8081 - Accent
An accent feature is missing from the SoundForce 808 Snare. Adding one is a matter of replacing a 12V rail voltage with the accent voltage. And that’s where a rabbit hole entrance lies in wait. So Common The TR-808 has one global accent track where you program steps affecting all active voices with an increased trigger level. There is only one global level setting for the amount of accent. This accent is sent globaly on the COMMON TRIG line to all the instruments. It’s one of those deceptive tricks of the 808 design which in this case makes it's timing special. The common trig signal is always running and consists of a 1ms pulse on every step. The instrument ("data") pulse, which is sent for each selected step is slightly wider so when they are combined there's no chance of them missing each other. When AND'd together the result is perfectly in time with every instrument in lock step. The common trig signal is passed through the global accent control, alter