rebellious beat box
The sound of primitive drum technology leaking into the future.
A filthy, twitchy, tape-battered mofo drumbox for Kontakt.
50 unruly drum kits that have a mind of their own.
Definitely not trying to be a perfect vintage drum machine.
50 kits · 1,600 samples ·
64 drums · multi outs ·
42 custom impulses
£35/$48/€43
Knitted from the sounds of early drum synthesis and the analogue technology that helped make some of the great records of the late 70s and early 80s. Rebellious Beat Box brings together 50 kits built from real and hybrid gear - CR78, 707, 606, 808, 909, Korg Minipops, Optigan, Linn and more - mixed with complementary sounds from modular and analogue hardware.
Every sound is squashed through an ancient Roland Space Echo 501. The preamp supplies the grit, and the repeats add patina and become part of the instrument. Echoes are split and mapped across the velocity range of each hit. Play hard for a cleaner hit - play softly and travel deeper into the tape. Or reverse it - the second octave flips the velocity order.
The territory runs from early Rough Trade and Factory records, Martin Hannett, Throbbing Gristle, Joy Division, Suicide, Cabaret Voltaire, Fad Gadget and The Human League through to LCD Sound System, Burial and beyond to SOPHIE, Charli XCX, Slayyyter, Kim Petras and on into the future.
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50 KITS
Built into the interface, no messing around with snapshot installation.
12-pad Architecture
pitch, pan, LoFi, choke group, low pass, high pass, play delay, IR select, IR wetness, IR pre-delay (very handy), filth, attack, decay and volume per pad
In-PAD Sample Switching
64 sample sets selectable directly within each pad.
Dyno-Verb!
Dynamic velocity-to-reverb routing - play harder and get more reverb - or flip that - play quieter and get more reverb.
42 custom reverb Impulses
Convolution reverbs ranging from raw signal paths to spring tanks to actual drums - separate for each pad.
Flipped Velocity
Two octaves of sample mapping. The first behaves normally, higher velocity = cleaner sounds. The second octave flips the order, higher velocity = more tape generations.
Two velocity modes.
VEL > LINEAR = 'normal' velocity layers
VEL > 2-LEVEL = select volume and sample choice for soft and hard hits.