d16 Group has released version 1.0 of Drumazon and announced a price drop for both Drumazon (€129) and Phoscyon (€59). They can be purchased together as a bundle for €159. Phoscyon has also been updated to v1.5.7 (changes unspecified).

Drumazon is an emulation of the classic Roland TR-909 drum machine / beatbox, offering all the original functions plus many additional features. Since the first pre-release version was announced Drumazon has undergone several big changes, including improving the instrument models, adding new controls and many other new features.

Features:

• Emulated instruments' synthesis.
• Perfectly scaled knob ranges with few modifications enlarging spectrum of the sounds.
• Enhanced control of instruments' sound.
• Dynamic signal routing from instruments to outputs.
• User defined plugin output settings.
• Mutes/solos for each instrument (affect triggering not just the signal).
• Fully controllable via MIDI CC.
• Quick MIDI CC assignation with MIDI Learn function.
• Many ways of controlling the device:
  1. External mode (note mode):
     • MIDI map equivalent with the classic drum machine's map.
     • MIDI tune and velocity controls instruments' levels and tunes.
  2. Internal sequencer (pattern mode) with 3 sub modes:
     • 8 banks with 12 patterns per bank.
     • Each pattern up to 16 steps of length.
     • Each pattern defined with one of four available measures.
     • Each step can be defined normal or flamed and accented or not.
     • Shuffle mode.
     • Flam mode.
     • Tap mode.
     • Chain mode.
     • Shuffle, Flam and TotalAccent values defined globally and per pattern.
     • Scale function and intelligent Rescale (automatically stretches pattern to the chosen measure).
     • Built in Randomizer (selection of instruments to random, steps to be affected, frequency of the randomized notes and more).
     • Patterns import/export via human readable xml files.
• Two modes of synchronization:
  1. Precise synchronization to the host tempo.
  2. Synchronization to internal clock - tempo controlled in the range 30-303 BPM (+-0.1).
• Individual presets per instrument with preset manager to easy control.

Drumazon is available as a VST instrument for Windows and Mac OS X Universal Binary. Demo versions are available.