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Sunday, July 16, 2023

7/16/23 DEMO: Maestro Rhythm King MKIV (for sale) chops TTMC and Trogotronic

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video upload by Cfpp0

"This Rhythm King is the true King of rhythm machines because it has an internal modulation circuit that gates your external audio to correspond to the pattern of the beat. You have control over the modulation depth and volume. You have control over the beat volume and the balance between drums or cymbals. You can combine more than one pattern to generate new patterns. For this demo I am playing continuous notes on the TTMC 112, which CVS the 158 oscillators, and the 112 gates the Trogotronic m11 and also sends pressure to the drive input. The output goes to a 106 then to a passive Rucci matrix mixer (I was going to make the modulation circuit feedback on itself a bit, which sounds cool BTW) and into the modulation circuit where the Rhythm King slices and dices."



via this auction

"This is a rare Maestro Rhythm King Mark 4. It is VERY different from the more common and more colorful Maestro Rhythm King (we have it too if you want to buy it). The biggest difference is that the MKIV has an external audio input, which gets fed into a gate circuit that follows the rhythmic patterns of the preset pattern you choose on the drum machine. Check the video in our photos and cut to 2:45 to see and hear how it works.

You can blend the drum sound using a fader to go fully hats, to be mostly kick and toms, or anywhere in between. The volume for the external audio has its own volume fader, as does the drum volume, so you can also use it just to modulate audio and not use the drums. There is also a blend fader for the gate on the external audio, so you can dial in how much of an abrupt cut you want."

Saturday, November 11, 2023

11/10/23 (demo) External audio through the modulation circuit of Maestro Rhythm King MK4 (for sale)

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video upload by Cfpp0

"A beat gets added at 3:35 to demo the full sound of the machine, but otherwise this is just the sound of the Hewlett-Packard 241A oscillator (into the Heathkit ID-4101, padded down by a Rucci passive mixer) sent into the modulation circuit on the Maestro Rhythm King MK4. Each available preset is selected so that you can hear how the circuit chops up the external audio in relation. You can also combine two or three presets for more complex rhythms."



via this auction

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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Maestro Rhythm King MRK-2

via this auction
"Vintage 1970s Maestro Rhythm King MRK-2 Analog Drum Machine w/ Original Cover, Footswitch

This auction is for an all-original Rhythm King Mrk-2 analog "beat box" drum machine by Maestro, a division of Gibson. Sly Stone is said by many to have considered this "funk box" a key to his sound! As posted on the internet, he purportedly used it throughout his classic album, 'There's a Riot Goin' On.'

The auction includes the original footswitch and the cover, which is in good shape but has a tear at one of the back corners. This classic gives you an amazing array of rhythm combinations available at your fingertips. From the Bossa Nova and Bolero to Waltzes and Western, you are sure to find your sound on this thing, with individualized percussion like tom toms, blocks, cymbals, and more!"

Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Reverb Drum Machines | The Complete Collection Sample Pack for Free


You can find them here.

"Over 50 volumes of vintage, rare, and landmark drum machines that narrate the history of this modern instrument—from the inception of this invention to relevant contemporary devices—this collection covers any and all electronic rhythm needs and sonic character.

Saturday, November 11, 2023

марк1 Maestro Rhythm King MRK-1 - Drum Machine Replica

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video upload by ДМИТРИЙ Р



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Saturday, June 11, 2016

Maestro Rhythm King MRK-2 Vintage Drum Machine SN M-12356

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via this auction

"Along with the Acetone Rhythm Ace, the Maestro Rhythm King MRK-2 help put the drum machine on the map as an revolutionary instrument, with a great debt to Sly Stone. This drum machine is in incredible shape for its age, with the only odd repair of the handle (as seen in the pics). Functionally, this funk box is cracking and loud, sounds fantastic, and will chug along for years to come. Includes original cover, and the footswitch and power cable are in great repair."

