VXXY DCM8 Digital Chiptune Drum Machine

The company says that it was born “from a desire to have chip music sounds in an easy to use studio desk sequencer and live performance package after wearing out our Gameboys with manic button bashing, and also wanting a few other sound styles thrown in for good measure.”

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The DCM8 is presented in a powder coated steel case with a CNC punched royal blue anodized aluminium front panel and white silk screen legend. The control layout has been designed to be compact and functional with eight main step editing and selection buttons, mode function buttons, an encoder knob for parameter adjustment and undo / redo buttons for editing as well as live performance pattern modification. A 16 × 2 black & white negative LCD provides status information and menus for editing sounds and changing options.

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Features

• 64 Patterns in 8 banks of 8.

• Selectable 8, 16 or 32 steps per pattern with half, normal and double speed timing scales.

• Adjustable instrument volume, decay and pitch on per step basis.

• Dual channel architecture with wide range of retro and unique preset sounds generated by a scripted synthesis engine.

• 255 digitally synthesized chip sounds, consisting of 223 presets and 32 user generated patches.

• 8 Levels of live undo on each pattern.

• 8 Songs with 128 pattern selections.

• Clear, Copy and Paste 8, 16 or 32 steps between patterns.

• EEPROM based storage of all patterns and user data, with SYSEX backup.

• MIDI input and output.

Availability:

The initial batch of units is now hardware complete with the firmware now in beta testing, readying for an early November release. No pricing info yet.

Check out VXXY for more details.