MFB 523 Drummachine in the Works

via Sequencer.de where you'll find the details in German. The following is translated via Google Translator:

"Analog instrument:
Bass Drum 1: 503 kick with improved filtering, noise, and 16 different transient attack (improved with noise filter,, 16 attack transients)

Bass Drum 2: 522 kick with 16 different transient and disconnected keynote (like 1 but can be switched off tonal part)
Snare Drum: 503 and 522 snare with advanced parameters, 16 different noise and metal tapestries (for snare and metal noise almost like 503)
Rimshot: 522 Like (unchanged)
Claps: 909 with more parameters like length, such as att, noise flag permanently, long, stereo (noise control decay, attack, more than 909 parameters)
Cymbal: 522 Like
HH 522, but like with noise and 14 other samples (sample-based hi-hats)
Low Tom / Conga: 522 like but with noise-miscible (mixable Noise)
Mld Tom / Conga: 522 Like
High Tom / Conga: 522 Like
Clave 1 & 2: 808 clave variable (s) decay and tune
Timbales: tunable and decay (decay and tunable added)
Maracas: 808 style

volume for each instrument potentiometer (volume control for each instrument)
2 cv / gate sequencer / trig tracks, 1 with additional acc cv (2 cv / gate tracks with one additional track accent)
master out plus 6 ind. outs, claps and toms in stereo

2 midi in, midi out, soft thru

Sequencer:
running light principle with 16 patterns with up to 16 contacts, metrics individually adjustable per instrument (chase light style)
muting of instruments
real-time recording of sound parameters
roll / flam functions
shuffle and shift functions, total, and instrumental events as
real-time recording
functional accent
glide functions of sound parameters, and portamento effects by lfo
mute groups (bd / hh)
of adding a box office keyboards
pure hardware-wise without display
timing fluctuations of less than 0.5 ms
potis are no endless controllers, so the best performance. All user-changeable and live!
template for lemur (i pad)

housing in the dominion chassis, maybe even design a scaled-down variant in the old plastic.
price / €: 800 under €
release: end 2012 demos: summer 2012"

http://www.mfberlin.de/