ELKA DRUMMER ONE Analog Rhythm Box 1969 | HD DEMO | SAMPLE PACK

Published on Nov 26, 2015 AnalogAudio1

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The DRUMMER ONE is a very rare, professional analog rhythm box from Elka, Italy. High quality hardware. All rhythms are mixable. All drum sounds have volume knobs to set the volume individually. It was primarily used by krautrock artists as Cluster (Zuckerzeit) and Kraftwerk.

I played the Drummer One with a small amout of ambience from a Lexicon MPX-500 and delay from a Korg SDD-3000. At the end of the video you hear SDD-3000 echo madness ;-)

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"ELKA DRUMMER ONE" SAMPLE PACK

Do you like the Elka Drummer One sounds? You can purchase it as SAMPLE PACK for 6,99 Euros. All drum sounds of the machine are included (16 bit / 44,1 kHz wav samples).

Recording was made in high quality using RME studio equipment. All original pure sound directly from the machine's output, without any treatments.

After payment through PayPal you will get the sample pack via email.

If you want to buy the sample pack, send a message to

ceramic-man@gmx.de

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LSD Soundsystem by Steven R Sellick Play Featuring the Elka Drummer One

via Steven R Sellick on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

You'll find previous posts on the Elka Drummer One here.

Drummer One

"Elka Drummer One and Yamaha YC-30 + Minifooger Drive."

via Steven R Sellick on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

Elka Drummer One SUPER ULTRA RARE VINTAGE Analog Drum Machine

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Video at the auction and previously posted here.

"This unit has 16 preset rhythms and 9 individual drum sounds that all have volume knobs on the front of the unit.

Just as an FYI, when I was testing the circuits, I also casually checked out the "Solo Rhythmer" plug on the rear of the unit. My best guess, considering the vintage of this unit, is that it was used to interface with an Elka organ and provide some sort of gating/arpeggio CV-type functions to the organ. When I made connections to different points with a volt meter, I found the following functions which could be accessed if you were willing to hack into the unit and put 1/8" ins and outs instead of the very odd connector that it uses-

· trigger outputs (kick for sure, perhaps snare)

· different drum patterns (making one connection for example would trigger the snare to play more often within a given pattern- seemed like a "fill" function of some sort)

· clock outputs (one of them was 1 ppqn if I remember correctly)

· something that shorted the audio, which I would guess might be individual outs for the drum machine

· there could have been trigger inputs, but I wasn't very thorough with my testing of this function as it's not a main feature of this unit

DISCLAIMER- I make no claims that the 5 previous features will work for you, as they might not work exactly as described (after all, I don't have the service manual to tell me what they do, so I'm just poking around and guessing)

The flaws for this unit-

1. somebody painted it black at some point, but not very well. it's a very glossy black as you can see in the pictures
2. the top lamp is not working (but the bottom light is working)
3. the "short cymbal" sound is not working (although I can hear it very faintly in the ouptut)
4. the faceplate is in good, but not perfect condition- see pictures for details

The original unit had a wood finish, but this specific unit has been painted a glossy black at some point. The paint job wasn’t done very well (please see the pictures that show the quality of the paint job), but it does look pretty nice from a distance. It's nothing that a good paint-stripping and varnishing job couldn't take care of to let the original, beautiful wood shine through.

This drum machine was used on the Kraftwerk records ”Kling Klang” and “Tanz Musik”, as well as by many German Kosmische/Krautrock bands such as- Cluster, Roedelius, Tangerine Dream, and Popul Vuh."

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Elka Drummer One SUPER RARE VINTAGE drum machine demo video

Published on Sep 15, 2013 thenormanconquest·46 videos

"This is a demo video for an extremely rare Elka Drummer One drum machine from Italy. This video features direct recording (D.I.) as well as a voice-over by myself. The unit itself does have some extra hiss/noise (due to the components/vintage of this unit), but you will also hear my laptop's fan noise in the video that got into my voice-over mic. The only two electronic problems with this unit are that the top light and the short cymbal do not work. Someone did install a universal power supply at some point, so this could be used anywhere with the right adapter plug. Someone also painted it a very glossy black (but not very well), so that might take a bit of work to get it back to original condition (or at least to the original wood color).

This drum machine was used by a bunch of Krautrock/other German experimental bands (Kraftwerk, Popul Vuh, Tangerine Dream, Cluster, etc.)."

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