[sdiy] calling all 808ers

[Byron G. Jacquot]

>I have a recently aquired 808, which I am loving immensely.
>
>There is something that I have a question about though,
>
>The bass drum when at high decay and fast ish speeds has an un even decay 
>time  
>
>for the hits.  so it sometimes sounds like it has accent on the kick, and 
>then other times like it has half the decay setting.

Mine does the same thing...if you program a lot of bass drum notes near each
other, some of the notes are a lot quieter than others.  It's almost like
having a compressor with a really long attack time, which kicks in and sucks
some of the notes away.

> Someone told me that if the circuit is still oscillating when it recieves 
>the next trigger   the decay will be longer if it is caught on the up swing, 
>and shorter if on the down swing.

Turn the attack way up (so you can see the spikes on the retriggers), then
record a little of this phenomena into a computer, and look at the
wave...I'd always just assumed it was like you mention, with the retridder
out of phase with the decaying note...report back if you try this!

Byron Jacquot