A few Sequential Circuits Drumtraks patterns

Published on Dec 23, 2015 SynthMania

"A few Sequential Circuits Drumtraks patterns - sorry for the change in light when I move my arm, I'm not sure what happened, as I had the camera exposure locked in manual mode."

Roland SH 101, Alesis Andromeda and Sequential Circuits Drumtraks 80s Style Song

Published on Oct 16, 2012 MrSynthmania·16 videos

"Short Song in 80s Style only made with Roland SH 101 for Bassline, Alesis Andromeda for Melodys and Sequential Circuits Drumtraks for Drums.
No EQ used in the Mix."

SEQUENTIAL CIRCUITS DRUMTRAKS Vintage Drum Machine 1984 | HD DEMO

Published on May 21, 2013 AnalogAudio1·105 videos

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Demo of the drum machine Sequential Circuits Drumtraks from 1984.

It is a great American drum machine. It is very flexible - for every beat and every sound in a pattern you can set volume and pitch to your needs, similar to the E-mu SP-12. It has a groovy sequencer! One of my favourite drum machines.

It is a studio machine with single outputs for drumsounds, MIDI, Clock IN/OUT and more..."

Sequential Circuits Drumtraks with Original Box & Data Cassette

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"Sequential Circuits Drumtraks / Serial Number 1151 with the following accessories:

One (1) original box.
One (1) original owners manual.
One (1) original data cassette."

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Eventide Harmonizer H949 Demo with Sequential Circuits drumtraks

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"Eventide H949 Harmonizer demo of functions/capabilites with a Sequential Circuits Drumtraks. Recorded straight into a UA Volt interface.

Restored at Synth Tailor Electronics. Visit our website for sales, repairs and sending in your vintage synthesizers, drum machines, outboard gear, vintage effects and tape machines to get restored.
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LM-1 (Linndrum) Chips inside a Sequential Circuits Drumtraks & Tears for Fears Digi Rock Set

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"These are the original LM-1 Binary Files I programmed inside a Sequential Circuits Drumtraks. if you like to purchase Eproms for your machines contact me" going.up.up.up.up@gmail.com

Tears for Fears Emu Drumulator Digi Rock set for a Linn Drum LM2

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"I designed these sounds for a Linn drum using the original binary files from the Emu Emulator Digi rock set. famously used by Tears for fears. I can burn these for your linn drum too."

And one more:

Oberhiem Prommer Linn Drum Sounds

Sequential Circuits Drumtraks Drum machine

Published on Feb 19, 2015 Bostich Nortec

Sequential Circuits Drumtraks Drum-Machine & ARP 2600.

SEQUENTIAL CIRCUITS DRUMTRAKS

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"Vintage Sequential Circuits DrumTraks 80s drum machine."

Sequential Circuits DrumTraks Sound Demo (no talking)

Published on Aug 23, 2017 Bonedo

"Sequential Circuits Drumtraks Drum Machine."

Sequential Circuits Drumtraks Drum Machine

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"Sequential Circuits Drumtraks 8 bit drum machine"

Sequential Circuits Drumtraks

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"Vintage Sequential Circuits Drumtraks drum machine in immaculate working condition. Recently serviced to ensure full functionality. Signature 80's sound!"

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Sequential Circuits DrumTraks with Original Box & Extras

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"Vintage 80's Sequential Circuits DrumTraks 400 PC 400-2 Drum Machine
The unit has been tested with no problems. The unit is in excellent, well-taken care of condition..

Includes original box, manual & 23 additional sound chips."

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Rolling Chains.mov

YouTube via davidryle | July 07, 2010

"Goofing around with the modular synth and an old Sequential Circuits Drumtraks.

The piece is a bit noisy at some points where the cheap-o compressor stomp box and the drum machine's flakey pot make a debut. I liked the overall feel of this one and will incorporate it into a final piece somewhere. The bass line is appealing to me where it diverts off on a pseudo key change. This is leading me to some rare sounding melodic lines already.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy it.

Synths used are the Synthesizers.com 88 space portable modular and the Sequential Circuits Drumtraks."

Sequential Circuits Drumtraks

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"Sequential Circuits Drumtraks drum machine from 1984. It was the first MIDI drum machine; and also features clock in and out and seven individual outs for mixing."

SN 2269

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Living with schizophrenia - DJ Lace 2013

"A downtempo track made with A Roland Tr-808, Roland JX3P, Roland JP8080, Roland JP8000, Sequential Circuits Drumtraks, Sequential Circuits Multitrak, Kawai SX210, Nord lead 2."


via Lace Dj on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge. More pics on Flickr here.

"Gear setup for the track 'living with schizophrenia'

The song was inspired by a video depicting what it is like to be schizophrenic. The telephone sample and female voice in the middle are all from the video.

