Prismal Labs

TR-808 kick: the bridged-T resonator and retrigger history — Why the bass drum is more than a falling sine, and how research separates the resonator model from authored kick controls.
TR-808 snare: coupled body, wire and Tone network — Following interactions between the resonant body, noise gate, loaded Tone mixer and output feedback.
TR-808 clap: comparator timing and the C140 discrepancy — Tracing the clap envelope while retaining a conflict between the schematic value and service-description timing.
TR-808 hats and cymbal: metallic sources and loaded filters — Investigating the six continuously running rectangular sources and the boundary between circuit-derived tone and authored damping.
TR-808 cowbell: oscillators, loaded envelopes and nonlinear gates — A physically informed cowbell reconstruction with an explicitly qualified low-voltage gate model.