Neuzeit Instruments Drop Is a Ridiculously Comprehensive Snapshot-Based MIDI Control Center for Live Performance
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Connect all your live performance gear to one master MIDI and CV controller, the new Neuzeit Instruments Drop.
Neuzeit Instruments Drop
One drop to rule them all? That seems to be the case with the upcoming Neuzeit Instruments Drop, a dizzyingly comprehensive snapshot-based MIDI controller. Debuting at Superbooth25 next week, the Drop is the first controller from the Eurorack module company, and once you get a load of what it can do, you may not be able to wait until it’s out.
Let the Beat… Erm Drop
Neuzeit Instruments Drop is meant to be the MIDI control center of your live performance rig. To facilitate that, it’s got 32 push-encoders without detents, eight mutes and eight faders, with everything duplicated across two A/B layers. It can store 20 controller-position snapshots per bank with 20 banks total, plus macro mappings with up to eight MIDI targets and individual curves per control.
As for the name Drop, that comes from the controller’s mode of the same name. Drop the controller features an integrated master clock that counts any number between 1 and 32 bars – your predetermined cycle. In Drop mode, you can schedule a snapshot to trigger at the end of a cycle, allowing you to build tension until you reach the appointed time for the drop, when the snapshot automatically changes the controllers to their predetermined settings.
Drop also sports a Chain mode to create sequences of Drop snapshots. Use multiple Chains and Drops to create songs. It also lets you Jump between snapshots on the fly for looser performances.
Everything but the Kitchen Sync
Neuzeit Instruments has designed the Drop to be extremely comprehensive. You can merge incoming sequencer and keyboard MIDI with the controller’s internal MIDI and send it out again. It can handle MIDI CCs, notes, 14-bit CCs, program and bank change, aftertouch and pitchbend messages, and can act as an Ableton Live clip launcher. It even has a note keyboard mode.
Connect It All
In terms of connectivity, Drop offers two MIDI USB-C ports with automatic device or host detection, four MIDI in and four MIDI out via TRS type A or B sockets, plus two CV in and two CV out jacks for clocks and 0-5V control signals.
You can power the solid metal Neuzeit Instruments Drop through the USB or the included external power supply.
Pricing and Availability
Neuzeit Instruments plans to release Drop in late summer 2025. Price has yet to be announced. Keep an eye out for more information during next week’s Superbooth.
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One response to “Neuzeit Instruments Drop Is a Ridiculously Comprehensive Snapshot-Based MIDI Control Center for Live Performance”
Dear God, I’m going to need a Loopop video to even comprehend how I would be able to use this. in any case, it looks like it’d be a beast.