So, Heartbeat keeps it both realistic and simple, and if extreme tweakability is what you want, you’ll need to seek it elsewhere.
There aren’t a ton of knobs for every drum element, with the number of sound generation controls (before the sounds hit the mixer) ranging from three to seven. The sounds aren’t drastically more tweakable than an analog drum machine would be – the pitch control on the 808-style kick goes up and down by approximately a minor third, for example. Layering and processing can also be used to make more modern drum sounds – extra instances of Heartbeat panned left and right with different settings are very useful for making more complex drum sounds, such as modern layered snares. On the other hand, the kicks can get more modern and harmonically rich, and it’s certainly possible to generate something like a contemporary big room kick or a huge saturated 808. There aren’t a whole lot of control parameters to play with, and what’s on offer tends to stick (for the most part) to what would have been possible with hardware drum machines back in the 80s. So, I’m not personally a big fan of vintage drum machine cymbals, but if you want that raw and simple nostalgic sound, Heartbeat does deliver, and the sound can vary in flavor from a crash to a ride cymbal.Īll the sounds are essentially vintage in tone and character, so don’t expect to instantly make Pryda snares. Cymbals have always been very tough to synthesize and vintage drum machine cymbals were very limited – even the TR-909 included a very small sample data table in its cymbal circuit. The cymbal is probably my least favorite, because it definitely sounds realistically vintage. These can do anything from 70s synth toms to a variety of Latin percussion and even a nice synthetic church bell. Instead, each percussion module has five synthesis modes ranging from a single triangle wave to fixed-ratio frequency modulation with added noise. The two percussion elements are identical to each other and do not use any samples. Aside from that, though, the hi-hat is quite flexible and can do anything from very short, percussive clicks to more acoustic sounding hi-hats. There are no intermediate degrees of hi-hat openness (as on an acoustic drum kit). One hi-hat channel does both closed and open hi-hat sounds which mute each other automatically, so that you can’t hit an open hi-hat and a closed one at the same time. The hi-hat module also features both samples and synthesis.
The pure synth waveforms can even sound like those zippy old snares created on old-school monosynths. Whereas the kicks are basically 909 and 808 flavored, the snares can sound like a wider variety of classic Roland and non-Roland drum machines. Both are hybrids of sample playback and synthesis (this is not “bad” by any means – for example, the classic Linn drum machines used samples as well) with blend controls for both the sample and synth parts, which means that each snare sound is a mix of four components. The snares also come in a pair. One of the two available snares also does rimshots, whereas the other one also does claps. An easier way to use both kicks at once, though, is to make one extremely short kick and have it add a noisy attack transient to the other kick. So, if you want to do something like that, you’ll have to make an 808 sound tuned to a note, export it to a WAV file and sequence the 808 part in a sampler.
However, because the 808-style kick and its controls are quite vintage, it’s not really easy to play a bassline that hits specific notes, and thus not possible to do modern tricks like bending the pitch up by an octave during the decay phase of the 808 kick. Having both a regular kick and an 808 seems like it would be useful for making modern trap where the 808 is used as a bass. Both can do short thumpy kicks as well as longer ones, and the low end can get really powerful with the right settings. One is similar to the Roland TR-909 drum machine and the other to the TR-808.
The two kicks are both mighty and fat, in a vintage way. There are two kicks, two snares, a closed/open hi-hat, two percussion channels, and one cymbal for a total of eight elements. Heartbeat is not an emulation of any specific vintage drum machine, but rather an amalgamation of emulations inspired by various machines.
LINN DRUM EMULATOR MAC PC
It’s a 32-bit and 64-bit compatible VST/AU/AAX plugin for PC and Mac based plugin hosts. Softube Heartbeat ($169) is a modern plugin take on classic drum machines of the 70s and 80s.
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