Review The Spec Trilogy: retro computer instruments from Rhythmic Robot
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Review The Spec Trilogy: retro computer instruments from Rhythmic Robot
For the Spec Trilogy, Rhythmic Robot went right to the source: a vintage Sinclair ZX Spectrum, and sampled it’s offerings in every way for your chiptune composing pleasure.
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The Facts
SpecDrum 2000, SpecTalk and SpecTone all capture the early 80s “in the box” chip sounds with all the “grainy and shinily aliased” and have been ported to 3 kontakt instrument (full copy of Native Instruments Kontakt v4.2.3 required)
SpecTone is a vintage chip music tone synthesizer with controls over the envelope, a knob to morph from Synth Wave to Circut to Vocal Wave and 5 “vowel” variations (with vibrato). SpecTone also has a built in BitCrusher, Filter a Drive distortion and a Compressor.
SpecTone is available from Rhythmic Robot for £2.50
SpecDrum 2000 hthe first release of the Spec Trilogy was sampled from the Cheetah SpecDrum expansion module of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum thoght of as the “next best thing to a Linn Drum” for those tinkering in their basments in the 80’s, the SpecDrum was a hardware drum sampler that used its own electronics to handle the sampling bit and Rhythmic Robot has captured it beautifully – Dinosaur and all!
SpecDrumm 2000 is available from Rhythmic Robot for £5.00
Last but not least is the SpecTalk the vocalization robot voice that has inspired generations. With just about every consinant and vowel you can think of as well as some phrases this is the very sofisticated yet monotone robot voice.
