MATRIXSYNTH: JoMoX XBase 888


Saturday, December 15, 2007

JoMoX XBase 888

"XBASE 888

Hoping to continue the grand tradition of these unique and intuitive analog instruments, while at the same time updating their abilities with the latest technologies, we are proud to introduce the JoMoX XBASE 888, our newest analog drum machine. It combines the ultimate vintage sound with a modern, intuitive interface for both modern studio and live requirements.

· 9 Instruments
Bass Drum, Snare Drum, Lo Tom, Hi Tom, Hi Hat, Clap, Rim, Crash and Ride. All instruments are polyphonically playable and have individual outs. From HH section onwards it's short 8-bit samples played back with an analog envelope. The sample flash ROM contains 31 samples per instrument, so there's a total of 155 samples.

· Real analog sound production
on BD, SD, LT and HT with digital control, means storeability and midi-controlability of all parameters. To make the disturbance of analog circuitry as small as possible, all D/A converters are specially adapted to the circuits and being integrated - with proven XBase/AirBase technology.

· 16 knobs
Sound editing is made by endless rotary encoders for every analog parameter which lets you edit the sounds without any jumps or awkward turning jobs.
Close to each knob there is a 3-color LED indicating which parameters for the selected instrument are editable.

· Improved kick drum
The most famous sound of the old XBase09 was actually the kick drum. We have even put a parameter on top and provided the most wicked bass drum in the world with a compression value that lets you decide between a 909-style ultra compressed envelope or an 808-ish exponential curve.

· Analog tom toms
For the beat freak there is also some extremely good sounding and widely editable analog tom toms included.

· Internal step sequencer
The XBASE 888 has the genious step sequencer build in already. There are some improvements to the old products: all patterns are A/B patterns, and it's your choice if it's 2 alternating 16 step patterns ore one 32 step pattern. The sequencer is made up by 3-color LEDs to indicate the individual step edit modes known from the XBase09 even better and more intuitive.
The micro shuffle can now be edited for each instrument individually.
Bank select has now an own switch. 4 banks with each 16 A/B patterns are made available, which results in 128 actual 16 step patterns.

· Stereo mix with pan control
All instruments except for kick drum can be panned in the stereo bus. If a plug is inserted to an individual input, the signal is spared out of the stereo bus.

· External midi tracks
As with the XBase classic there are at 4 tracks to control external devices by programmable midi notes.


· 2 LFOs
Of course the XBASE 888 has again two phat LFOs that can be beat syncronized or run freely and can be routed to any destination.

· Hi Hat Filter
The Hi Hat section contains a great sounding analog band pass filter with independend lowpass, highpass and resonance controls. Other than the 8-bit HH samples, analog noise can be the sound source as well.

· 2x24 Character LCD display
For a more convenient and clear operation the XBASE 888 has a big alphanumerical LCD display. Kits can be named and the analog step sequencer has a bar display.

· Flash sound ROM
The sound flash memory in the percussion section (HH, Clap, Rim, Crash, Ride) which contains 31 samples per instrument can be overwritten by the user via midi sample dump in order to create own samples.

We provide a free tool that converts your *.wav or *.AIFF samples into the right formatted XBASE 888 structure and lets you dump your own created short samples into the XBASE 888.


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6 comments:

  1. Did I read that right???No Cowbell??

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  2. can't find a link to it on the jomox homepage.

    no cowbell??? there must be one in the sample set some place..

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  3. this is just another 999 without the filter. it even has an identical description. i wonder if any of the synthesis is even dialed any different. at least from this information, seems like a really boring and lame reason to change the name to 888. i appreciate the discounted model without the filter... but come on... is that it?

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  4. Heh, I think it's a good thing to remove the filter, call it the 888, and have it be cheaper overall. There's a lot of new competition coming on board.

    On any note, their description should had merely been "Jomox 888, everything the 999 is without the filter." Everybody's reading it and going man I've already read that somewhere only to realize it's the 999's description. Heh! Too funny.

    -d

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  5. It needs more cowbell

    http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e300/downtempo73/ferrell.gif?t=1197814653

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  6. There's not that much competition out there... I mean the MFB 503 is not a competitor... not enough is known about the Boomchik...and even if it is close in sound...Jomox can't compete when DSI stuff is sold in chain stores and Jomox isn't. What else is there? Elektrons are totally different.

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