XY Pad

The touch-sensitive XY pad offers real-time performance effects, right at your fingertips, for dramatic transformations of your beats.

The Filter allows you to process your entire mix through an 8-mode filter. This includes 5 modes from our TAE® Oberheim® SEM filter plus our great-sounding low-pass, high-pass and band-pass filters.

The Slicer gives you amazing beat slicing, reverse playback, deep tape-drop effects, strobe, beat-sync pans, bit crushers and more. This unique performance tool will give you more hands-on live control than you’ve ever had with any other drum machine.

Instrument Knobs

Each instrument track (above each pad) is controllable thanks to 3 knobs. These encoders give you in-depth access to the sonic parameters.

Each knob is already pre-assigned, but you can also remap it to your liking onto 6 different sound parameters.

These 6 key parameters differ depending on the type of synthesis used for that particular instrument, making each instrument's response unique.

Looper

Spark's advanced Looper is perfect for creating live breaks. The Looper acts on the pattern position itself, allowing you to repeat sections of a pattern at the press of a button.

The Divide and Move functions allow you to set the size and the position of the loop within your pattern. You can shift these in real time to create all kinds of new and interesting beats that will keep the people on the dance floor.

This feature alone can take a show from good to great. There’s an astronomical number of ways to twist and tear up your beats when using the Looper in conjunction with the XY pad.

TAE® Analog Synthesis

Part of the sound engine embeds our TAE® technology, which stands for True Analog Emulation. TAE® is an unprecedented way of modeling and creating the specific sounds from classic analog synthesizers such as the Yamaha CS-80, Roland Jupiter 8 or Oberheim® SEM.

Incorporating this award-winning technology has allowed us to recreate all the punch, warmth and thickness of the sounds from the most sought-after analog drum machines in the world.

Physical Modeling

Physical modeling is a technique of synthesizing the properties of natural objects when they are struck or plucked. At its most basic level it allows you to create very dynamic and accurate acoustic sounds. But physical modeling can be pushed to create wild, new sounds the world has never heard. This gives a whole new method of sound creation that no other drum machine can offer.

Digital Sampling

Sample playback technology is the bread-and-butter of a drum machine, and this little machine delivers it in abundance. You can layer multiple samples to create vast sound collages or set the layers to split across velocity, cycle through the samples or trigger randomly.

The inclusion of post-processing templates such as filters and Bode Frequency Shifters makes for some great sonic possibilities.

It's library includes multi-layered acoustic drums, deep dance/trance hits and a plethora of sound effects and instrument stabs.

It even lets you drag and drop your own samples onto pads and then chop, layer and edit them within its sound engine.