BASTL InstrumentsPizza Crust Drum Voice

BASTL Instruments Pizza Crust

The latest spin on their Pizza platform, Bastl's Crust is a heavy-handed drum voice with potent sonic capabilities. To effectively emulate the characteristics of real percussion instruments (and beyond), Crust offers you two synthesis layers to work with: Noise, and a dual-oscillator Tone generator. The Noise source offers a few different flavors from straight white noise to clap and metallic sounds, with a morphing lowpass-highpass filter for sculpting everything from snares to cymbals. As for the Tone source, the oscillators may be arranged into different configurations including FM, FM2, dual, and ring modulation. Pitch envelopes and detune let you dial in punch and thickness, while the Layer slider allows you to blend between Noise and Tone as needed. Timbre and Clip stages give you more sonic sculpture opportunities, with multiple ways to shape the transient or sustained portions of your drum tones. And with the ability to swap to any other Pizza module, Crust is sure to be another delicious Bastl addition to your rack.

Pizza Crust Features

• Complex drum synthesizer
• Based on Bastl's Pizza platform—supports swappable firmwares
• 2 oscillator Tone generator
• 4 Tone algorithms: FM, FM2, Ring, and Dual
• Filtered Noise source with four modes: White, Bit, Clap, and Metallic
• Layer crossfader for volume and envelope control
• Versatile ENV knob for amplitude curvatures
• Timbre section with Filter, Clip, and Shape params
• Clip section offers hard cipping or bass boost
• Shaper with body or transient emphasis
• Assignable CTRL knob and CV input