DIY Lo-Fi FM Drum Machine with Arduino Nano on Breadboard - A Few Beats

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"Another DIY instrument! This time I used a famous microcontroller: an Arduino Nano (compatible, tbh), a few buttons, and some code to made a really basic (lo-fi) FM drum machine with a built-in sequencer.

Here are some of its features:

• 4 instruments: kick, snare, hi-hat, and tom
• 4 main sound controls: tune, decay, FM amount, and FM ratio
• 4 secondary sound controls: balance, pitch envelope decay, pitch envelope range, and FM feedback
• A full 16-step sequencer with swing and basic parameter locks and on-grid rolls

At the moment, it only has a basic audio output, so I recorded everything into Ableton and added a bit of filtering and some reverb.

These are four beats I made from scratch using only these basic parameters and the internal sequencer.

Enjoy!"

Some 140 Beats with Korg Volca Drum NEW (unofficial) Firmware by hj-oja

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"After the Hacktribe for the Electribe 2 and Pajen’s firmware for the Volca Sample, it’s now time for the Korg Volca Drum to get its own unofficial firmware update by hj-oja.

This new firmware adds some interesting features, such as Elektron-style conditions, which allow you to create longer and more complex patterns, as well as new Play FX (including octave up/down, bitcrush, reverse, all FX send, FX send only), and more.

The sound generator remains the same, but with a much more powerful sequencer that turns the Volca Drum into a real little groovebox.

I pushed the Volca Drum to its limits using the mixer send technique and added some reverb and delay in Ableton.

Enjoy!"

Control Synthesis Deep Bass 9 Acid Techno Jam with Nord Drum and Novation Circuit

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"Time to get some basslines from my Control Synthesis Deep Bass Nine, an analog bassline synthesizer from 1994. It comes with a single oscillator switchable between saw, square, and none (for audio input processing) and a few basic controls like tuning, cutoff, resonance, filter envelope, decay, accent, and volume.
Made as a clone of the TB-303, it fails to emulate the iconic synth but has its own character, with deep basses and squelchy resonance. I created some classic bassline sequences with the Novation Circuit (where velocity engages a filter opening in the Deep Bass Nine), a lead line using the internal synth (with a custom preset), and used the four drum parts to control the Nord Drum.

The result is a techno tune with a pulsing bassline and a wannabe acid flavor. :D Enjoy!"