Trix

Hügelton Instruments is an independent electronic instrument company and design lab founded by Leo Kuroshita in Kobe, Japan. We design Eurorack modules, audio plugins, and experimental music tools inspired by vintage electronics and modern technology.

Trix is a software recreation of a Japanese rhythm machine from 1973, developed through hands-on analysis of an original unit and its analog circuitry.

Trix uses no samples. Every sound is synthesized in real time using models based on the original electronic circuits, from resonant drum voices to metallic percussion and noise-based sounds.

Features

• Circuit models based on an original 1973 unit
• 100% synthesized, no samples
• Reconstructed built-in rhythm patterns
• Step sequencer / pattern editor
• Individual voice control
• Extended Noise / Metal controls
• Master Tone / OverDrive
• Internal / Host / MIDI Clock
• macOS: AUv2, VST3 and Standalone
• Windows: VST3

Hardware Archaeology

Trix started with an original 1973 rhythm machine on the workbench.

Its sound-generating circuits were traced, measured, and analyzed to understand how the instrument actually produces its characteristic percussion. Rather than capturing the final output as recordings, those electronic behaviors were reconstructed as real-time DSP models.

Beyond the Original

The original machine offered very little control over its individual sounds. Tuning, decay, and character were largely determined by fixed components inside the hardware.

Trix turns those internal relationships into playable parameters. Tune the drums, change their decay, reshape the metallic percussion, alter the noise character, drive the output, and rebalance every instrument individually.

Trix also adds a Low Conga derived as an extension of the original percussion architecture. Beyond the original fixed preset rhythms, a step sequencer and pattern editor let you create, edit, and save your own patterns using the same circuit-modeled sounds.

System Requirements

• macOS: AUv2 / VST3 / Standalone, Universal arm64 + x86_64
• Windows: VST3, x64

Resources

• Get Trix on itch.io

info@hugelton.com