ISLA SP2400 SAMPLING DRUM MACHINE

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"A pre-owned ISLA SP2400 in very good condition. It comes with its original packaging and accessories.

Manufacturer's description
For us, the S2400 is a passion project – to recreate the sound of one of the world’s most iconic sampling drum machines, and bring it up-to-date with modern features. The result is the very best of old school and new school technology coming together.

Brad has been obsessed with drum machines for many years – owning, repairing, restoring, modifying countless makes and models (see his HR-16 mods on youtube).

Staying true to form in both sonic characteristics and design aesthetic were the main drivers in the realisation of this project, while bringing the hardware into the 21st Century and keeping the same ‘instant gratification’ and intuitiveness of its spiritual pre-predecessor at heart."

Isla Instruments Rhythm Imposer A/S

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"This is a heavily modified and circuit bent Alesis HR 16. The basic idea is that you can change the eproms and then mangle the sounds into oblivion by way of the knobs and switches which create all sorts of unpredictable and fairly brutal noises. The result can be anything from utter industrial magic to unusable garbage. Comes with a number of eproms incl. Korg, Linn DMX, Roland The machine is very unstable. Sometimes it works sometimes it just doesn’t. I have no idea how to make it more stable and when it comes on and produces sound, it’s absolutely random and unpredictable. The best way to think about this is as a sample source in that you have a tape running all the time and then pick and choose the best noises that come out of it. The great thing is that you would never ever come up with these sounds if you were to program them in a targeted and controlled manner. But on the other hand, it’s of course frustrating when it doesn’t come on at all. The starting bid is set accordingly. The buyer may wish to have a technician take a look at it."

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A quick Caladan update: current state of UI

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"As a follow up to the update I gave on our forum a couple of weeks back
https://forum.islainstruments.com/t/a...

I will not be around for the next 4-5 weeks and so just wanted to leave a progress update here, since I am doing the UI firmware for the Caladan myself now.

The populating of synth parameter data is now complete for the front panel, with automatic, dynamic parameter mapping. Menus and general machine navigation is now in place.
I've been working on a dynamic, automatic GUI that allows synth panels for cards, plugins and even external midi instruments to be created and edited, shared etc.
In the future this panel feature can import graphics, different knob styles etc to create nice GUIs for anything on the synth.

more to follow as soon as I can. thanks for your patience.
Big love
Brad!"

S2400 Kit Creator web application preview.

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"The application allows you to drag and drop audio samples in various formats—including WAV, AIFF, SND, MP3, and others—directly into your web browser. It automatically converts them into the native WAV format required by the S2400, with the correct bit depth and sample rate.

Once your samples are imported, you can adjust basic parameters such as gain, pitch, loop points, and pad color. When you’re satisfied, you can download the completed kit to your SD card and load it directly into the S2400.

This is for ALL S2400 users and is DSP card agnostic.

We’re aiming to release this to our beta team by the end of the week for final testing. It will then be available for all users, free of charge, at www.islainstruments.com

enjoy!"

S2400 DSP Soundfont plugin creator.

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"Today as my birthday gift to you, I release the beta of our soundfont plugin converter.
This web app takes a soundfont file as input, let's you preview and mess around with it, and then build that soundfont as a plugin which you can then drag onto your S2400 and use as an instrument."

4° ~ Aja⁴s ~ Blue Touch ~ Oberheim OB 12 ~ Multi Mode (4 channels)

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Oberheim OB 12,
Doepfer R2m,3x,
Isla Instruments,Kordbot,
iConnectivity mioXM,
Yamaha MCS 2,FC 7,
Strymon Big Sky MX, controlled by,
ATO Faderbank 16 n , with Midi CC,
Major Scale,
15.02.2025
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Iridium ~ Osmose ~ ContinuuMini ~ Big Sky MX

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Waldorf Iridium,
Expressive E Osmose,
Haken Audio ContinuuMini,
Strymon Big Sky MX, controlled by
ATO Faderbank 16 n , with Midi CC,
Isla Instruments Kordbot,
Line 6 DL4 mk2,
Harmonic Minor Scale
18.01.2025
vid # 2458

Trying the Isla Instruments Kordbot with the Oberheim/Sequential OB6 Add Moog Dfam +3 +2

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Isla Instruments Update

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Caladan Quadrowave card progress Nov 2024

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"We're delighted to be able to give you a progress update on our 4 voice wavetable card 'Quadrowave' created in collaboration with synth legend Paula Maddox.

