JOMOX xbase 888

9 Instruments

Bass Drum, Snare Drum, Lo Tom, Hi Tom, Hi Hat, Clap, Rim, Crash and Ride. All instruments are polyphonically playable and have individual outs. From HH section onwards it's short 8-bit samples played back with an analog envelope. The sample flash ROM contains 31 samples per instrument, so there's a total of 155 samples

Real analog sound production

on BD, SD, LT and HT with digital control, means storeability and midi-controlability of all parameters. To make the disturbance of analog circuitry as small as possible, all D/A converters are specially adapted to the circuits and being integrated - with proven XBase/AirBase technology

16 knobs

Sound editing is made by endless rotary encoders for every analog parameter which lets you edit the sounds without any jumps or awkward turning jobs. Close to each knob there is a 3-color LED indicating which parameters for the selected instrument are editable

Improved kick drum

The most famous sound of the old XBase09 was actually the kick drum. Now the the kick of the XBASE 888 has got an adjustable pitch envelope. With this you can create 808-like slow pitch decays. The decay time constant is changed. The compression parameter is useful to control between a 909-style ultra compressed envelope or an 808-ish exponential curve

Analog tom toms

There are also some extremely good sounding and widely editable analog tom toms included as known from AirBase99/JaZBase03/XBASE 999. Furthermore, they got an adjustable pitch envelope, too

Internal step sequencer

The XBASE 888 has the genious step sequencer build in already. There are some improvements to the old products: all patterns are A/B patterns, and it's your choice if it's 2 alternating 16 step patterns ore one 32 step pattern. The sequencer is made up by 3-color LEDs to indicate the individual step edit modes known from the XBase09 even better and more intuitive. The micro shuffle can now be edited for each instrument individually. Bank select has now an own switch. 4 banks with each 16 A/B patterns are made available, which results in 128 actual 16 step patterns

Stereo mix with pan control

All instruments except for kick drum can be panned in the stereo bus. If a plug is inserted to an individual input, the signal is spared out of the stereo bus.

External midi tracks

As on the XBASE 999 there are at 4 tracks to control external devices by programmable midi notes

2 LFOs

Of course the XBASE 888 has again two phat LFOs that can be beat syncronized or run freely and can be routed to any destination

Hi Hat Filter

The Hi Hat section contains a great sounding analog band pass filter with independend lowpass, highpass and resonance controls. Other than the 8-bit HH samples, analog noise can be the sound source as well. New: instead of pure white noise you can create a great number of different metalized tonal noise signals tweaked by 2 parameters which can be source for snare or hi hat

2x24 Character LCD display

For a more convenient and clear operation the XBASE 888 has a big alphanumerical LCD display. Kits can be named and the analog step sequencer has a bar display

Flash sound ROM

The sound flash memory in the percussion section (HH, Clap, Rim, Crash, Ride) which contains 31 samples per instrument can be overwritten by the user via midi sample dump in order to create own samples

We provide a free tool that converts your *.wav or *.AIFF samples into the right formatted XBASE 888 structure and lets you dump your own created short samples into the XBASE 888

Specifications

- 9 instruments: Bass Drum, Snare Drum, Hi Tom, Low Tom, Hi Hat, Clap, Rim Shot, Crash, Ride
- Analog kick, toms, snare
- 5 sample based instruments with analog VCA envelope
- 31 samples per instrument (HH has 2 Samples) per instrument - 155 total
- HH Filter: In the hihat section an extra analog filter may be inserted. Signal source can be wether sample or noise. HP/LP cutoff are adjustable, resonant capable
- LFOs: 2 of which are assignable to different parameters
- Own samples can be uploaded by the Jomox Editor
- Midi: Midi In, Midi Out, Midi Thru
- Outputs: 10 individual outs, stereo mix, headphone
- Output Level: about +4dBu at max. volume on all outputs
- 18 encoders
- Phones Volume
- LCD Display 2x 24 Characters
- 10.5V 2A ~AC external power supply
- Metal steel enclosure
- Wooden end cheeks
- Weight 5kg

Sound Demos : All - Demo1 - Demo2 - Demo3 - Demo4 - Demo5 - Demo6