The track represents a person waking up, disoriented but functioning, unable to really grasp what’s going on and hearing all sorts of voice like noises. The phone rings but when answered, there is an incomprehensible voice making instrument like noises coming from the handset. Things get progressively darker and fuller sounding as the middle arrives and everything seems to grind to a halt, While the Xoxbox keeps playing, like reality still going on in the background of someone’s life. A voice then explains this is all a simulation, and to get ready because now it’s about to really get going, then the effect comes back, this time rising to an explosive peak followed by an intense release giving way to lighter yet still tenseful self realisation that everything is going to be ok, this time....

The track started out as a jam with the 808 and the analog solutions reverb. I had the doepfer LFO modulation the reverb and recorded a few passes noodling with it. The big wind down and wind up effect in the middle of the track (including the high pitch whine) is achieved solely with the reverb setting being cranked to the max by the slow sweep of the LFO. In the last part of the song, it the effect of the 808 that is heard overtop the Drumtraks.

That doepfer LFO a-145 is a good deal, this one was $80 used. It can go super slow and you can retrigger it. Very handy as a modulation source for any synth or effect gear in you may own that has some type of analog control input.

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Alesis Ion + Sequential Circuits Drumtraks | SCI Drumtrax Live Jam | Alesis Ion Demo

YouTube Uploaded by VisceralVoids on Jul 5, 2011

"Raw wave file grabbed from 2010 jam remixed w/ Cool Edit Pro. MIDI synced arpeggiator to Sequential Circuits Drumtraks. Carvin FX2 as a reverb unit for the Alesis ION virtual analog synthesizer. Pictures from the 'net."

Roland SVC 350 Vocoder | Where You Lie

Published on Apr 1, 2020 Alex Ball

See the Behind The Mix walkthrough below.

"In 1979 Roland released one of the most famous vocoders of all time, the VP-330, but some may not realise that it had a lesser known sibling; the SVC-350.

The 350 is essentially the same vocoder found in the 330, but in rackmount format and without the synth parts. That said, it does have some unique features that don’t appear on the 330.

The 350 went on being made quite late into the 80s and the serial of this particular unit dates to July 1985 which ties in with Roland’s move towards rack mount and module-based gear at that time.

Here’s a 1980 article on “The Roland Rack”: http://retrosynthads.blogspot.com/201...

SVC-350 features: Starting on the left there’s a microphone input section (xlr and jack) which is the modulator and then an instrument or guitar input section that acts as the carrier. The Guitar input also has a “harmonics” knob to balance the incoming sound.

Your modulator and carrier then run through the 11-band vocoder that has 11 corresponding sliders that can boost or cut that particular band to sculpt the sound. These are labelled “voice character control”.

There’s then a balance knob to blend between the direct modulator signal and vocoder as well as quite comprehensive outputs and remote (footswitch) controls for different live or studio applications.

In also has the classic Roland stereo ensemble.

My original intention was to do a talkthrough of its features and also compare it to my Seekers Voice Spectra vocoder which I absolutely love. I started trying out some test sounds for that video and was laying them down and multi-tracking for comparisons and basically I wound up making a whole track so, I decided to follow where that was going and abandon the original talkthrough idea.

There is already a talkthrough video here anyway: https://youtu.be/cOO6xTXTeiA

At the very start of the demo you actually hear a Juno and Seekers Voice Spectra (a bit weird I know, but it was intended as a comparison and this video unfolded in an ad-hoc manner). From 28 seconds we overdub with the SVC-350 and you can hear its mellower sound which compliments the more crystal-like Spectra.

From about 41 seconds I ran a Roland System 100m through the 350 with its own noise generator as modulator and an oscillator as a carrier which gave a slightly unusual texture to the ostinato I’m playing (controlled by the SH-101).

From around 55 seconds I tried a lower part singing an alternative melody and used a sawtooth from the Sequential Pro~One. I also ran a Sequential Drumtraks through the 350 as the modulator with a guitar as the carrier. The cymbals with the guitar created some particularly interesting sounds I thought (heard on the downbeat of every other bar).

As a contrast, in the middle things go acoustic in terms of voices and guitars. I quite like that moment as it’s as though we come out of electronics and into more natural sounds.

Gear / Sounds used:

Roland SVC-350 Vocoder (1979)
Seekers Voice Spectra Vocoder (1999)
Roland System 100m (1979)
Roland SH-101 (1982)
Roland Juno-6 (1982)
Sequential Circuits Pro~One (1981)
ARP Odyssey Mark II 2813 (circa 1976)
Musicaid Simmons SDS-3 (1978)
Sequential Circuits Drumtraks (1984)
Roland TR-606 Hi-Hats (1981)
Alvarez Baritone Acoustic
Squier Jagmaster Vista (1997)
AKG C414S
Stagg SDM-50
G-Force Software MTron Pro (Flutes)
G-Force Software VSM (Solina)
Spitfire Audio Joby Burgess Percussion (Orchestral Snare / Rain Sheet)
Fairlight CMI III Drum samples (end solo only)


Mixed by Jakob at Sonic Peak Studio.

