Classic 1980’s roland latin percussion drum machine
The Roland TR-727 is the “Latin cousin” of the Roland TR-707, featuring sampled bongos, congas, etc.
It has the same basic hardware as the 707, including individual outs, MIDI, DIN, etc. Sound control is limited to volume on each channel.
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Go bananas with Monkey Machine
Monkey Machine is a free online drum machine for creating drum loops and providing rhythmic accompaniment for musicians. Monkey Machine features are:
- Over 20 high quality drum kits provided by Natural Studio and Hydrogen.
- Extremely accurate timing.
- Online drum beat database with over 10 000 downloadable drum beats.
- Export drum beats as MIDI files.
- Tap tempo.
- Variable time signatures.
808 Drum programming
The Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer was one of the first programmable drum machines (“TR” serving as an initialism for Transistor Rhythm). Introduced by the Roland Corporation in early 1980.
Transform your KORG drum box into…
Are you keen on transforming your drum machine into a real Acidmachine well here you go (via artig1967):
just to show you that the Korg KPR-77 Drumbox can be used as Acidmachine too.
This machine came out as Korgs answer to Rolands TR-606. The KPR-77 is full analogue. It’s a nice machine with a very unique sound, can be synced via DIN Sync.
The LEGO rythm machine
Lego Tinguely 2: a mechanical rhythm machine made of Lego. A great idea to use such simple building blocks to generate noise and rhythms. Its sounds could play a role in a musical setting as well, if used in moderation.
the video shows a full “choreography”.
Experimenting with the obsolete LM8972 rhythm generator IC
Experimenting with the awesome and obsolete LM8972 rhythm generator IC. I have two LM8972s and a CD4024 clock divider wired up. I’m using the divider to send a 1/2 speed clock to the second LM8972 and a 1/8 speed pulse is activating different drum sequences. Adding a second rhythm IC and divider adds LOTS of variety to the output
Updates on the Machinendrum
The Machinedrum SPS-1UW+ MKII, where UW is short for User Wave, is a drum machine equipped with numerous drum synthesis methods as well as a sampling engine. But this is not your ordinary beat box, it’s something far better. Both synthetic and sample based sounds can be manipulated to great extents. In a matter of seconds a vocal sample can be transformed in to a kick drum. Change a few parameters and a hand clap is suddenly a hi hat. Your imagination is the only limit.
We have a lot of nice news for the Machinedrum. The new Machinedrum OS 1.62 adds the much asked for feature of letting you rename ROM samples. The Sample bank quick access mode and the possibility to write protect Snapshots and Sample banks are other convenient features this update brings. Because of the new OS functionality the Machinedrum manual and the C6 SysEx tool have been updated as well. Download the new OS, manual and C6 version in the Support and Downloads section.
Today we also introduce Machinedrum Sound Packs. They are great tool kits for almost any genre. No less than seven Sound Packs are now available, consisting of a total of 23 Snapshots linked to 23 dedicated Sample banks. Each Snapshot features 4 patterns demonstrating the content of the Sample bank. The 500 samples are studio recorded, 100% royalty free, and found nowhere else.
All Machinedrum SPS-1UW+ MKII units come with these seven Sound Packs pre-installed. When upgrading a UW MKII with a +Drive they are included as well. Current Machinedrum UW users can download the Sound Packs in the Support and Download section. Note though that they are specially made for UW MKII models as some of the Sample banks exceed the sample memory limit of the UW MKI. If you are curious about how the Sound Packs sound you can listen to them at the Machinedrum SPS-1UW+ MKII Sights and Sounds page.”
Reason 5 is a beast for beats!
Yet another strong tutorial focusing on Reason 5
Reason 5 is a beast for beats! God bless Propellerhead for making us beat making heads and hip hop production heads this virtual Akai MPC station for PC users. Reason 5 and it’s powerful Kong Drum Designer is a heaven sent Beat making tool for Hip Hop Producers as well as R&B, House, Techno, Trance etc… I love The Kong Drum in Reason 5 so much that I decided to produce a track called “RAGING KONG”! I skinned it with pictures of King Kong so my production track will feel the wrath of the beast in it’s transistors. In this beat tutorial, I did not use Kong the way I would have liked because Im still trying to pry away from Redrum and the old Rex, plus, I don’t want to offend KONG, I’ll treat Kong with tender loving care it deserves. The Reason for this propellerhead endevour is to raise awareness, get you involved, train new heads and stimulate old ones, to become a subscriber man, we are about to do some grandious things here and I don’t want you to miss out. You also may be interested in going over to todaysbeats.net to download your free version of Beat Making tutorial Series “Hip Hop In Session Volume 22” for FREE!!! We’ve been getting it in since 2003 and we don’t intend to stop until 99.99% of you guys is super star producers of the GLOBE! Meanwhile, enjoy this Reason 5 – Kong Drum Designer tutorial, subscribe and let’s have some mad fun producing HITS!!!!! FOR THESE CRAZY RAPPERS!!!!!!! Remember, music sooths the savage beats, “KONG!”
Activities of a distant Russian transmitter
Tchaikovsky in the style of UVB-76
From vinyl, backwards, processed through the Machinedrum. Inspired by the recent activities of a distant Russian transmitter.
Overview of the featuresof the MPC Electronics Music Percussion Computer
This is a brief overview of the features and sounds of the MPC Electronics Music Percussion Computer. This is a fully Analog Drum Machine made in Cambrige in England in 1982 by MPC Electronics featuring a four pattern internal sequencer and plenty of interfacing methods for a machine of this age. For whatever reason this machine seemed to fade almost entirely into obscurity, however if you managed to find one in fully working order it would make a fine addition to any electronic studio.
It should be noted that this machine is not 100% working, the internal battery has leaked and damaged the external sync circuits meaning that it will only work as master clock and a few of the pots are broken. Most notably the snare tune and decay pots are gone resulting in the snare being a very short burst click sound where as on a full working unit it would probably sound closer to a 909 snare.
For the cheesy little demo track at the end of this video the instruments used are as follows.
Drums – MPC-1
Latin Percussion – Roland TR-727
Electronic Piano – Roland JX-3P
Bass – Oberheim DPX-1 (with Juno-60 bass patch sample)
Harpsichord – Akai S900 (with Juno-60 patch sample)
Organ – Roland Juno-60
Sequencer – Akai ASQ10
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