Tekno

Supercharge your drum sound

Craft deep and massive synthesized drums – from the ground up, with total flexibility.

Use onboard humanize features to create alive beats where each hit is different.

A modern reimagination of the legendary drum machines that shaped music culture.

Produce drums without samples

Stop browsing for the perfect sample and create your own infectious electronic drum sounds instead – with total control.

Tekno offers 18 fully synthesized drum engines, spanning kicks, snares, clap, hats, percussion and more. Craft unique drum kits full of punch and analog flavor to suit any musical genre.

Use MIDI to sequence Tekno directly. Or simply drag and drop your sounds into any DAW or folder for external sequencing.

Next-generation drum synthesis

To build Tekno we teamed up with Jatin Chowdhury, one of the leading engineers in analog circuit modeling. Our goal was to create a modern spiritual successor to the legendary drum machines of the 20th century. Not an emulation, but more.

Tekno stands on the shoulders of classic drum machines but hits deeper and harder. It utilizes a combination of authentic circuit-modeling and cutting edge DSP to deliver the punchiest synthesized drums ever put in a plugin.

Deep tweaking or fast inspiration

Click the 'Gear' icons next to any synth voice or FX section to unlock deep calibration and circuit-bending options.

Or hit the onboard 'Dice' icons to let Tekno's smart random-algorithm generate all-new drums with every click.

You can also start from the 73 global presets and 1314 individual voice presets by leading sound designers such as Richard Devine, Mr. Bill, Virtual Riot and Yoad Nevo.

Each hit is unique

Tekno is a synthesizer, it generates every drum hit from scratch through a complex non-linear VA circuit. That means it never hits exactly the same way twice – a quality it shares with the classic analog drum machines (and a big part of their magic). Compare this to samples, which are just static snapshots and you'll find that Tekno's subtleties make tracks come more alive.

Tekno allows you to exaggerate this behavior further: Use the on-board humanize parameters to introduce extra variation in timbre, velocity and timing every time a sound is triggered.

Loaded with analog-modeled effects

Tekno's onboard effects have been crafted with the same care and meticulous analog-modeling efforts as the drum voices.

There are no 'copy-paste FX' in Tekno, but a unique suite of coloration tools created especially for this instrument.

Beef-up individual drums with analog-modeled tape saturation, excitation and compression. And make the whole kit shine with a punchy limiter/clipper combo that will cut through any mix.

v1.1 Update

• Brand new Sequencer.
• Choke groups.
• Freely assignable MIDI mappings.
• Global undo/redo.
• Per-voice Humanize.
• Full kit sample export.
• Per-voice randomization lock.
• Copy and paste equivalent voices (Tom L&H, Conga L&H).
• Dedicated reverb bus in multi-output mode.
• Fixes implemented for all known bugs.

Official Tutorial Video

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v1.1 Update Video
youtube.com/watch?v=TH1J3Ywh6DY