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Access Virus And Access Atomizer: Access Staff Jams Out At Winter NAMM 2008

February 04, 2008
Jamming With Access

We're back at the Access booth at Winter NAMM 2008, this time with Jason Donnelly in the middle of an existential coincidence. In the process, he walks in on a Glitch / Acid jam session that features Access staff playing a Roland TB-303 [with Devil Fish Mod] and a TR-606 through an Access Virus and mangled with Access Atomizer.

Not familiar with Devil Fish Mod? Here's what it adds:

  • CV and Gate inputs.
  • CV input to turn on Slide [V2.1D onwards: > 2.3 volts turns on the Slide circuit and > 4 volts turns on Gate to tie notes together]
  • CV input for Accent
  • CV input for Filter Frequency
  • Output for Accent
  • Audio In to filter
  • Audio In to frequency modulate the filter
  • Audio Out from filter [pre-VCA]
  • Overdrive pot to control the level of oscillator going to the filter: zero to 66.6 times normal level
  • Separate control of Main Envelope Generator times in accented and non-accented notes
  • Volume envelope is no longer fixed, and can be varied from 16 msec through three seconds -- and to no decay at all, i.e. for notes which last indefinitely
  • Soft Attack control gives attack times between 0.3 and 30 msec [TB-303 attack was ~3 msec]
  • Slide time is variable to five times longer than normal
  • Variable Filter Tracking causes the oscillator CV to control the filter frequency
  • Internal Filter FM: a unique approach of AC coupled Filter FM from the audio output of the VCA
  • The Muffler is a unique post-VCA soft-clip distortion circuit which retains bass response
  • Push-button to manually activate Accent
  • Filter can be switched to self resonance
  • Accent Sweep has three modes and can be disabled
  • Filter Cut Off pot range doubled to 5 kHz max, and widened to include much lower frequencies
  • Env Mod pot range extended to include zero and go as high as three times the normal maximum
  • Bass response is improved
  • Lithium battery for at least ten years battery backup, so there is no need to install C-cell batteries
  • The six TB-303 knobs Tuning to Accent are mounted about 1.5mm higher than normal, which makes them easier to turn

Visit Access' official website for more information, or check out DJ Puzzle's official website for more sweet groovin'.

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truly inspiring! and so

By: lesha (not verified)

truly inspiring!

and so f*cking wiiiiiccckkkkeeeeeeeeeeeeedddd !!!!!!!!!!

richard is the man :noddingmyhead:

Fri, 2008-02-15 09:21

that was

By: bholland

awesome. I love glitch.

Fri, 2008-02-15 14:23

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JASON DONNELLY: Hi. This is Jason Donnelly, Winter NAMM '08, and I'm here for Gearwire.Com, and I stumbled in on a very rare instance here at the Access booth. This is sort of a Glitch/Acid jam. We've got some vintage gear and we got some new cutting edge software that will be available soon from Access.

What's your name?

RICHARD DEVINE: Uh, [PH] Richard Devine.

JASON DONNELLY: Richard Devine. Oh! You wanted to buy my Cwejman.

RICHARD DEVINE: Oh, you're the dude!

JASON DONNELLY: Yeah.

RICHARD DEVINE: That's [SOUNDS LIKE] great man!

JASON DONNELLY: And I ran into this guy on eBay. Right on man. Richard Devine. Richard Devine.

And what's your name, sir? Ben?

BEN CROSSLAND: Yeah.

JASON DONNELLY: Okay. [PH] Ben Crossland, and they're jamming out, man. This is wicked. Jason Donnelly with Gearwire.Com.

[ACCESS BOOTH SYNTH JAM]

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