Jade Starr Music

Bruno Drum Synth

by Glenn Vassallo

Layered drum and pluck synth with four engines and smart randomization

Aug 16, 202622 minWatch on YouTube ↗

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  1. 1:15Voice selector (kick, snare, hat, clap, tom, pluck) and preset browser
  2. 4:37Exporting a layered kick as a sample or a chromatic multisample
  3. 5:11The four engines: analog, FM, fold and resonant, each with noise
  4. 8:02Per-engine dice and tweak buttons for random variations
  5. 13:48Per-engine drive, delay and EQ, then the master chain presets
  6. 17:12Mild and wild generate, chromatic mode and the tweak strength settings

What it does

A drum and pluck synth that layers four engines per voice: analog, FM, wavefold and resonant, each with its own noise, envelopes, filter, LFOs, compressor, drive, delay and EQ. Six voice types retune the engines for kick, snare, hat, clap, tom or pluck, and a master bus adds saturation, transients, reverb and a limiter. Sounds export as single samples or chromatic multisamples to apps like Koala or Loopy Pro.

In the demo

Jade works through one kick engine at a time, then leans on the dice and tweak buttons, and the mild and wild generate recipes, to build sounds she saves as presets. She shows the per-section help pages with built-in tips.

Worth knowing

It is a sound source, not a sequencer, so patterns come from the host. The companion Marco Synth shares the same layout, and the two are sold as a bundle.

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