Bastl Instruments B Drum Kastle at a glance

The Kastle Drum from Bastl Instruments is a miniaturized, patchable drum synthesizer with industrial-like glitch drums. In the same case as the Kastle 1.5, it again offers a lot of functionality in a small space. Drum patterns are built somewhat unorthodox with a few patch connections, programming grooves in the device is not provided. If you want to control the cool sounds from a Eurorack sequencer, you can feed the necessary triggers via the I/O socket. This socket can be used for signals of all kinds (clock, trigger, CV, audio...) and works input as well as output. The synthesis provides for no less than eight different drum models, additionally a noise generator is available, which is most suitable for snare and hi-hat. The dynamic envelope has a very percussive behavior. The lineout is powerful enough to drive headphones.