Sunshine Jones

MODWERK BD MODULE
// The Poly8 module and the BD module weren’t cooperating together in a given firmware build for me. Since polyphonic samples are my priority for a sampler, I decided to forego the BD module, and began corresponding with the developer to see if I couldn’t help get them working together.

The Poly8 was taken down this morning, and so I’m hoping that means they’ve figured something out and will bring it back better than ever. But that fave me some of this morning to explore this BD module.

It’s a machine, loaded like you would load a flex or static machine. Once loaded the track has two options instead of samples: 1. TR-808 and 2. TR-909. And that’s it. A superb bass drum with attack, tone, pitch, tune, decay, overdrive, and sweep. These are great bass drum sounds.

Fig.1 The 808 bass drum tuned (with delay)
Put some headphones on. Dig this. Yesssss

Fig.2 The 808 bass drum basics

Fig.3-4 are the screens for this module.

Fig.5 The 909 bass drum overview

Fig.6 Some play and mangling of the 909 bass drum.

And that’s it. So simple, but these sounds - at least on the Octatrack mkI - really give the real thing a bit of a run for their money. Superb sounds.

I’m looking forward to this working well with the Poly Machine and trying them together.

Note: the BD module is not compatible with the E-Verb module either. I was hoping to have them both, E-Verb also replaces the dark reverb. That doesn’t bode well for me including it, but I might like to at least check it out.

I hope these little run throughs are helpful.
Remember: take care, back everything up, and go slow.

#octatrack #modwerk #bd