Twisted Electrons deton8 Is A New Portable Groovebox With A Sample/Synth Engine

March 19, 2019 Synth Anatomy News 0

During my participation in the TSR19, Twisted Electrons announced another new product for 2019. deton8 is a new super portable groovebox that is based on a hybrid sound engine: sampler and drum synthesis. It’s powered by 8bit samples as well as wavetable synthesis inspired by the NES triangle wavetable Synthesizer. On top, it allows you to upload own samples in the unique and to replace the factory library.

deton8 features a 16 step sequencer that includes a pitch and decay mod per step on every voice as well as a wide range of stutter modes: beat repeat, forward granular… Up to 16 patterns can be chained up for creating a song. An interesting and affordable hybrid groovebox from Twisted Electrons. Unfortunately, it’s not battery operated.

Features

USB-MIDI
Hardware MIDI
SYNC IN
SYNC OUT
16 patterns of 1-16 steps each
Chain up to 16 patterns in a row to make a song
8 Voices (Kick, Snare, Metal (hats), Clap, Can (tinny sounds), Tom, Nut (woody sounds), SYNTH (NES inspired triangle wavetable synthesizer, with arp that can be shaped to a square).
Two modes: Loop Mode (for breaks and melodic content, decay and tune is global) & Kit mode (individual tuning and decay per part)
Pitch and decay modulation per step on every voice
8 hands on Stutter modes: Beat repeat (with variable rate), Forward granular, Reverse granular, Pendulum granular (scratch), buzz/texture , random granular (noise generation), spin up, spin down
Forward & Reverse sample playback per track
Delay with variable delay time and pitch decay (upwards and downwards)
Ring mod effect with variable frequency
Global pitch shift
Copy/Paste patterns
Real time pattern recording with optional metronome
Tap tempo
Swing
Mute/Solo a track
Drive any voice into distortion
Sound variation knob for Kick (add sub), Snare (add noise/snappy), Hats (change texture) and Synth (arpeggiate)
Pump aka sidechain compression emulation (any track can “duck” the others for the pumping/breathing effect)
Pattern clean and randomize for accidental magical beats