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Maestro Rhythm King MRK-1 VINTAGE Analog Drum Machine

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via this auction - video of this unit at the auction and previously posted here.

"Up for sale is a restored 1960s/1970s Maestro Rhythm King MRK-1 analog drum machine- as used by Sly & The Family Stone. This unit is in very good cosmetic condition (I glued back some of the tolex that was peeling off) and has been fully tested to be in good working order. All rhythm presets work great, and all individual sounds work. You can combine rhythms with this drum machine to make your own funky beats. It includes the original start/stop footswitch (it’s permanently attached internally, but slides out the back along with the attached ¼” TS guitar cable and the U.S. 3 pin power cable."

Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Maestro Rhythm King 2 Jam


Published on Jan 31, 2018 mick frigerio

"Session with Maestro Rhythm King MRK 2, Korg MS 20 and a Gibson Les Paul. Recorded in Sculpture Music Studio"

Sunday, September 09, 2007

Demo of Maestro Rhythm King MRK-2 Drum Machine


YouTube via submodern.
Demonstration of the sounds and preset rhythms of the Maestro Rhythm King MRK-2 drum machine, dubbed "the funk box" by Sly Stone and used on his classic album "There's a Riot Goin' On"."
via Art who also put up a page here with samples.

Monday, September 30, 2013

Maestro Rhythm King MRK-1 vintage drum machine demo video


Published on Sep 15, 2013 thenormanconquest·46 videos

"This is a demo for a vintage Maestro Rhythm King MRK-1 drum machine. This video features direct recording (D.I.) as well as a voice-over by myself. The unit itself doesn't have much extra hiss/noise, but you will also hear my laptop's fan noise in the video that bled into the voice-over mic. There are no problems with this unit, it sounds great and all the preset rhythms work! It does include the attached start/stop footswitch as well as a 1/4" cable to go to a DI box or guitar amp."

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

MAESTRO RHYTHM KING

via this auction
"THIS IS AN AWESOME MAESTRO RHYTHM KING ELECTRONIC DRUMMING MACHINE WITH A COLLAPSIBLE STAND.

ITS RHYTHMS ARE:

LATIN –
Bossa Nova
Samba
Bolero
Rhumba
ChaCha
Mambo
Tango

AMERICAN –
Slow Fox
Slow Rock
Swing
Dixie
Shuffle
GoGo
Swing Waltz
And one I cannot read

TRADITIONAL-
Waltz
March Polka
Western

IT COMES WITH A FOOT PEDDLE AND CORDS TO HOOK INTO ANY AMPLIFIER.

IT ALSO HAS FEATURES FOR DOWN BEAT, VOLUME CONTROL, BALANCE, METRONONE WITH SPEED CONTROL AND ON-OFF-PILOT.

THE BLACK BUTTONS ARE: BASS DRUM, SNARE DRUM, HI-HAT CYMBAL, CYMBAL, TOM TOM, BONGO, BLOCKS AND CLAVE.

IT’S COVERED WITH BLACK VINYL INCLUDING A CARRYING STRAP ON TOP. WITH OR WITHOUT THE STRAP IT’S VERY PORTABLE TO ANY GIG.

IT’S APPROXIMATELY 19-1/2” LONG, 8-1/2” HIGH AND 6-1/2” DEEP. ON THE STAND, IT IS APPROXIMATELY 33” TO THE TOP AND THE FACE IS TIPPED TO FACILITATE EASY READABILITY."

Friday, October 12, 2018

Moby's Drum Machines For Sale

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You can find them on Reverb here.

Don't miss the video here.

Update: some pics and details captured. I made the mistake of trying to capture them all and then realized how many were listed. :) I ended up switching to the more esoteric models. Quite a few have never been featured here on MATRIXSYNTH before. What's a little bit interesting, is only two new labels were needed, one for Domino and one for Side-Kick-Er. All other brands have been featured before. See the labels at the bottom of this post. Side note: Blogger limits the number of characters to 200 for labels, so I wasn't able to capture them all for this post. You can always search for the brand names featured for more. I assume most do this anyway. The labels are more for maintenance and for finding posts that may not feature brand names in descriptions.

