Professional, compact and portable analogue drum machine that is the brainchild of legendary instrument designers, Dave Smith and Roger Linn. It generates its sounds using six powerful analogue synthesis voices, and uses an innovative, performance-oriented operating system that permits an extraordinary level of control to create, edit, arrange, and manipulate beats in real time without ever stopping. The performance-oriented operating system, ninety panel controls, and bright 256 x 64 dot OLED display work together to provide a tightly integrated, non-stop workflow. Each of the six analogue voices has two analogue oscillators plus two digital oscillators (with a large bank of included samples), the classic Curtis analogue low-pass filter with audio-rate modulation, an additional high-pass filter, analogue VCA with feedback, five envelopes, two LFOs, an extraordinary variety of analogue modulation routings, and stunning sonic quality, warmth, and punch. Although optimized for drum sounds, it excels at tuned sounds as well, and even doubles as a six-voice analogue keyboard synth. Sixteen pressure- and velocity-sensitive lit pads are arranged in a 2 x 8 configuration, providing intuitive access to all fingers and the ideal compromise between the popular 4 x 4 pad arrangement (popular for real-time programming ) and 1 x 16 arrangement (popular for step programming) because this unit does both. The pads can be used to play thirty-two drum sounds (two banks), mute/unmute the thirty-two sounds on playback, play and arrange sixteen beats in real time, play one sound at sixteen tunings (in a variety of scales) or sixteen velocities, or as sixteen time steps for step programming. In addition to the six stereo direct voice outputs, there are stereo mix outputs and phones outputs, plus two inputs for foot switches or expression pedals, MIDI in/out and USB. Two pressure- and position-sensitive Note FX slide controllers permit real-time recording of note or beat-wide sound parameter changes into the drumbeat as user plays. A variety of unique effects are provided while maintaining a pure analogue signal path including stereo analogue compressor and distortion circuits that affect the stereo output mix or beat-synced delay that is achieved by generating additional delayed note events within the sequencer. A beat-synced “stutter” effect is created entirely within the sequencer by looping short portions of the drumbeat on demand. Dimensions: 391 x 228 x 64 mm. Weight: 2.95 kg.