Afterhours

What it does

• Bass lines with accent and slide

  Each bass-line synth runs a saw or square oscillator into a 4x-oversampled diode-ladder low-pass. Both have accent and slide.

• Drums synthesised from scratch

  Both drum machines build every hit from resonators, shaped noise and six-oscillator metal voices, all synthesised in code.

• 32 patterns per section

  Each section holds 4 banks of 8 patterns, 1 to 16 steps long, with shuffle per pattern. Cut, copy, paste, clear, shift, random, alter and transpose work on any of them.

• Song mode records every knob move

  Pattern changes land on the downbeat, and knob moves record at 32nd-note resolution. Punch in on a single control to redo just that part.

• Four effects

  Distortion goes on any section. A rhythmic filter runs 55 patterns, followed by a compressor and a tempo-synced delay.

• Play it from MIDI, export loops

  Channels 1 and 2 play the synths, 10 and 11 the drum machines with GM drum notes. All 127 panel controls are automatable and MIDI-learnable, and loops export as WAV.