Behringer is working on improvements to the firmware to include pitch shifting for all the samples. This is not a for sure thing yet, it depends on implementation, but their engineering is working on it. They current have tunable options for the snare, three toms, and two congas. This would then include the option to do this with everything else.
They posted this on their FB and Instagram pages.
ADDED : I see that even with the existing firmware there are alternate ways to tune just about any sample. The firmware change probably would make this more straight forward, and easier to do though.
ADDED TWO DAYS LATER : Wow that was fast. The developers at Behringer have already made the changes suggested and have a firmware release underway! ( Source - Behringer on FB. )
For those interested in more on the engineering of this system,
go back to ElectronicFurâs original post for some nitty gritty technical details on the LM Drum.
Really nice work. You can see the care they take to be able to produce their gear so cost effectively, and with volume. This is a difficult thing to do, itâs a craft that many engineers never have the chance to learn, nor really understand.
They had an image of the E-mu version of this on their FB page ( which i decided to not include here ). They werenât prepared with a mock up image of a Behringer product, so maybe this is a new inspiration now. This has come out ( ostensibly) from reaction to FB posts by Behringer on the LM Drum, and people asking about an SP1200.
Seems tp me they have many aspects of this project ready to reassemble in this kind of a package.
LOL â they didnât even bother changing the font on the outputsâŚ
It would be nice to at least acknowledge the source of all these module designs. Not a word of recognition on the product pages of these modules⌠[EDIT: Iâm wrong â see Avantronicaâs note below]
itâs much nicer in this topic when itâs people contributing who are happy not keen to look for offence etc ⌠we have other topics for that, which i, for one, ignore
iâm excited about this, but the first comment on it here is sour (and as it happens incorrect)
Youâre right â I looked at the Steps page and actually did a search for âmutableâ and nothing showed up. Afer I saw your comment I explored the web page some more and found I had to âunfoldâ the âProduct Featuresâ tab for that text you reference to appear.
Mea culpaâŚGlad to see theyâre acknowledging whose design it is.
Behringer is taking feedback on another late 70s effects box. According to the Take the Fear Out the Gear guys ( queued video ) Behringer is asking for ideas about doing the MX-129 Pitch Transposer originally from MXR.
Iâm guessing this is is being asked about on their private FB page, which i donât have access to. Seems to me if they did do this theyâd do the optional digital tuning display too, as is shown in the picture.
I found an Alex Ball video on the original which shows the strange potential for this effects box.
This should be doable by Behringer, given there is a technical description released by one of the original developers, who is also still living apparently. You could reproduce this by redoing the digital circuit in software, but given this is done as would have been done in the late 70âs as a collection of jelly bean digital logic parts, it also could more authentically, but still cost effectively, be replaced with some small programmable logic device. I also think you could probably give an optional higher quality sound mode too, and build in some other effects.
The touch sensitive control knobs should be done with this as well of course.
Think of the Mutronics box they released fairly recently.
Now these are the real deal of remake clones if you ask me!
What are the chances weâd get a desktop version of the Jupiter? I could justify that one since Roland obviously wonât give it to us and ISE NIN is a bit too expensive for what it does and the built quality.
