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Comments About the Sounds:
All sounds have individual level controls with additionalcontrols available on the following sounds:Bass drum - tuning, decay, attack (attack seems to add anextra click sound rather than than controlling the actualattack time).Snare - tuning, tone (seems to be a lowpass filter but alsoaffects decay), snappy (seems to alter the white noise mixbut also affects attack).Toms - tuning and decay (tunning ranges for each tom overlapnicely - I've been using them for jungle basses).Hi Hats - separate decay for open and closed sounds.Crash cymbal - tunning.Ride cymbal - tuning.Subjectively the bass drum sounds cleaner and has moreattack compared to an 808, but the decay is not as long. Thesnare is very versatile. It can be low and fat, or high andthin, or low and thin/high and fat for that matter. Youcan have short and bright or long and dark or just about anycombination of the above. Turn snappy, tone and tunningright down and it sounds like a cardboard box.The toms when tuned down with a long decay sound like D&Bbass sounds, and when tuned up with a short decay likesynthetic congas. The rim shot is a rimshot (but it cutsthrough the mix). The handclap is remarkably lifelikeconsidering it's totally analogue.