[sdiy] Deep thoughts on Old drum machines: the "VCA"

[Benjamin Tremblay]

… In other words give me an ACB synth I can re-arrange to create my own new sounds: let me borrow the pulse generator from the 909 kick and combine it with an amplitude-modulated cowbell at half normal pitch. Let me pump a sample of a rim shot through a simulated T-filter and add compression. Let me assign all of this to knobs. And for god’s sake, keep it off my laptop.