QD – Quad Drum Voice

QD – Quad Drum Voice

  • 4 digital drum voices in a 22hp compact module
  • every voice can be a sample player, a wavetable VCO or a digital drum model
  • control of pitch, decay and sample selection per voice
  • uSD card slot, up to 1536 samples total, up to 128 samples per drum voice under CV control
  • digital models offer range of kicks, snares, hats, strings and other percussive sounds
  • 4 trigger inputs
  • 4 assignable CV inputs
  • 4 mute buttons and a very intuitive and powerful control interface
  • 4 internal LFOs or mod envelopes than can be synced to triggers
  • internal 4 channel mixer, 2 output channels
  • internal 3-band equalizer and compressor

check out QEX – QD Quad Drum Voice Expander too

firmware v1.11:

QD – Firmware Update – v1.11.1

QD – Quad Drum Voice – User Manual for firmware v1.11

firmware v.1.10:

QD – Firmware Update – v1.10.7 – a lot of new features (v1.10.0+), scroll down for details!

QD – Quad Drum Voice – User Manual for firmware v1.10

QD – Quad Drum Voice – memory card content description  (files)

QD cheat sheet by synthdawg HERE

QD on ModularGrid

firmware update log:

v1.11.1:

  • fix: ignore “V/Oct for sample selection CV” in single sample mode

v1.11.0:

  • added “master volume”
  • allow to autoplay and loop a sample forever
  • allow to set the sample start point using the MOD pot (and CV and LFO)
  • swap choke behaviour, (3 chokes 4, then 1 chokes 2)
  • at startup, show folders with unsupported and/or fragmented samples
  • QEX: a new setting allows a trigger on QEX CV2 to trigger all 4 voices at the same time! (see here)
  • see the updated manual!

v1.10.7:

  • fix the bass drum model #1 misbehaving with double triggers
  • fix crash when changing presets with CV

v1.10.4:

  • fix preset recall for voices using wavetables

v1.10.1:

  • fix QEX settings color

v1.10.0:

  • added support for QEX – QD Quad Drum Voice Expander
  • added SuperSaw VCO as 16th digital model
  • added resonant low pass gates for samples/wavetables
  • added extended pitch range for
                samples: +/- 2 octaves and wavetables: +/- 3 octaves
  • added “choking”, one voice can stop (choke) another
  • added documentation for “easter egg” features in manual:
                Reverb and EXTRA parameters
  • even more stuff, see the updated manual

v1.9.0:

  • increase total number of samples to 1536

v1.8.1:

  • fix “click” noise when enabling/disabling EQ

v1.8.0:

  • fix “click” noise at end of the decay envelopes

v1.7.1:

  • minor fix

v1.7.0:

lots of new stuff:

  • increase from 32 to 48 sample/wavetable banks, if you don’t want to delete the factory content you can still add your own samples/wavetables
  • 44.1 kHz files are pitched up to match 48Khz
  • if a folder has RANDOM (uppercase!) in the filename, every trigger will pick a random sample from that folder, the MOD pot controls the amount of randomness
  • GATE MODE: in this mode, the decay envelope will only start when the trigger/gate signal goes low
  • COPY and DELETE presets: you can now copy one preset to another slot or delete a preset

See the updated manual for all details!

QD – Quad Drum Voice – User Manual for firmware 1.7

v1.6.0:

  • even more fixes reading more certain WAV files 🙂

v1.5.0:

  • more fixes reading more certain WAV files
  • ignore . (DOT) files and folders

v1.4.0:

  • fix reading certain WAV files

v1.3.0:

  • fix 808 kick drum model sometimes locking up

v1.2.0:

  • minor bugfixes
  • improve compatibility with WAV files created by certain DAWs

v1.0.1:

  • minor bugfixes

v1.0.0: