DREADNOUGHT

• Ten instruments cover Reese bass, a dirty mono synth, two break players, two samplers, six-operator FM, wavetable and a Juno-style polysynth.
• Eight tracks each hold eight patterns of up to 64 steps, with per-step note, length, velocity, conditions, retrigs and chords.
• Record live at the nearest step with a click and count-in, or step by step while stopped.
• Break tracks slice loops in time, chop them MPC-style by hand, and carry per-hit effects like stretch, stutter and tapestop.
• SONG chains rows of patterns across all tracks for an arrangement of up to 64 rows.
• Two effect slots feed from each track's sends, offering delays, reverbs, filter, phaser, chorus, crush, ring and drive.
• SAVE keeps sounds, patterns, slices, song and layout, and it all comes back at power-on.
• The web editor over USB sends loops, samples, DX7 banks and Serum wavetables, and stores whole projects on your computer.

Its modes

HOME

See all eight tracks with their instruments and sounds, open one, or pick a new instrument for it.

ROLL

Edit a synth, sampler or MIDI track's piano roll, tapping steps on the white keys and holding one to set its values.

DRUM

Lay slices or sampler pads across the steps on a grid, with length, swing and the steps in view.

BRK

Set a break's loop, pitch, decay and crush.

SLICE

Chop a loop by hand, hitting keys as it plays and nudging each chop with the cursor.

FX

Pick the two effects and set their values, with each track's sends and the returns on MIX.

SETUP

Set the click, its level, the count-in and velocity sensitivity, and change the screen's skin.

MIDI

Choose each MIDI track's channel, its overlap, and whether USB carries a stereo mix or ten channels.

PROJECT

Watch sample and effect memory and the CPU load, and name the project.

SONG

Build rows of patterns for every track, each lasting a set number of bars, and play them in turn.