Still it produces a lot of potentially nice noise in the higher frequencies. The internal 8 bit process of MicroDrum emulates a logarithmic DAC stage and a 24dB anti aliasing filter, so it sounds as good as it can with 8 bit. With 8 bit there are only 256 steps for the amplitude value at a given moment. The other important factor is bit resolution. The higher the ( Down) parameter, the lower the sample rate and the more gritty and low-fi the sound will become. What makes the specific sound of 8 bit drum computers is the low sample rate, which can be emulated with the ( Down) parameter, a value of 2 means at 44.1kHz that the sample rate of the non-detuned drum sample equals 22.05kHz. Since Version 1.7 samples can also be transposed via MIDI notes when trigger is set to ( All). There is a volume envelope for shortening the decay ( Decay), and an anti aliasing filter ( HiCut). Tuning can be continuous or only happen at note start ( Q). Tuning can be quantised to semitones using the step function ( S). Samples can be tuned up and down two octaves ( Tune). Samples can be truncated at the beginning, facilitated by the zoom ( Zoom) function which displays only 10ms of the drum sample, starting from the start point ( Start). This MaxForLive devices needs Ableton Live 9.x Suite.
A rough emulation of an old school 8 bit drum sample cell with some ideas borrowed from Roger Linn.