Now the design is finalised, we will be able to open this for pre-orders soon.
This now makes 3 finished cards for the Caladan system at launch.

a reminder of the current running specs.

4 voice polyphony per card , up to 8 voice cards (of any design) can be installed into caladan.

2 Oscillators per voice, with 256 waveforms each with sub oscillator.

4 pole analog low pass filters based upon the sound semiconductor SSI2144"

Isla Instruments Caladan

Isla Instruments S2400 in White

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"This is a MINT and flawless Isla S2400 in the ivory white livery. Also note that the end cheeks are wood as well as the original aluminum, clamshelled together - so you can leave it like this or choose to have either one.

(PLEASE NOTE -in the photos the display may look blurry - but thats an artifact of the camera. I took a closeup of the display in the last picture to illustrate that it's fine.)"

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Isla Instruments 'Everything' Update.

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"Join Brad today at 4pm EDT while he rambles on about everything going on in house Atreides!
S2400 Shipping, S2400DSP production update, Caladan and cards update!"

ISLA Instruments Caladan EXCLUSIVE UPDATE!

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"Brad from ISLA Instruments gives us some exclusive updates on their next instrument, the Caladan!"

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Isla Instruments S2400 DSP Card Upgrade

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"Here's a video to let you know about our new DSP card hardware upgrade for the S2400 Desktop Sampler.

In this video we'll go over the development of the card, how it works and how it sounds.

The pre-order is now open with special early bird discount.
Order yours today at the website: https://www.islainstruments.com/produ...

Credit to my old mate Aydin (ATFC) for the use of his 'Bad Habit' Accapella from ATFV Feat Lisa Millet - Bad Habit available on Defected Records"

Oberheim EVS-1 Eight Voice Synthesizer w/ Extras

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Isla Instruments Caladan - Dual OPL3 card test..

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"SPEAKER WARNING:
A VERY rough demo just messing with the onboard filters and synthesis of our OPL3 caladan card."

OPL3

Isla Instruments Caladan Overview/Follow up

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"Following on from yesterday's brilliant long form show with the good guys over at @ProSynthNetwork [posted here], I wanted to follow up with a shorter, more concise overview of what the synth is all about.

Hopefully this answers many of the questions I have been fielding over the past 24hrs.

The coupon code 'prosynth' has been extended until Monday. My apologies for not considering people not having the time to watch the stream and place their order in time. That said, the code WILL expire on Monday morning.

to place your pre-order for the Caladan synthesizer, and see the specs, audio demos etc, head over to https://www.islainstruments.com/produ...

Thanks to all who have already placed an order, it's you guys that are enabling us to put this into production. We're extremely grateful.

Big Love
Brad"

Pro Synth Network LIVE! - Episode 182: With Special Guest, Brad Holland of Isla Instruments

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Update: follow-up video here.

"This week we are joined by the owner and founder of Isla Instruments, Brad Holland. Brad burst onto the scene with the innovative KordBot and then followed it up with the utterly amazing S2400, an instrument that took its core inspiration from the classic E-MU SP1200 and rocketed it into the 21st Century!

Now, on the cusp of the next Isla Instruments release, the hugely exciting Caladan synthesizer, Brad joins us from his Florida base to tell us all about it and give us an insight into its development and the team behind it."

Isla Instruments Caladan first audio tests…

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ISLA S2400 + RE-201 + SP-1X + CR1604 + RMX-500 : hardminimal jam #HMSF2023

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