JoMoX Alpha Base Analog Drum Synthesizer

Nice nuts you got there, son.

Seriously though, looks way better with them. Hadn’t previously realised how bare they looked without them.

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How do you install them? do you need to open it up?

Phenx! :slight_smile:

It was very hard to firstly find out the correct specs for nuts and then to find thin enough ones on the net. Jurgen didn’t help at all, didn’t respond to my questions so i had to order several times from another end of the world. Really Jomox?! And non of them could fit.
At the end i realized that my OB-6 has nuts on its jacks that could fit so at the end good ppl from Sequential helped me with confirming the specs.
Anyway, it’s much better with nuts, i agree! And it’s rock solid now! No more wiggle!

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No, nothing. Just screw on the nuts. I recommend buying the washers too tho

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Maybe someone can find black nuts and black plastic washers to help protect the finish of the metal casing.

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I also found black metal round/ring nuts that come with black washers but the washers are to wide for AB. I couldn’t find black plastic nuts that were thin enough; it would probably be close to impossible to make plastic ones that are thin enough: 12 mm inner diameter and less than 15 mm outer diameter

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Sorry for the editing… my iPhone is beyond buggy

That potentially puts extra stress on the board, no?

Doubt that it would if you are careful

Same for me so it’s probably a software problem.

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I just got my Alpha Base yesterday. Damn this thing sounds good. I’m really happy the AB MKII and TR-1000 drove the prices down :wink:

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Brand new? Any encoder jitterinesss?

Nah, a used MKI. I didn’t notice jitteriness thus far, something I’ll look for today!

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Would you be interested in doing this to the slimmer nuts and washers?

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The slimmer nuts are zinc coated so i wonder would it work with them

I took two nuts off my machinedrum and put them on the stereo out on my AB :slight_smile:

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It would be great if JOMOX released a 6 channel sampler expander, no sequencer, only 6 channels of sampler with

  • faders/knobs for start/end (like on the akai s612)
  • pitch, volume
  • analog filter with knobs for cutoff/reso

simple device to add 6 sampler channels with analog filter

Hey guys, I have two questions. I bought an ABmk2 last week and am using it in conjunction with a Digitone 2. The Digitone is master and distributes clock, transport, and notes to external synths. I disabled note and CC receive in the AB, but when the Digitone sends MIDI notes from a MIDI track, for example, to MIDI channel 3, which is assigned to hi-hats according to the AB’s internal settings, I can hear some MIDI messages leaking into the AB, and some of the hi-hats are very short-lived and almost inaudible. If I disable the track on the Digitone or change the MIDI channel from the track, the AB sounds fine. I temporarily assigned other channels to the synths so they don’t interfere with the AB, but I wonder if there’s a way around this issue? Maybe there’s a way to completely unassign MIDI channels to AB’s tracks?

Second question. There’s a scene parameter on the MBrane track (where the “presets” are located). If I switch this parameter from off to any other position, the sound of these “presets” becomes extremely distorted. I updated the firmware, and the scenes started sounding fine, but a day later, something went wrong again, and they started sounding like they did before the firmware update. Have you encountered this behavior?

You could just use an Alpha Base + MIDI Controller to map out those parameters for easy access? Admittedly bulky and takes some setup but gets you close.

I use the Alpha Base in my setup without the sequencer so I’m not far off myself.

:wink:
i asked for 6 additional channels with analog filters,
not how to use a drum machine without internal sequencer :wink: