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At the heart of BlastBeats is a vintage FM chip called YMF-262 also known as the OPL3 chip & previously found in computer sound cards of the early 90s.

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These chips were notoriously hard to program and were rarely used to their full potential. However, they can produce surprisingly rich beautiful and utterly dirty sounds with a bit of exploring... 

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By putting so many parameters within easy reach BlastBeasts makes it fun and easy to master the signature sound of the DOS era!

RYTHM & SYNTH

BlastBeats is a 10 voice groove box offering 6 drum voices and 4 synth instruments. 

 

The many faders offer full control over the parameters of the instruments and can be automated and modulated per step

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Beats and melodies are a pleasure to program thanks to the high quality illuminated buttons

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FEATURES

  • OPL3 (YMF262) FM chip featured in vintage sound blaster cards of the MS-DOS era

  • Quad audio outputs with custom instrument routing

  • High fidelity audio amplification with low noise floor

  • mix (mono) and phones (dual mono) out each with per step volume control

  • 6 drum tracks (bass drum, snare drum, tom, closed & open hat, cymbal) that can also be used for melodic parts.

  • 4 synth tracks: two monophonic (2x2op or 1x4op) & two duo-phonic (4x2op or 2x4op)  

  • 100 kits with per step kit changes

  • 160 songs x 16 patterns x 64 steps

  • patterns of of arbitrary step lengths

  • micro timing (variable delay) of each step

  • Quantised or Unquantised recording

  • Pattern rotation (forward or backward) 

  • Cloning and transposing of individual synth patters

  • MIDI note numbers of drum parts can be re-assigned

  • Web based configuration tool

  • Kits and patterns stored on included SD card for convenient management and sharing.

  • 56 faders with per step automation and modulation

  • Real time and per step (a.k.a parameter lock) fader automation

  • 32 high quality illuminated switches

  • MIDI input and output on DIN5 ports

  • customisable MIDI input channels

  • All tracks transmit MIDI enabling Blast Beats to be used as multi-track MIDI sequencer

  • Analog sync in and out on 3.5mm jacks

  • All Audio on 6.35mm jacks

  • Premium sandblasted anodised aluminum chassis

  • All instruments can be sequenced internally or played via MIDI allowing BlastBeats to be used as a 4-operator 8-waveform polytimbral MIDI synthesizer

  • Probability per instrument

  • Swing (with automation per step)

  • Kit and pattern randomiser

  • Fader wiggling: randomiser with adjustable depth per step

  • 3 tricks ( pitch bend aka spin down, freeze and stutter with real time automation and step sequencing of all tricks.

  • Synth pitch vibrato and tremolo have adjustable speed and depth (with automation per step) and a choice of 10 waveforms

  • Several operator waveforms and algorithms yielding infinite sound textures.

  • Dimensions: 29.5cm x 16.5cm x 4.5cm (11.6" x 6.5" x 1.8")

  • Weight 944 g ( 2 lb)

  • 9V DC power supply included. 
     

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