Asteroid Snare Drum MK2

Blue Lantern Modules

Drum

TR-606 Inspired Snare Drum. Official Mass Production Release

MODEL: ASTEROID SNARE DRUM MK2
WIDTH 16HP
CURRENT: +48mA -45mA

What does this do?
This is a sound generator module with 3 oscillators + noise generator. This module is a complete mini synthesizer that can easily produce snare drum sounds. A 'trigger' signal is patched in order to hit the snare drum. The bottom row contains an internal mixer where you mix in 2 shell generator oscillators, one thud oscillator, and a noise generator.

The Trigger input is level sensitive. Lower voltages will result in quiet snare sounds. You can
use this to simulate accent.

The Filter on the 'Impact' signal path was carefully designed just for snare drum tone control. It sounds very nice. It will not self oscillate, but the Q control can go very high in frequency. It has a 12db High pass Filter and a 12db Band Pass Filter. There is CV control for the cutoff and CV control for the internal VCA.

I added an auxilary audio input on the filter. You can mix external sounds.

The tone of this module is very hollow. It simulates wood like snare sounds.

What this module can not do:
-FM modulation of the internal vco's
-track 1V per octave
-increase the decay legnth of the vco's. 808 like.

This module will always remain in snare land. You can not make it sound like a lead synth. This is a good thing. No menu diving, and the snare is always ready.

History of the design:

The Asteroid Snare drum started out on bread board as a TR 606 snare drum. That design only contains one oscillator, a transistor based noise generator, and a 'clipper' brute vca. It is a nice efficient old design, but it is too simple and boring. I decided to add (2) of the original oscillators, and replaced the noise generator with a digital based noise generator to make sure all production units were alike. The snare drum still was missing fullness, so I designed an addition oscillator called 'thud'. The poor vca from the original design was removing all the additional harmonics, so that was replaced by a OTA based vca, and I added tonal controls to the IMPACT signal, and the THUD signal path.

A 12db analog filter was recently added in the singal path of the Impact circuit. Audio input was also added, with a static internal HPF on this input. The Aux input will sound metal like by default.

All of this amounts to about 200+ smt parts. Far exceeding the original design. I don t think there is another analog snare drum out there with the Asteroid Oomph.
price: $189.00