D16 - Nepheton

The classic 808 drum machine now in plugin form.

It's the perfect emulation of the 808 + so much more.

D16 wowed the music production industry with their software plugin recreations of the TB-303 and TR-909 and now the legendary TR-808 gets the same top drawer treatment.

Meticulous recreation brings you an uncompromising 808 sound packed with a case full of additional features only available on the plugin.

Whether your flow means you need flexible individual outputs for each channel or you're looking for full midi control with ultra-tight midi timing, D16s Nepheton improves on the original at every turn and with 17 individual drum modules at your disposable you get the full 808 sound experience in the advantage of the drum-plugin format.

• 17 fully recreated drum modules
• Perfectly scaled knob ranges
• Enhanced control of each instrument modules sounds
• Flexible, dynamic output reassignment including Master Out and Trigger Output
• True “disable/off” mutes & solos for each module: save on CPU!
• Fully controllable via MidiCC
• Quick midiCC assignation with MidiLearn function
• Multiple control variations:
  • external mode (note mode)
  • internal sequencer (pattern mode) with 2 submodes
• External mode:
  • user-defined midi map (default set equal to General Midi)
  • note velocity controls modules' levels
• Internal sequencer:
  • 96 simple patterns
  • 16 extended patterns (12 basic rythms and 4 intros/fill ins) with 4 segments per pattern
  • each segment can be defined with one of four available measures
  • each step can be defined normal or accented
  • ridiculously fun “Shuffle” mode
  • tap mode
  • built in Randomizer (module-specific, with frequency of occurrence)
  • patterns can be imported and exported as user-readable xml files
• Two clock sync modes:
  • precise DAW tempo sync
  • internal clock sync - ranges from 30-303 BPM (+-0.1)
• Preset manager for easy preset saving, sharing and loading

System Requirements:

Windows PC

• Win 7, Win 8, Win 10, Win 11.
• 1.5 GHz with SSE (2.0 GHz multicore recommended)
• 4 GB RAM (8 GB recommended)
• VST compatible main application Digital Audio Workstation (32bit or 64bit)

 

Mac OS X

• OS X 10.7 or later
• Intel -based CPU with 1.5 GHz (2.0 GHz recommended)
• 4 GB RAM (8 GB recommended)
• AU / VST compatible digital audio workstation (32bit or 64bit)