Akai 'Tom Cat' / 'Timbre Wolf'

ddiamond84 · 2021-02-16T04:16:58.721Z

Very kind of you to say! I’ve never posted a video before. It was just a quick jam, I’ll check that artist out!

ddiamond84 · 2021-05-25T12:26:28.449Z

Still loving the Timbrewolf!

I love the timbrewolf. I love the sequencer, the sound, the fact that it has individual outs. It’s cheap, crude and limited and I have such a soft spot for it!

ddiamond84 · 2022-06-13T04:47:44.143Z

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Timbrewolf sounds amazing, especially through the Dr A delay and reverb!

ddiamond84 · 2022-06-26T17:55:02.783Z

I’m telling you all, the timbrewolf will eventually be sought after! Not to the extent of a 303, but if people looked at it for what it can do and not what it lacks…

It’s absolutely awesome!

Hope it’s ok to start this thread, the other one shares it with the tom cat and I thought it deserves its own thread.

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Automageddon · 2022-06-26T17:58:44.819Z

So, what makes is so special?

BelterCremebrulee · 2022-06-27T01:03:20.811Z

I have a Timbre Wolf and the only special thing I’ve found about is that the resonance acts more like a bandpass filter. Which is not a feature and really limits it, but also makes it easy to make formants when in unison mode. So it’s fun to make sounds like this:

Clancy · 2022-06-27T07:07:33.795Z

BelterCremebrulee:

make sounds like this:

Nice. Are you manually tweaking the cutoff on two voices there?

Claid · 2022-06-27T07:51:47.809Z

The Akai Jaw Harp!

L · 2022-06-27T08:28:43.336Z

@Claid somewhere between a jaw harp and a digeridoo

BelterCremebrulee · 2022-06-27T11:43:55.178Z

Nice. Are you manually tweaking the cutoff on two voices there?

Yep. One is at max resonance and the other about 75%. I would love to have some filter CV ins on this.

natehorn · 2022-06-27T11:50:41.609Z

tbf this kind of makes me want one lol

BelterCremebrulee · 2022-06-27T15:33:38.947Z

A little while back I put this didge jaw harp patch to a trap beat. It cracked me up. It’s a patch that makes me laugh for some reason.

DonovanDwyer · 2022-06-27T15:35:53.916Z

That is pretty badass.

L · 2022-06-27T18:36:13.541Z

It’s a cool idea. I sampled your thing earlier and gave it some mid drive through a distortion on the mpc and it got almost 303ish. Really interesting sound with the rhythmic stuff. Definitely weird but I’d love to give the actual synth a spin. Is it an analog filter? I’m no electrical engineer but wouldn’t a cv mod be within the realm of possibility?

BelterCremebrulee · 2022-06-27T19:25:42.262Z

That’s awesome. Would love to hear a clip of what you did if you want to post it here. It is an analog filter. In fact the Timbre Wolf is “very analogue” in a way that it feels like it was designed by an engineer who hasn’t figured it out quite yet. Like the low end is really dense, in an organ-ish way. I always have to roll off the low end. So it actually sounds very warm, but gets muddy quick. There’s a guy on YouTube I saw a while back who added a bunch of CV mods to his, it seems like someone could easily add stuff to it. I have barely any familiarity with a soldering iron though…

Kirz · 2022-06-27T20:24:17.064Z

anderton’s old logo on the first post - it’s so 2000’s for sure

ddiamond84 · 2022-07-01T03:49:38.211Z

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I bought a backup!

johnl · 2022-07-01T20:07:32.710Z

I’d love to a single-synth-album made with the Timbre Wolf, just to show it’s possible.

And here’s one:

BelterCremebrulee · 2022-07-01T21:15:24.685Z

Nice! The one thing the Timbre Wolf did is get me hooked on the four voice format. I have eyes on a Perfourmer next.

BelterCremebrulee · 2022-07-12T01:31:09.754Z

All the sounds (except the drums of course) in this thing I was playing around with tonight are Timbre Wolf.