JASON DONNELLY: Jason Donnelly here with Gearwire.Com, and once again we are here with the Future Retro Revolution, and in this scenario I’m going to run an external audio signal through the Revolution using its onboard DSP and filter. And then right here is my Rave-o-Lution, not to be confused with the Revolution. The Rave-O-Lution will be playing drumbeats a bassline, and that will come out and into the Revolution, and the Revolution will then be going out to my mixer.

Let’s take a look at the back panel. So here is the Revolution audio input. This is the output from the external source, the Rave-O-Lution drum machine. Over here we have our main audio out. This is going to the mixer, and then I have a MIDI in to sync this box to the drum machine, so this will be set to external sync and it will slave to the drum machine.

We’re now going to turn the Revolution on, push the song button, push the MIDI button, and by default that would be set to internal. You have an up and down arrow here. Select up to external, exit your MIDI, and now this device will slave to an external device and will sync.

Okay, so on this channel here, I have the processed signal from the Revolution. This is the drum machine, the actual beat that’s being processed. I’ll show you the difference between the two.

[JASON DONNELLY PLAYS DRUM MACHINE TRACKS THEN SOLOS FILTERED DRUM TRACK]

Here’s the filtered beat on this channel.

[JASON DONNELLY INTRODUCES THEN SOLOS UNFILTERED DRUM TRACK]

Here’s the unfiltered beat on this channel.

[JASON DONNELLY PLAYS DRUM MACHINE TRACKS, ALTERNATES EMPHASIS BETWEEN FILTERED AND UNFILTERED DRUM TRACKS, AND THEN MIXES BOTH DRUM TRACKS]

So now that we have our cables connected and MIDI set to external on the Revolution, press the play button, and that puts it in play mode. It’s waiting now for the master device to tell it to start playing, so now I will hit play on the drum machine.

[JASON DONNELLY PLAYS DRUM MACHINE TRACKS]

Now they’re both in sync.

[JASON DONNELLY STARTS PROCESSING DRUM TRACKS FROM THE QUASIMIDI RAVE-O-LUTION USING THE FUTURE RETRO REVOLUTION]

Speaking here what it’s doing to the sound, right now I’m using a low pass filter.

[JASON DONNELLY PROCESSING DRUM TRACKS FROM THE QUASIMIDI RAVE-O-LUTION USING THE FUTURE RETRO REVOLUTION]

We also have a chorus and reverb...,

[JASON DONNELLY PROCESSING DRUM TRACKS FROM THE QUASIMIDI RAVE-O-LUTION USING THE FUTURE RETRO REVOLUTION]

...delay...,

[JASON DONNELLY PROCESSING DRUM TRACKS FROM THE QUASIMIDI RAVE-O-LUTION USING THE FUTURE RETRO REVOLUTION]

...a very [INDISCERNIBLE] delay...,

[JASON DONNELLY PROCESSING DRUM TRACKS FROM THE QUASIMIDI RAVE-O-LUTION USING THE FUTURE RETRO REVOLUTION]

...chorus...,

[JASON DONNELLY PROCESSING DRUM TRACKS FROM THE QUASIMIDI RAVE-O-LUTION USING THE FUTURE RETRO REVOLUTION]

...flanger...,

[JASON DONNELLY PROCESSING DRUM TRACKS FROM THE QUASIMIDI RAVE-O-LUTION USING THE FUTURE RETRO REVOLUTION]

...plate reverb, plate reverb...,

[JASON DONNELLY PROCESSING DRUM TRACKS FROM THE QUASIMIDI RAVE-O-LUTION USING THE FUTURE RETRO REVOLUTION]

...room verb, another plate, another room, another room, a hall...,

[JASON DONNELLY PROCESSING DRUM TRACKS FROM THE QUASIMIDI RAVE-O-LUTION USING THE FUTURE RETRO REVOLUTION]

...another hall, and back to my low pass filter.

Once again, press play on the Revolution that activates play mode, and now it’s waiting for the master device to start. I press play on the master device.

[JASON DONNELLY PROCESSING DRUM TRACKS FROM THE QUASIMIDI RAVE-O-LUTION USING THE FUTURE RETRO REVOLUTION]

Now as you can see there, completely in sync.

[JASON DONNELLY PROCESSING DRUM TRACKS FROM THE QUASIMIDI RAVE-O-LUTION USING THE FUTURE RETRO REVOLUTION]

Into the Rave-O -- sorry. [INDISCERNIBLE] Why do I have to use these two pieces? It’s all too much alike.