mm -jack trigger-in OR (have a seat) .. MIDI (although it tends to hangup when fired with extensive data)
* each Pad has (if you like) an individual out or goes to the sum-out* each Voice is made of: 1 digital Wavegenerator and Noise, 2 Bandpassfilters and 4 Envelopegenerators, see blockdiagram to the right. You can tweak the 'tone' and the 'attack'-part separately and set the balance of both.
* The 32 waveforms sound like cheap 12 bit samples with a loopphase. Some sound like sine or a chime or a gong. I put up a soundfile with all the waveforms below.
* you can store (!) 4 x 8 Banks, each with 8 Pad-Parametersets (=Sounds)"
The handling of the SC40 requires a little "comprehension" - but in the end it produces really great percussion sounds (it works with SSM filters!). I definitely can recommend this one.
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