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BoomChik
An Analog + Digital Drum Machine currently in development from Dave Smith & Roger Linn

Dave and I annouced this work-in-progress at his booth at the January NAMM show. In our weekly meetings of the Dead Presidents Society), we've been discussing for a while the idea of doing a product together and figured a drum machine with both analog & sampled sounds would be fun. This picture is only a 3D rendering I made up, but it shows the direction we're going in our development. This design will no doubt change and we're still probably a year off until release, but we decided to put this up on our sites to get feedback and start spreading the word. Click on it to see a high-res picture and learn more about the details.

The basic idea at this point is that it will have 4 analog voices similar to Dave's Evolver, using either the analog oscillators or samples as sound sources, plus a number of digital voices that model the analog ones, in total giving a very unique and interesting sound. The price will be somewhere in the $1000 to $1500 range.

Sorry I can't answer any questions about this at this time so please don't submit any. However, if you have any realistic suggestions for this product, we'd welcome them at support[at]rogerlinndesign.com. (Replace [at] with @.)

By the way, if you're not familiar with Dave's Evolver line of synths, check them out at www.davesmithinstruments.com.