X1L3 - THE WRETCHED - circuit bent drum machine - eurorack module - final rev test

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"Testing the first complete unit of the first build run.
Placed in my rig as my personal unit to replace the solder bridged and wires around the back mess that i used for fault finding and tweaking that's lived in my rig for over a year.

No frills demo cycle - just the machine lazily cruising along doing a good impression of a circuit bent Yamaha DD drum machine without using the resonant filter and ruiner sections that were a part of my old circuit bending works. Using those things are where you can really go dark and mess things up, but you don't necessarily need them to do the whole 90s drum rompler bent thing.

You could probably do a lot worse than use this as your go to circuit bent drum machine, but to use it as your main driver in a track is i think a matter of taste. If you don't mind your drums sounding like they're done on an Amiga tracker, which i don't, then it works. If fidelity is your thing i'd probably pair it up with something a bit more hifi to pin down the 8 bit cronch.

Anyone familiar with a circuit bent and midi retrofitted Yamaha DD will know how close this thing is at recreating the sound of one. Except it does what they do better, with more control, more finesse, and without the annoying toy footprint of one of those machines. A circuit bent Yamaha DD14 was used heavily in the creation of what this module has become.

I'd go head to head with a flag ship bent TR505/707 with this thing and feel pretty confident in coming out the other side on top. It takes all that is good about a bent drum machine and leaves behind the compromise that's often inherent to them.

Will be released when the Alleykat SID module is complete. Alleykat, the AY/YM chip module and this will all come out at the same time. I'm taking time out to have a break and chill before i put these new machines out there."

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X1L3 - THE WRETCHED - circuit bent drum machine - cat rom

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