Neutral Labs Scrooge and Digitakt II - live electronic performance
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A live synthesizer jam performed entirely on hardware.
Fair warning: Neutral Labs sent along the Scrooge for me to try out, after I'd had such a good time with their Elmyra 2. The Scrooge is a wild duck: I guess you could call it a drum machine, but its sounds get really wild, like raw electricity running through circuits.
The Scrooge's voices don't require any power at all, and can produce sound just by "poking" it from other devices with CV/gate. When you power it, though, you get a pretty killer sequencer and a lot of "control-all" power to shape both sound and sequencing during live performance.
The Scrooge is quite unapologetic about what it's going for, not trying to be every drum machine for every situation; instead, it's a glitchy electrical monster that can add a lot of rhythm to a song.
Here, I paired the Scrooge with the Digitakt II, and they turned out to be great friends. The Scrooge has MIDI in for synching and transport control, and the unpredictability/performability of the Scrooge paired well with the sound shaping of the DTII.
I feel like a person will be into the Scrooge sound or not, and that's OK. For me, I love the sound of electricity running through circuits, and glitchy percussive sounds, so I had a lot of fun with the Scrooge.
Performer: Elektron Digitakt II - eight drum samples, eight melodic samples, sequencing, effects
Guest Performer: Neutral Labs Scrooge - five analog glitch/drum voices, sequencing
- Performed and recorded live.
- Mixed with EQ, compression, and limiting on the master.