Pictured:

Realistic Concertmate Electronic Accompanist-Metronome

"Fully analog rhythmic companion utilizing 5 beat buttons to combine how you wish. Features metronome, speaker and line out, and tempo control.

Serial: 42-2103. Works with no issue."

Thursday, December 17, 2020

VAI 4 : Maestro Rhythm King - Maestro USS - Crumar Multiman S/2 - Elka Solist


Vintage Audio Institute Italia

"Making good use of the Crumar Multiman S/2 string separate outputs: string section are going through the Mu-Tron phaser, brass and bass sections are going through the Maestro Rhythm Kings' modulation effect : an input in the back of the drum machine will chop up the input signal like a rhythmic tremolo.
From there is goes to the Maestro Universal Synthesizer (?) System, possibly the first multi-effect ever put on the market, triggering the envelope filter and adding some phaser there as well...
The Maestro Kings' drums are processed through the Roland RE-301 for crunch and echo.
The Elka Solist 505 monophonic synthesizer is playing the lead.


We make these videos as a showcase for our studio and for curious vintage heads - and for fun.
We don't dilly-dally too much with production and mixing but it can sound pretty good with headphones on."

Sunday, December 13, 2020

VAI 5 - Crumar Multiman S/2 - Maestro Rhythm King - Maestro Universal -Elka Solist 505


Vintage Audio Institute Italia

"Crumar Multiman string machine with separate outputs: strings are going through the Mu-Tron phaser, brass is going through the Maestro Rhythm Kings' modulation effect, an input in the back of the drum machine will chop up the input signal like a rhythmic tremolo.

From there is goes to the Maestro Universal Synthesizer (?) System, possibly the first multi-effect ever put on the market, triggering the envelope filter and possibly adding some phaser there as well...

The Maestro Kings' drums are processed through the Roland RE-301 for crunch and echo. The Elka Solist 505 monophonic synthesizer is playing the lead.

We make these videos as a showcase for our studio and for curious vintage heads - and for fun.
We don't dilly-dally too much with production and mixing but it can sound pretty good with headphones on."

Saturday, August 06, 2011

Klemt Echolette-Maestro Rhythm Master-Astor Tube Radio-Vintage Jam.MOV


YouTube Uploaded by NakagawaGakki on Aug 6, 2011

"Vintage Tube Jam. My decrepit Astor Tube Radio from 1949 being mashed by the modulation gate of the 1971 Maestro Rhythm King Mk4 then fed to the awesomely hungry 60s era Klemt Echolette NG51s Tube Tape delay... Spat straight out at the camera.

Live recording of a similar setup for Noizemaschin #1 19/07/2011:
http://soundcloud.com/i-n0jaq/thermionik-molestah

Video of the same:
http://youtu.be/a3aXp1KesWM [below]

Live recordings of all artists performing at Noizemaschin #1:
http://theartifactory.bandcamp.com/album/noizemaschin-1"

I.n0jaQ

Uploaded by cirtcele on Jul 23, 2011

"Artifactory NoizeMaschin#1 July2011 From the blurb:
I.n0jaQ - I.n0jaQ will be dusting off 1950s tube radios, 60s tape reverbs, 70s preset rhythm boxes, 80s educational machines and 90s found electronics. The unmistakable warm tone of last century's analogue circuitry intensely over-driven to timeless noise brutality levels."

Saturday, March 23, 2013

Maestro Rhythm King MRK-4 Analog Vintage Drum Machine

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via this auction

"This is an analogue drum machine from the mid 1970s. It uses inductor coils or "tuned tanks" to produce its sound in a similar way to the Roland TR-77 and the Korg Mini-Pops. The modulator section is key to this unit and sets it apart from other drum machines of the era. You can connect an instrument to the rear modulator input (say, a synthesizer), and then that input gets triggered by the Rhythm King' beat. Must be heard to believe. YouTube this, and you'll hear that feature. Very cool.

