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#Vox popoli glitch software

#Vox popoli glitch full

(All Modes can be shifted down 2 octaves.) Mode 1 goes a measly 4 semitones, 2 is better at 1 octave, Modes 3 and 4 manage an additional 5 and 9 semitones respectively, while Modes 5 to 8 all go up a full two octaves. Sample Mode also determines how far a sample can be shifted up from its original pitch. Remember - the original Fairlight spec offered only 14khz! This setting eats into memory though, and is unique in denying you access to some of the more esoteric editing options so any of 7 other defaults, can be chosen instead, giving a maximum, in Sample Mode 8, of 19.5 seconds - at a fairly useless 1 Khz bandwidth! Still, it's nice to have the choice, and Sample Modes 2 to 4 all provide useful time/quality trade-offs, with a still-musical 2.5 seconds of 8Khz sampling available in Mode 4. The system defaults to Sample Mode 1, the highest bandwidth setting of 20 Khz (sample rate: 42Khz), which gives a maximum sample time of just under a second, and near-perfect reproduction. (Threshold defaults to 'about halfway'.) You can then immediately Listen to your sample across its pitch range, by playing it either from the top two rows of the QWERTY keyboard, or from an attached MIDI keyboard. Press Record, and as soon as the Threshold point is passed, recording begins. Select Sample, and adjust the green Threshold bar so that it matches the incoming red Peak Level signal. Selecting option 1 (Press 'Fire'/'Return') takes you, logically enough, through to the Sound Sampler Page. Step through the menu via the function keys or joystick - the currently selected option is highlighted. As Andrew Trott points out: 'You're much more likely to be able to have a joystick next to you when you're working than a whole computer set-up'. The first page, System Index, offers nine possibilities, selected either from the computer Function and Return keys, or, very sensibly, from joystick - a rationale used throughout the System. Loading time of the Editor program is about 1½ minutes - par for the course on the sluggardly 1541 drive. Round the back, you've got the 26-way IDC ribbon connector (to the 64's cartridge slot), MIDI In/Out Dins, and a single Jack socket for Audio out (line level). Housing two programmable 24dB/octave filters along with the ADC/DAC hardware, the unit gives a very respectable S/N ratio of 59 dB, rising to an even more respectable 88 dB with the software-selectable companding switched in.įront panel controls (which apply mainly to the Digital Delay mode - of which, more later) consist of Gain, Repeat (number of), Mix, (the balance between clean and delayed signal), Output level, and a mic/line jack in socket. The sampling unit itself is a neat, (8' x 5½' x 3' - W x D x H) blue and cream-finished plastic box.

#Vox popoli glitch software

Future plans also include software updates, and extensive Sound Library releases. This add-on is expected to cost 'no more than £20'. A Sync box, connecting to the 64's User Port, will also be available, allowing the sequencer to sync to an external drum machine (24ppqn) and featuring 8 Trigger Outs, thus allowing it to also control external synths, sequencers and so on. Trott has already established a formidable reputation as a 64 programmer, with his Mikro Assembler utilities package.Īt present, the basic Microvox package consists of the sampling unit itself, the system disk, (which also contains some 'start-up' samples) and a Library disk of more sampled sounds. So it was that a few days later, gadget inventor and owner of the fuzzy beard, Andrew Trott, paid me a visit to give a sneak preview of the unit - which should be available by the time you read this.

Clearly, a closer look at the gadget was in order. Even in the less-than-ideal circumstances of a busy show, the quality of the sampled sounds filling the air, together with the lack of background noise, was remarkable. Not just another sampler, I hear you cry.

Upon closer inspection, I saw a gangly, fuzz-bearded young man, clearly having the time of his life blasting said sonic melange from out of the humble CBM64.

Wandering around a Commodore Computer show recently, I noticed a crowd gathering round one stall from whence came a disturbing mixture of drum sounds, people coughing, and, unmistakably, DX7 presets.