This is a video demo of Peter Cocteau’s NXT-606 sample playback drum machine – a DIY Lego Mindstorms drum machine!
The NNT-606 app is available as a free download.
Features:
- Monophonic sample based drum machine
- 24 percussion and Fx sounds
- Sampling rate: 8Khz
- memory: 96 measures
- control: 2 rotation sensor +NXT buttons
- hacked loud speaker to mono output: jack 6,35mm
- Editor: NXT-G
- Real time operation
Main page:
- Mode: edit/loop4/loop8/…/loop96
- Play: play/stop
- Save and copy
- Measure: 1 to 96
- Tempo: 20 to 200
- Swing: 0 to 9
- Humanisation: not achieved
Edit page:
- Graphic pattern editor
- Selected step: 1 to 16
- Sound: 1 to 24
- Velocity: 0/25/50/100%
via PeterCocteau, rekkerd
Very cool. Though I think the apt name for this would be NXT-505 – not 606, as it's based on samples, not synthesis.
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Good point! Either way, pretty cool, though!
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8k? 8 bit? wow…this sounds good for such lo-fi reminds me of the the same sound the Mirage makes…now i want to drag out a Mirage and compare
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