#DIRTY DRONELOWLIFE

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DIRTY DRONE LOWLIFE - a subbass / drone / noise texture generator

The Dirty Drone Lowlife is an experimental subbass and drone texture generator. It can be manually triggered by a TRIGGER button and externally with a TRIGGER/GATE input. The DECAY has a SHORT/LONG switch to select the range and a DECAY pot to fine tune it, from snappy to loooong. An orange LED indicates triggers and the decay (only dim with short triggers on long decay settings). With the DRONE toggle switch it can be set to play a constant drone sound as well. The sound's waveform is generated by two oscillators each with an array of possible settings: TRIANGLE/SQUARE and CLEAN/DIRTY toggle switches and of course a FREQUENCY control. Oscillator 1 has an additional OFFSET control, that can (in the range from 1.6V-2.6V) also get modulated by external control voltage via the CV input (with an orange indicator LED). Both oscillators are mixed with the BLEND control, that allows to shape the output waveform in a relatively linear manner, but the build in LDRs (Light Dependent Resistors) can also be used for that, when they are selected with the BLEND SELECT toggle switch, the user can ‘throw shade’ or ‘shine light’ on the build in sensors for a non-linear modulation of the oscillator BLEND. so it is possible to modulate the sound by hand gestures, for example. After that the signal runs through a resonant low pass filter with CUTOFF FREQUENCY, RESONANCE and SATURATION control. (please, keep in mind that in trigger mode it does not get completely quiet with no trigger.) In the end of the signal chain is a VOLUME control. Build into a die-cast aluminum enclosure painted with an unique 'burned out industry' camo pattern. Power-socket: 9V DC , 2,1mm DC jack boss-style (inside -/+ outside) PSU is NOT included. Handmade by GRM for METSÄÄN. Sold. Here’s demovideo of a previous build: