· 9 Instruments Bass
Drum, Snare Drum, Lo Tom, Hi Tom, Hi Hat, Clap, Rim, Crash and Ride.
All instruments are polyphonically playable and have individual outs.
From HH section onwards it's short 8-bit samples played back with an
analog envelope as on the AirBase99. The sample flash ROM is bigger
than ever: per instrument there are 31(!) samples.
· Real analog sound production on
BD, SD, LT and HT with digital control, means storeability and
midi-controlability of all parameters. To make the disturbance of
analog circuitry as small as possible, all D/A converters are specially
adapted to the circuits and being integrated - with proven
XBase/AirBase technology.
· 16 knobs Sound editing is
done by endless rotary encoders for every analog parameter which lets
you edit the sounds without any jumps or awkward turning jobs. Close to each knob there is a 3-color LED indicating which parameters for the selected instrument are editable.
· Improved kick drum The
most famous sound of the XBase09 is actually the kick drum. We have
even put a parameter on top and provided the most wicked bass drum in
the world with a compression value that lets you decide between a
909-style ultra compressed envelope or an 808-ish exponential curve
(hint: MBase01).
· Analog tom toms For the beat freak
there is also some extremely good sounding and widely editable analog
tom toms included - as with the AirBase99.
· Internal step sequencer As
usual, the XBASE 999 has the genious step sequencer build in already.
There are some improvements now: all patterns are A/B patterns, and
it's your choice if it's 2 alternating 16 step patterns ore one 32 step
pattern. The sequencer is made up by 3-color LEDs to indicate the
individual step edit modes known from the XBase09 even better and more
intuitive. The micro shuffle can now be edited for each instrument individually. Bank
select has now an own switch. 4 banks with each 16 A/B patterns are
made available, which results in 128 actual 16 step patterns.
· Analog step sequencer with X-filter As an additional feature, the XBASE 999 has also an inbuild 16 step analog sequencer for the included external filter. Each of the 16 rotary knobs has a click function to activate an analog step which controls the X-filter cutoff. The
filter is a stereo 2-pole multimode filter with an interdependent
resonance and Q-control which sounds great for external audio signals
and that can be used as a signal source in resonant modes, too. If
resonance is low, Q control can make it narrow but never starts to
oscillate. Only when resonance is then applied, the filter starts to
whistle, and the bandwith can still be controlled (within certain
borders) through Q.
· Filter Modes Each of the
2 filters can be individually arranged as lowpass, highpass, bandpass
and notch. Plus, the 2 filters can be programmed as stereo, in parallel
or in series or with cross feedback. Each instrument and the
external input can be individually routed into the filter or being
spared out. The stereo filter signal is mixed into the stereo bus with
a VCA or can be purely led out via the ring of the stereo output jack. The LFOs can also control the filter to make it a real internal FX section. All this runs along with the beat sequencer...
· Analog input A
stereo signal can be inserted and sliced by a VCA with an own envelope
over the step sequencer. Or an external effects being inserted into
main mix. Or just being filtered by the X-filter over the analog
sequencer.
· Stereo mix with pan control all
instruments except for kick drum can be panned in the stereo bus. If a
plug is inserted to an individual input, the signal is spared out of
the stereo bus.
· External midi tracks There are 4 additional Midi tracks to control external devices. The encoder knobs program the 12 halftones and octaves.
· 2 LFOs Of course the XBASE 999 has again two phat LFOs that can be beat syncronized or run freely and can be routed to any destination.
· Hi Hat Filter The
Hi Hat section contains a great sounding analog band pass filter with
independend lowpass, highpass and resonance controls. Other than the
8-bit HH samples, analog noise can be the sound source as well.
· 2x24 Character LCD display For
a more convenient and clear operation the XBASE 999 has now a big
alphanumerical LCD display. Kits can be named and the analog step
sequencer has a bar display.
· Flash sound ROM The
sound flash memory in the percussion section (HH, Clap, Rim, Crash,
Ride) which contains 31 samples per instrument can be overwritten by
the user via midi sample dump in order to create own samples.
· Sample Editor We
provide a small tool that converts your *.wav samples into the right
formatted XBASE999 structure and lets you dump your own created short
samples into the XBASE999.
· 19" Rack mounting angles are available as accessories, and you can find them in the Jomox webshop.
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