This is what drum machines sounded like in 1973 – the Roland TR-55 Drum Machine. Description: The Roland TR-55 was one of the first Roland products – it is a compact rhythm box with excellent analog drum sounds – in fact, the typical Roland analog sound. A great feature is the BALANCE knob, which allow you… Read More Roland TR-55 Drum Machine
A small demonstration about how to program a Roland TR-909 drum machine. via nvanzoeren
Producer J.Force bangs out the beats, with a whoppin’ 256 KB memory, on the EMU SP-1200 Sampler. The E-mu SP-1200 is a classic drum machine and sampler released in August 1987 by E-mu Systems as an update of the SP-12, which was originally created for dance music producers. It became famed for its gritty texture… Read More The EMU SP-1200 Sampler
The Beat Kangz overview of their new beat box/workstation, the Beat Thang. This may be the best presentation out of the 2009 NAMM Show. Best quote: “SD cards. What? How many of them? What? I think there’s two of them. What? 16. What? Gigabytes per card.” Let me know what you think of the Beat… Read More The Beat Kangz Beat Thang
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqaEPo2xN14 An introduction to the Beat Kangz Beat Thang: Yeah it’s real…. It’s gonna make Real hits too….. Here it is for tha world to see…… The 100% original Beat Thang. Note: It appears that this video has been yanked for its craptacularness. See comments below. Note 2: It looks like they reposted it! I… Read More Beat Kangz Beat Thang Demo
This is an overview of the synthgasm that is the Big City Music booth at NAMM. You can see shots of the new Metasonix eurorack modules and the new KV-100 Assblaster. You can also see the new Signal Arts Tetra Maps sequencer, the new Sherman Rodec Restyler, all of the Jomox Products, a giant Analogue… Read More NAMM 2009: Big City Music Booth Synthgasm
Who would have thought that twenty-some years later the Roland TR-707 would be back at the NAMM show? The Diabolical Devices circuit mangled TR-707 has a pitch control for every sound, various distortion and bit-squashing bends and a patch bay. The 707’s patch bay can interact with other things like the Diabolical Devices circuit bent… Read More NAMM 2009: Diabolical Devices TR-707
This is the first in a series of 17 videos that explain Maschine, the upcoming computer-based groove production studio from Native Instruments. To see the other videos that cover all areas of MASCHINE in detail, visit the NI site.
2009 NAMM Show: Native Instruments today announced Maschine, their next-generation music production workstation – a sort of Akai MPC/computer hybrid. Maschine combines an advanced software sequencer and sampler with an integrated MPC-style performance controller. Maschine is designed to provide a tactile and immediate interface to computer-based music production setups. I was skeptical about Maschine going into… Read More Native Instruments Maschine
2009 NAMM Show: Beat Kangz is introducing a new sampling workstation that looks like it could be the sexiest beat box ever – The Beat Thang. The Bourne-o-vision video above is pretty bad, but even with the bad video, the interface looks like it will be pretty spectacular. If Beat Kangz can deliver, this could… Read More Beat Kangz Beat Thang Could Be Sexiest Beat Box Ever
