DUST

What it does

Fewer bits and a slower clock: BITS from sixteen down to two, DOWN dividing the sample rate by up to sixty-four. The sound of memory running out. On a drum it is grit; on a pad it is a texture; at the extremes it is a different instrument.

BITS 10 and DOWN 2 is a gentle vintage
DOWN 16 on a hi-hat turns it into a ring

ON THE TOUCH PAD

As CRUSH: X is DOWN, Y is BITS; As DUST: X is BITS, Y is DOWN. Touch to engage, lift to let go, HOLD to keep it.

Where it goes

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Four to a socket, in order: sound runs through the slots top to bottom. Open the box and every knob is in real units; BYPASS takes it out of the path without losing its settings; the presets are along the top; any knob learns a controller and gets an automation lane.

The knobs

2 KNOBS · REAL UNITS

Knob	Range	Starts at	Scale
BITS	2 to 16	8	linear
DOWN	1 x to 64 x	4 x	linear

The presets

9 IN THE BANK

Every box ships with a bank. AS SET is the knobs as you left them; the rest are starting points, each a sound someone wanted often enough to name. Star one and it sits at the front of the bank.