MIDI Target Manufacturer(s): Mutable Instruments
Summary: I designed a template to manually play or program the Anushri Synth's Drum Machine. The Anushri is a DIY Analog Mono Synth with a great digital drum machine. The kit was easy to put together and sounds great. The drum machine works with a generative drum pattern but can also be manually programmed.
This template makes it easy to forgo the generative drum machine and program beats x0x style, manually hit each drum, and allows for much more detailed control, 15 new controls, over the sound of the three drums parts with parameters not separately available on the Anushri's front panel.
I designed a template to manually play or program the Anushri Synth's Drum Machine. The Anushri is a DIY Analog Mono Synth with a great digital drum machine. The kit was easy to put together and sounds great. The drum machine works with a generative drum pattern but can also be manually programmed.
This template makes it easy to forgo the generative drum machine and program beats x0x style, manually hit each drum, and allows for much more detailed control, 15 new controls, over the sound of the three drums parts with parameters not separately available on the Anushri's front panel. It's not perfect, the 16 steps below each drum used to activate/deactivate a drum part are actually redundant but can be used as makers to visualize the beat. What this means is you could quickly have steps lit up under drum parts that don't actually belong there if you don't hit the buttons in the right order but it's easy to use once you get it, you just have to start with a blank pattern.
So using this template I am able to program a beat into the Anushri, then play this beat and send clock info back into my iPad running Arpeggionome and in turn it play the synth part of the Anushri in sync. I have the audio of the synth and drums separated, drums going into Monotron Duo-Monotron Delay-Effectron, and synth going into tons of pedals, then joined back together via mixer pedal into amp!
It works by being able to turn off/on the genereative drum pattern, trigger the drums from the drum pads on the top right, or alter the tone of each of the three drum parts with the knobs on the right side. To start with empty pattern, switch all toggle steps to off, then press each drum button (on the left side) followed by clear pattern. Then just hit the Drum button above the row of steps you wish to add/delete. Example: if you want to add a Bass hit first hit the BD button the add or delete bass drum hits on it's row of steps, then move on to the snare by first pressing the SN button then add/delete from the steps it's row of steps.
