Sample drum machine
deton8
deton8 is a compact drum machine with a nasty little engine: crunchy 8-bit samples, wavetable synthesis, hands-on stutter moves, and enough immediacy to turn rough ideas into finished patterns fast.
Small box, big impact
Eight voices cover kicks, snares, metallic hits, claps, toms, noise, and a dedicated synth lane. The sound is deliberately characterful: tight when you need punch, broken when you want damage, and direct enough to sit at the center of a live hardware setup.
Stutter modes, modulation, delay, ring modulation, swing, reverse, copy, paste, and quick pattern moves make deton8 feel playable instead of static. It is built for changing the beat while it is moving.
Upload and customize your own kits
The web kit editor turns deton8 into a much more personal instrument. Load a kit, replace sample slots, preview every sound as a waveform, clear weak hits, and build a custom bank that actually matches your music.
Drop in your own audio, reshape the slots, save custom .d8 kits, and send the result to deton8. Kit building stops feeling like file management and starts feeling like sound design.
Patterns on the fly
The pattern editor gives you a clean 16-step grid for all eight voices, with randomize, clear, copy, paste, save, song length, and slot controls close at hand. Build a beat visually, mutate it quickly, and keep ideas moving without losing the hardware feel.
Use deton8 for stripped-back drum programming, damaged electro patterns, chiptune percussion, or as a compact rhythm brain in a larger rig. It stays immediate, but the editor gives it the kind of depth that keeps it useful long after the first jam.
Highlights
- Hybrid drum machine combining crunchy 8-bit samples and wavetable synthesis
- Eight voices covering drums plus a dedicated synth voice
- Web kit editor for uploading audio, replacing slots, previewing waveforms, saving custom .d8 kits, and sending them to deton8
- Web pattern editor for on-the-fly 16-step beat building, randomizing, copying, clearing, and saving patterns
- Load Factory and Electronisounds kits or build completely personal kits from your own sounds
- Hands-on stutter performance modes for real-time destruction and variation
- Delay, ring modulation, swing, and modulation for shaping movement
- Pattern chaining for longer song structures
- USB MIDI, WebSerial kit transfer, and hardware sync for easy integration with other gear
- Hand-assembled to order in France
Editor + demos
Upload kits. Build beats on the fly.
Custom kits
Upload sounds and make deton8 yours.
Open the deton8 editor, load a kit, and reshape the sample slots visually. Replace weak hits, preview waveforms, clear slots, and build a bank that matches the track you are writing.
- Upload and customize samples for the drum voices
- Preview every slot with waveform feedback before saving
- Save custom .d8 kits and send them to deton8 from the browser
Patterns on the fly
Turn ideas into patterns fast.
The pattern editor gives you a clean step grid for all eight voices, with randomize, clear, copy, paste, save, song length, and slot controls close at hand.
- Build and edit 16-step beats visually while keeping the hardware workflow
- Randomize patterns when you need a spark, then refine the hits manually
- Copy, clear, and save ideas quickly during a session
Support
Manuals, firmware, and tools.
Everything you need to update it, learn it, and keep it moving.
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