Plugin Boutique has introduced an unique sale on Audio Damage’s Axon 2, an experimental drum synth pushed by synthetic intelligence.

Axon makes use of a modified synthetic neural community as a sequencer and options seven FM-based percussion voices that additionally buss collectively to create a single monolithic advanced percussion synthesizer.

If that sounds bizarre, you ain’t seen nothing but. It’s surprisingly intuitive when you get the knack of it, and is able to all-new, advanced rhythms that repeat in stunning methods. It usually will get referenced as a “random sequence generator,” however there’s nothing random in Axon; it’s completely determinative.

The sequencer options seven “neurons” that set off a voice and ship a pulse once they have acquired a predetermined variety of pulses. You’ll be able to wire the output of any neuron to the enter of some other (with built-in loop detection to stop runaway suggestions) and on this method pre-program the factitious neural community with out having to undergo a “studying” part.

The seven particular person drum voices, every triggered by its attendant neuron, are 2-operator FM voices in a configuration to finest make percussion sounds, with extra FM and AM busses that each one voices ship to and obtain from. Every voice has an HPF, distortion circuit, and white noise generator to offer a full vary of percussion-oriented voicing individually whereas interacting with one another in new and distinctive methods.

Axon 2 is accessible for Home windows and Mac (VST/VST3, AU and AAX), priced solely $35 USD as an alternative of $59 USD till January thirty first, 2022.

Extra data: Audio Damage