Uploaded June 2012 | Updated September 2026, 9 minutes ago
The Drumfire DF-500 is a basic 5 channel analog drum brain. It's meant to be triggered by drum pads, but I'm using a Yamaha RX5. The sounds I'm using to trigger the DF-500 aren't particularly impulsive, leading to interesting effects. It's an idiosyncratic machine; the controls respond strangely and there's some sort of cross-talk between the channels. Overall it's interesting, but not terribly flexible. Pan Sonic allegedly use one, which says a lot.
No photo, sorry.
Recorded 2008 or 2009.
The Drumfire DF-500 is a basic 5 channel analog drum brain. It's meant to be triggered by drum pads, but I'm using a Yamaha RX5. The sounds I'm using to trigger the DF-500 aren't particularly impulsive, leading to interesting effects. It's an idiosyncratic machine; the controls respond strangely and there's some sort of cross-talk between the channels. Overall it's interesting, but not terribly flexible. Pan Sonic allegedly use one, which says a lot.
No photo, sorry.
Recorded 2008 or 2009.
![Keytek CTS-2000 (Jeremy Soule - Menu [Secret of Evermore])](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BK-_4tA72aM/mqdefault.jpg "Keytek CTS-2000 (Jeremy Soule - Menu [Secret of Evermore])
Multitracked and heavily processed Keytek CTS-2000 arrangement of the menu screen music from Secret of Evermore. The idea was to do an elaborate dub mix on each track individually. Recorded 2009?
All synths: Keytek CTS-2000
Drums: Yamaha RX5, Yamaha RY30
Processing: Tapco 4400, Digitech RDS 3.6, Ibanez SDR-1000, Roland VP-70, Alesis Quadraverb, Boss PH-1, Peavey T-Max, Dave Smith Instruments Evolver, Alesis 1622
https://www.dropbox.com/s/f8fmyerfqmwu8wk/Keytek%20CTS-2000%20Menu.mp3
The CTS-2000 has a very steep lowpass filter (about 7.3 kHz) on both output channels. This is located on the front panel PCB, near where the pitch and mod wheels connect. Removing 5 capacitors per channel (5.6 nF, 10 nF, 820 pF, 15 nF, 330 pF) and retuning the VCF trimpots for a higher cutoff frequency improves the sound considerably.")