It's a rare piece, especially in this condition. All sounds work, all rhythms work and all sliders are nice and crackle-free. There are 10 sounds and 16 rhythms plus an intro/break feature. The rhythms can be combined as is typical with these older 'diode matrix' rhythm units. The two cymbal sounds have various decay amounts depending on the rhythms chosen ranging from a short maracas type sound to open high-hat. This is a heavy unit in tolex."

Thursday, December 24, 2020

Vintage Tonic


Magnus Lidström

"We have developed a machine-learning algorithm that generates synth sounds from audio samples. To put this algorithm to the test we created Vintage Tonic: a recreation of ten legendary drum machines for Microtonic.

Read more about it here: https://soniccharge.com/forum/topic/1...

Download the patches from: https://soniccharge.com/download"

Some additional info:

"Vintage Tonic is a patch package for Microtonic created from recordings of the following classic drum machines:

Maestro Rhythm King (1960)
Keio / Korg Minipops 7 (1966)
Roland CR-78 CompuRhythm (1978)
Korg KR-55 (1979)
Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer (1980)
Oberheim DMX (1981)
Linn Drum (1982)
Roland TR-909 Rhythm Composer (1984)
Roland TR-707 Rhythm Composer (1984)
Roland TR-505 Rhythm Composer (1986)

Notice that the collection includes both analog and digital drum machines. Naturally, the digital drum machines are much harder to reproduce using Microtonic's synthesizer engine, but even imperfect results are fun, and I find the sounds quite useful.

The older drum machines were mainly preset pattern players. I have painstakingly tried to reproduce not only their sounds but also all of their original patterns."

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Switched On Demos: Rhythm King and Moog Rogue (Modified)


YouTube Published on Aug 20, 2012 by Switched On

"We thought we would look into the interactivity of the Maestro Rhythm King drum machine and the classic Moog Rogue that we have modified.

These mods are readily available to your Moog Rogue or its Realistic branded equivelant the MG-1.

For more information and contact please visit:
http://www.switchedonaustin.com/"

Sunday, September 19, 2021

V.A.I. 62 Welson Stereo Symphony / Maestro USS / Maestro Rhythmking 4 / Ekosynth


video upload by Vintage Audio Institute Italia

This appears to be the first post to feature the Meastro Rhythm King 4.

"The mighty Welson Stereo Symphony is a rare Italian string machine with modulation stereo capabilities that are quite unique.

The Maestro USS is the first multi- effect for guitars: phaser, envelope follower, octave follower, Sample and hold etc.

The Meastro Rhythm King 4 is a drum machine with a rhythmic, tremolo modulation - chopping up whatever sound source you give the input in the back."

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

1969 Maestro Model MRK-2 'Rhythm King' Rhythm Machine


via this auction

"This is a 1969 Maestro Model MRK-2 'Rhythm King' Rhythm Machine. Made in USA by Gibson Inc, Lincolnwood, Ill. USA. Serial #15314.

Features and Problems: 18 Pre-programmed 'Rhythms'. (7) Latin, (8) American and (3) Traditional. Controls for: 'Volume', 'Balance' and 'Speed/Metronome'. Lighted On/Off rocker switch. Eight additional 'momentary' black switches for: 'Bass Drum', 'Snare Drum', 'Hi-Hat Cymbal', 'Cymbal', 'Tom Tom', 'Bongo', 'Blocks' and 'Clave'. This unit was tested by our electronics tech and he said it all worked except for the 'Bongos', 'Blocks' and 'Clave' switches which are non-functional and do not work. All control switches were cleaned. All other switches and rhythms/controls work fine. Exterior wood case covering has much wear (see photo). The AC cord, 1/4" cable and Footswitch all work and are stored in the compartment on the back."

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