Subjective musical taste and styles notwithstanding, though I love the wide breadth of sounds I’ve heard from the Pulsar-23 since they started appearing in the wild, this is the first truly practical example, that I’ve seen anyway, of it being used as a drum machine in the context of a proper arrangement. I’d like to see more videos showcasing it this way.
Thank you for the kind words I’m debating with myself if I should use it for a performance next week or if it’s too risky as I’m still kinda figuring it out. I think it works incredibly well together with the Elektron sequencers though.
Yes basically but I think it goes a bit deeper. When sequencing pulsar with the digboxes the concepts of the two machines gel well together I think. And it’s really cool to play on top of the sequenced parts to create fills etc. Also the midi learn functions on pulsar makes it possible to use many of the Elektron style things like p-locking converted to cv
Just been given the go ahead for my Pulsar-23 but unfortunately I can’t afford it.
I asked Soma if it was possible to transfer it to someone else and they confirmed it was possible and i’ve just to let them know who.
So thought i’d ask here for anyone on the long waiting list that fancies one early. Don’t suppose with the current situation that many people have the spare cash - I certainly don’t… but i’m sure there is someone.
Started mixing some pulsar with my modular, still very much a work in progress but can confirm this drum machine is an absolute beast.
Edit: About 90% of the sound design came from the pulsar here.
Wide range of pulsar sounds in this. Everything but the break and the pad in the intro is created with the pulsar sequenced by octatrack here. The Pad is plaits sent through mimeophon and qpas, modulated by maths.