"Transient-only" LXR-02 kit with the Zen, Nightverb & Roger That

video upload by Richard DeHove

"This started as a little experiment: What would a transient-only drumkit sound like? Of course it's very clicky, like someone on "amateur talent night" playing a set of spoons. But the filters, LFOs, drive and sample-rate controls all still work so there's some wiggle room. First job is to disable the underlaying sound which, I finally discovered, is most simply achieved by switching everything into PWM mode and adjusting the PWM level.

When the thrill of slightly different flavors of click wears off the challenge becomes finding an effect to give it some deeper variation. The Zen, Nightverb and twin Roger That' all did wildly different things. The Nightverb was unexpectedly successfully especially using the pre-delay, feedback and shape controls to give a heavily gated feel. On the Roger That section I did use the morph parameter so strictly speaking it ceased being all-transient, but I thought the end result was worth a little rule-bending.

0:00 Setup talk
1:50 Raw kit
2:27 With the Zen
3:09 Karplus time
4:40 Nightverb (no more talk)
7:18 Roger That

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