Mega Metallic Eurorack Percussion (& beyond!!) // Entity Metalloid from Steady State Fate

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"Here we have the newest Eurorack module in the Entity range from Steady State Fate … METALLOID PERCUSSION. This is a simple set of controls for what is under the hood and much more complex circuit for synthesising metallic and noise based percussion. There’s 3 analogue oscillators which get ring modulated alongside having an FM bus for the most metally (move over Metallica) of metal noise sounds! This metallic noise synthesis is then split into two voices with multimode filters, VCAs and envelopes to control and create a huge range of percussion sounds. The trigger inputs are also dynamic, offering a velocity style (loud to quiet) dynamic and musical response to varying input material.

In the video I get snares, claps, rides, crashes, hi hats, gongs, video game coin collection sounds, Star Wars pod racers and plenty more! It’s not a clone of anything, nor is it meant to make one sound. But it’s easily bendable and shapeable to take the place of many classic percussion sounds. Check out the sounds in the timing index below and skip around as you like."

TIMING INDEX // CHAPTERS

00:00 Hello & Patch Previews

01:34 What is the Metalloid & Entity Percussion range

02:18 Feature overview & raw sound demo

06:00 Highly Dynamic Animated Percussion

07:58 Stereo Hi Hats with Accents

10:10 Snares & Reverse Drum Sounds

12:07 Dynamic Triggers with Rising & Falling Bursts

14:05 Synthesising Electronic Claps

15:23 A West Coast Rumble! (mini modular abstract system)

16:10 “Rag It Around like Blush Response”

17:18 Choke - volume ducking (sidechain compression style)

18:28 Dynamic Choking - Ride vs. Perc

19:48 Shimmer Wobbles (video-game-like sounds)

20:04 Cymbal Tones - Angular Crashes & Ride-like Metallics

21:54 Cowbell like Clangs (I have a fever!)

23:05 Emphasising Dynamic Triggers + Feedback Ethnic Percussion & Plucked Strings

25:17 Transition FX, Power Ups and Laser Discharges

26:42 From Gritty Shakers to Chirpy Glitches

27:51 Metalloid as a Stereo Resonator

29:41 Gritty Resonator Beats

30:51 Gong style Big Metal Hits - Sheets, Bars & Clangs

32:25 Audio Rate Modulation - FM & AM