d16 Group has released version 1.0 of Drumazon and announced a price drop for both Drumazon (€129) and Phoscyon (€59). They can be purchased together as a bundle for €159. Phoscyon has also been updated to v1.5.7 (changes unspecified).
Drumazon is an emulation of the classic Roland TR-909 drum machine / beatbox, offering all the original functions plus many additional features. Since the first pre-release version was announced Drumazon has undergone several big changes, including improving the instrument models, adding new controls and many other new features.
Features:
- Emulated instruments' synthesis.
- Perfectly scaled knob ranges with few modifications enlarging spectrum of the sounds.
- Enhanced control of instruments' sound.
- Dynamic signal routing from instruments to outputs.
- User defined plugin output settings.
- Mutes/solos for each instrument (affect triggering not just the signal).
- Fully controllable via MIDI CC.
- Quick MIDI CC assignation with MIDI Learn function.
- Many ways of controlling the device:
- External mode (note mode):
- MIDI map equivalent with the classic drum machine's map.
- MIDI tune and velocity controls instruments' levels and tunes.
- Internal sequencer (pattern mode) with 3 sub modes:
- 8 banks with 12 patterns per bank.
- Each pattern up to 16 steps of length.
- Each pattern defined with one of four available measures.
- Each step can be defined normal or flamed and accented or not.
- Shuffle mode.
- Flam mode.
- Tap mode.
- Chain mode.
- Shuffle, Flam and TotalAccent values defined globally and per pattern.
- Scale function and intelligent Rescale (automatically stretches pattern to the chosen measure).
- Built in Randomizer (selection of instruments to random, steps to be affected, frequency of the randomized notes and more).
- Patterns import/export via human readable xml files.
- External mode (note mode):
- Two modes of synchronization:
- Precise synchronization to the host tempo.
- Synchronization to internal clock - tempo controlled in the range 30-303 BPM (+-0.1).
- Individual presets per instrument with preset manager to easy control.
Drumazon is available as a VST instrument for Windows and Mac OS X Universal Binary. Demo versions are available.