Lorentz Drum Mk I
A six voice sample based drum machine with nine kits and unique features for trimming and stretching samples to discrete note durations.
Overview
Lorentz Drum Mk I is a six voice sample based drum machine with nine built-in drum kits. Each drum voice can be trimmed, stretched, reversed, sent to a tempo synced delay and mixed. The drum machine also features a module level high pass and low pass filter.
Trimming & Stretching Samples
Each voice of the Lorentz can be trimmed from the start and end points of its waveform. To trim or expand the playable region of a sample, click and drag from either side of the waveform visualization. A short region can isolate a click or transient and a longer region keeps more of the drum’s decay.
The dots, resembling pie charts, to the right of the waveform visualization adjust the duration of the sample as a note length. A note length expresses a duration at the current project tempo. Clicking a dot selects a duration corresponding to whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth and 1/32 notes.
This is where the Lorentz begins to deviate from a typical drum machine. Samples are stretched and squished to fit into note lengths. This can result in very rhythmic textures that start and end exactly on beats.
It should be said that because the playback rate is being adjusted to "fit" the sample into a note duration, the pitch of the drum is also affected. Further, changing the project tempo will also affect the pitch of stretched or squished drums. Selecting the empty circle to the right of the note duration options will disable this effect.
Effects, Filters & Mixing
Each voice of the Lorentz can be sent to a tempo synced delay using the Echo send dial. Additionally, each voice can be mixed using the Level control. All voices are sent through the high pass and low pass filters before the delay, which can be tuned using the two dials in the Filter section.
Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Default polyphony | 6 |
| Maximum polyphony | 6 |
| Tonal scale support | No |
| Velocity support | No |
| Sustain support | No |
| Voice allocation | One shot |
Controls
| Control | Description | Default | Minimum | Maximum | Units | Options |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kit | Selects the drumkit sample bank. | Acid King | kit menu | |||
| High Pass | Sets the high pass filter cutoff frequency. | 20 | 20 | 20000 | Hz | |
| Low Pass | Sets the low pass filter cutoff frequency. | 20000 | 20 | 20000 | Hz | |
| Delay Feedback | Sets how much delayed signal feeds back into the delay. | 0.5 | 0 | 1 | Gain | |
| Delay Mix | Sets the level of the delay return. | 0.5 | 0 | 1 | Gain | |
| Delay Time | Sets the delay time as a tempo synced note value. | 1/4 | Notes | 1/32, 1/16, 1/8, 1/8., 1/4, 1/4., 1/2, 1m | ||
| Preview | Plays the sample voice directly from the module UI. | button | ||||
| Waveform Start | Sets the start point within each sample. | 0 | 0 | 1 | position | |
| Waveform End | Sets the end point within each sample. | 1 | 0 | 1 | position | |
| Note Duration | Retimes each sample voice to a tempo synced note length. Empty keeps the original playback rate. | Note Length | 1m, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, unset | |||
| Reverse | Reverses each sample voice. | false | true, false | |||
| Echo | Sets how much of each sample voice is sent to the delay. | 0 | 0 | 1 | Gain | |
| Level | Sets the level for each sample voice. | 0.8 | 0 | 1 | Gain |