This video, via sound designer Alba Ecstasy, demonstrates the sound of the Korg Keio Mini Pops 7 drum machine – a late 60’s analog design.
The Mini Pops 7 is best known as the drum sound of Jean Michel Jarre’s Oxygene.
“It’s sounds amazing, deep, the sweet flavor of vintage gear,” he notes. “I almost feel that I’m in Jarre’s studio, back in the 70s!”
The audio is the raw sound of the Mini Pops 7, no compression or effects added.
If you happen to have a Mini Pops 7 or other vintage analog drum machine, Tubbutec has a Universal MIDI Interface, the uniPulse, that can be used to add MIDI control. We talked to them at SuperBooth and got a quick demo:
so what is the purpose of the circuit on top
Midi control
FunkBox by Synthetic Bits ($4.99) on my iPad. 25+ vintage drum box emulations.
Korg Keio Mini Pops 7 Drum Machine is very cool but it’s a one-trick pony. I too am a fan of the Synthetic Bits Funkbox which does a great job at emulating 60’s drumbox sounds and does much more. Love the sound of the Korg box though very doubtful I would buy one..
It seems to have a far better sound than the Roland equivalent, the TR-77.
Roland, here is your chance…. a TR-8 update with the TR-77 and Minipops sounds.
I like using FunkBox and DM-1. MiniPops (for some reason) is one of my go-to sounds. Not sure why I like those sounds so much, but I do. I think it is because they are so surreally clean. It’s all rhythm and the sounds just don’t have much baggage (for me).
I love funkbox but i dont have the minipops box… What am i missing?
Brilliant. Look at the controls, I love those slider caps. The sounds are classic madness. You can almost hear the electrons moving around.
I don’t have the mini pop seven on my funk box app
Bass drum :
EMU SP12; Linndrum; Oberheim DMX; Roland TR808 /909; Akai MPC60 = phat.
Minipops7 = deeeep like heartbeat deep.
I’m amazed I never knew the Oxygene beats were straight out presets on a cheesy home organ sort of preset rhythm box. OK, so he pressed two buttons at once to create a hybrid pattern, it’s neat the box can do that. It reminds me of how on Revolutions there’s a track that is just pressing down one note on a D-50 sampled wave-rhythm patch and holding it. Seems whatever artist first plays easily identified preset patches gets known for it and is assumed to be the creator of the patch. And no one else can use that patch again without being considered derivative. Kinda weird.
So you think drums are all Oxygène is about ? And those composers who all use the same piano preset, what a pity…
Do you like this drum machine?
Download the virtual emulation with this exactly sound:
http://www.elektrostudio.ovh.org/index.php?go=rhythm
There’s an excellent, lovingly-rendered VST plugin for DAW users at https://www.fullbucket.de/music/bucketpops.html