New Module: Making Sound Machines - Stolperbeats. Shuffled Beats in Eurorack!

video upload by Making Sound Machines

"Happy Easter everyone!

What started out as a tiny little seedling of a project, our secret pattern generator, has grown into its own and hatched as a full-grown Eurorack module! Stolperbeats, roughly translating to "beats tripping over themselves", is a drum trigger sequencer designed to create shuffled beats influenced by artists like FlyingLotus, HiatusKaiyote and JDilla. We've always been fascinated by taking our beats offgrid to give them more fluidity and life. This module allows you to easily dial in and seamlessly switch between all the shuffle, feeling and groove we would, in the past, painstakingly nudge together in a DAW.

Stolperbeats is heard here triggering Eurorack drum modules, including the fantastic Prok Drum available as a DIY kit from Thonk doing the obiwankenobi dragon call, Tiptopaudio’s One playing the @beatsbykabuki STRIKE audio card through @rocket_not FenixIV phaser and an unreleased Making Sound Machines prototype called PercussiveMaintenance, played through @serge_by_random_source 's wavemultiplier and with added oomph from @tomwhitwell's MusicThing Minidrive. The performance showcases switching from a nonuplet groove to a quintuplet shuffle in the blink of an eye.

Stolperbeats features CV and MIDI control over trigger patterns for Kick, Snare, open and closed Hihat and 2x Percussion, as well as control over the depth of shuffle applied. It outputs trigger signals for use with Eurorack drum modules, and MIDI suitable for drum machines and synthesizers.

The module is not in stores quite yet but you will be able to play it at @superbooth_berlin 2022. And you might have noticed a sneaky little peak of it in a @divkidvideo already : D"

TiNRS FenixIV Prototype 1 and 2

Published on Apr 23, 2020 This Is Not Rocket Science

"What have we been doing since showing you our FenixIV at Superbooth 2019?

In this video Stijn takes you through some of the things that have been improved, updated and changed between prototype 1 (SB19) and prototype 2 (SB20).

Prototype 3 is in the making - the design of the boards 99% done and we are waiting for a new case and frontplate.

Want a FenixIV? Send an e-mail to priscilla@thisisnotrocketscience.nl to get on our waiting list."

Update:

TiNRS Booth Experience - Short Fenix IV Demo

Published on Apr 23, 2020 This Is Not Rocket Science

"With love from our kitchen table - the SuperBooth experience :-D
Quick demo of our FenixIV making some interesting sounds"

TiNRS Second Livestream - FenixIV Demo

Published on Apr 16, 2020 This Is Not Rocket Science

"Hallo allemaal and welcome to our second livestream!

We plan to show you some of our FenixIV http://www2.thisisnotrocketscience.nl... we have our second prototype ready to show - third is still in the making

By popular request we will also demo a bit of Tuesday"