In fact Jakob has done a walkthrough of the mix of this track:"

Behind The Mix : "Where You Lie" by Alex Ball

Published on Apr 1, 2020 Sonic Peak Studio

"In this video I'll take the viewer through most of the work that went into creating this mix and master. It'll also form the basis for future videos in the series.

1:15 Playthrough with soloing and un-grouping
5:30 Basic EQ details
9:58 : Parallel Compression - more on that later
11:56 : Compression/Limiting/Transient Designing/Clipping
17:33 : Vokal Processing
18:34 : De-essing
18:43 : Dynamic EQ
19:32 : EQ
19:39 : Limiting
20:01 : Bus Compression/Limiting vs "Normal" Compression/Limiting
20:54 : Acoustic Guitars, bussing and processing
21:39 : Send/Returns
21:55 : A Word of Warning....
22:35 : Parallel Compressor
22:45 : Chorus
24:34 : Tal Chorus demo using acoustic guitars
25:10 : Waves Doubler
26:50 : Short Reverb
31:24 : Long Reverb
32:48 : Automation of Reverbs
36:27 : Delay
38:16 : Mastering"

Sequential Circuits Vintage SCI DRUMTRAKS Drum Machine with Mods

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Pics of the inside below.

"1984 Sequential Circuits Drumtraks, drum machine, updated by Wine Country Sequential. This unit has lived in a climate controlled studio for nearly 30 years, I opened up the chassis so you can see exactly what sound chips are in there. You can see in the pictures, three added switches on the right side of the unit, these three added switches add extra sounds, also a bigger heat sink, was installed and watch out now, because this guy actually does get a lil hot. This unit is 100% functional and is in good shape with just a couple of minor dings and scuffs, but look great for being 30 years old..."

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Sequential Circuits Six-Trak & Drumtraks User Manuals & Warranty Cards

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"Sequential Circuits Six-Trak; has unfilled warranty card included. A few of the pages in the back of blank patch or preset sheets and loose. There is some lose paper on the spine, I haven't repaired this, but this will be packed very carefully so it doesn't get worse.
Sequential Circuits Drum-Traks - Full colour four panel, ie one A3 sheet folded"

Note this is supporting member, Loscha's listing.

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Sequential Circuits Six-Trak

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inside a Sequential Circuits Six-Trak

"The Six-Trak was released by Sequential Circuits around 1984 (Model 610).
It is a 6-voice, Polyphonic, Multitimbral, Programmable Synthesizer that has MIDI, a built in Sequencer, an Arpeggiator, and a 4-Octave (C-C) keyboard.

The Six-Trak was one of the first multitimbral MIDI instruments designed to be used with a computer with software that was available for the Commodore 64. The software allowed programming of the six voices and the sequencing.
Along with the DrumTraks drum machine, SCI claimed that with the software and this synth that it was a complete MIDI system.

Each voice can be programmed to any of the 100 internal patches and played as a separate monphonic synth. It can be played either by the external keyboard controller or an external sequencer as well.
The Curtis CEM) 3394 chips were used for each voice which contains one VCO, VCF, VCA, and LFO for each. The VCO has fine and course tuning, glide (portamento) as well as saw, triangle, and pulse (with pulse width modulation) waveforms.
Each Oscillator can be mixed with a noise generator as well and the filter section features controls for Cut-Off Frequency and Resonance.

You can also set the key follow modulation to full, off, or half.

The filter is also self-resonating and can be modulated by each oscillator.

Each voice contains an ADSR Envelope for each the VCO, VCF, and VCA.

The LFO can be routed to the VCO, VCA, and PWM and consist of such waveforms as square and triangle.

There is a single data entry knob used for programming and all the programming is done through menus. However, you can select the knob to control such things as frequency cut off and effect the filter as you play.

You can choose between Polyphonic (with portamento), Unison, and Stack modes (which allows each voice to be set to a different patch and played as one complex mono sound. Mono and Stack modes are selectible between single and multi-triggering modes as well.

The Arpeggiator can be selected as Up, Down, or Assignable (which plays the notes in the order that they were played).

The keyboard can also be split into three areas.

The Pitch-Wheel is fixed at a range of a Mjor 3rd up and a Minor 3rd down.

The Modulation-Wheel controls the LFO amount.

All of the sequences and patches can be backed up via MIDI

The Six-Trak features an 800 note sequencer and 100 patch locations.

The rear of the synth consists of MIDI IN and OUT, a stereo audio jack which doubles as a headphone jack, a footswitch for sustain, and an accessible fuse f it were to ever blow.

The overall size of the Six-Trak is 28"x12"x4 1/2" and weighs approximately 18 pounds."

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