Drum machine · macOS · Windows · Linux · iOS · iPadOS

6A6

Eight synthesised voices. Four skins, each its own instrument.

Drumatixfor full control
Long Exposurefor inspiration
Tyrellfor touch
Pucksfor thinking outside the box

Coming soon

For Mac, Windows and Linux, and for iPhone and iPad on the App Store. At launch: a free 14-day trial, and a 14-day refund, no questions asked.

DrumatixLong ExposureTyrellPucksFor full control. The TR-606's aluminium and red: eight voice strips, FX and master, and the sequencer, all on one page.For inspiration. Each voice is a bundle of night light trails, drawn by its own parameters.For touch. A vacuum-fluorescent screen whose bars are the controls, with big keys around it. The default on iPhone and iPad.For thinking outside the box. The pattern is a tray of pucks; every value is a stack of coins.

What it does

The machine, up close.

Every picture is the real interface. Pick a skin with the dashes under any picture and the whole page follows.

01
8 voices, fitted to a real TR-606
Bass drum, snare, low tom, hi tom, closed hat, open hat and cymbal, plus a hand clap. All synthesised, no samples, matched hit for hit against a real TR-606. Each with its own controls and sends.
02
Drive on every voice
Every voice has its own drive and seven distortion types: Diode, Clip, Sat, BFZ, P.Dist, Fold and Crush. Drive fully down is exactly dry.
03
Lanes that slip
Every lane has its own length, 1 to 64 steps, and its own rate, 1/4 to 1/32 with triplets. Swing from 50 to 75%. A pattern generator fills them; you keep what grooves.
04
Delay, reverb, master
Delay with 13 synced divisions, reverb, master distortion, drive, compressor, velocity depth and hi-hat choke.

iPhone · iPad · AUv3

6A6 for iPhone and iPad.

The same engine and the same four skins, laid out for touch. Runs as an app or as an AUv3 inside your music app. One App Store purchase works on both devices.