Linn LM1 80s beats on iPad part 1: Prince, Sharon Redd, Human League, Michael Jackson and others

video upload by harlemnightsmusic

"Tracklist:

* Prince - Kiss
* Morris Day - Dance Electric
* Vanity 6 - Nasty Girl
* Colonel Abrams - Not Gonna Let
* Sharon Redd - Love How You Feel
* Human League - Don't You Want Me
* Sharon Redd - Beat The Street
* Prince - 1999
* Flash & the Pan - Midnight Man
* Michael Jackson - Thriller
* Michael Jackson - Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
* Gary's gang - Runaway
* Morris Day - Jungle Love
* Vanity 6 - Sex Shooter
* Gary Low - You Are A Danger
* Human League - Do Or Die
* Prince - 777 9311
* Prince - When Doves Cry
* Prince - I Would Die 4U
* Human League - Open Your Heart

In 2009 I recreated many favorite 80s drumbeats on the then new Korg Electribe samplers, sampling the Linndrum, Oberheim DMX, Roland CR78, TR808 and more. I copied the patterns by ear and also tried to catch the vibe of each original track as much as possible, using only the internal EQ and sampler fx. Later I expanded the series to synthesizer medleys and full tracks. It led me to a lot of contacts, collaborations and releases.

Now I wanted to reboot this in portable music production. Jim Audo's GR16 iPad app felt very much like the Electribe SX in use. So I started transferring my old beats to the newer medium, improved and expanded them to do another series of classic drumbeats, to inspire new music.

The Novation Launchpad Pro Mk3 integrates well with it and gives more tactile feel to it, as with the Electribes. It's however not necessary to use it.

The result is a great sounding retro beat machine that now even fits on an iPhone.

And yes, that's an LM2 at the back, not LM1.

Enjoy
HN"

Vinyl Drum Machine Collection

video upload by GoldbabySamples

"Vinyl Drum Machine Collection. Available now: https://www.goldbaby.co.nz/vdmc.html 16 drum machines cut to vinyl and played back on multiple record players."

"The inherent charm of vinyl has consistently enriched my sampling technique. Vinyl adds warmth, depth, and character to audio.

I meticulously recorded 16 drum machines for this pack - sending them to renowned record-cutting studios, DubStudios, and Analog Cuts. Back in the Goldbaby studio, the resulting Acetates and Dub Plates were played back on an audiophile deck (Project), vintage decks (Technics and Pye), and even a portable deck (Vestax). Tastefully recorded through high-end studio hardware and carefully edited into one-hit drum samples, these are some seriously good drums with loads of character and made with love!

This pack also includes a selection of drum samples recorded on a lo-fi Japanese plastic toy vinyl recorder (Gakken). Some very useful vinyl synth oscillators (Triangle, Saw and Square). Lastly, a folder full of vinyl noise and vinyl click samples.

Drum Machines: Syntakt, Uno Drum, TR808, TR909, TR606, TR505, TR626, LM-1, Linn Drum, Drumulator, SP12, MicroTonic, MBase01, Ritmo 12, DR110, CR78.

This is an upgrade of my old Vinyl Drum Machines pack. Most of the drums have been re-tuned and re-mastered. I also added more drum machines and more samples! **Those who own the old Vinyl Drum Machine pack are entitled to a 60% discount. Contact me with your proof of purchase via the contact page to get the discount."

Electro track live mixed in analog studio

video upload by Peter Maas

"Letting the analog synthesizers blast in dopplereffekt/aux88 style. TR808+TR606 beats, Korg MonoPoly bass, Minimoog, PS3100 pads, TTSH ringmodulator sounds and much more fancy stuff. Video annotated with more explanations."

MXR Pitch Transposer M-129 + MXR Digital Delay M-113 + Roland TR808 Demo

video upload by Synth Tailor Electronics

"Here's a demo of two units I restored at my shop Synth Tailor Electronics. MXR M-113 Digital Delay / MXR Pitch Transposer M-129 !

I'm playing a Din Sync TR808 through both units, to demo how the effects sound while running a drum machine through them!"

Seuential Circuits TOM with Tauntek TOM16 extansion

video upload by ohm_studi_ohm

"The Sequential TOM was already a great drum machine at the time it was released, with a lot of nice features, especially regarding MIDI implementation. You could play, record, synchronise the machine over MIDI and adjust sample direction, volume, pitch and pan of every sample either on the device or over MIDI, in real time and for every step ! That gives you lots of possible variations. Not many drum machines could could achive that at the time.

And now thanx to another amazing engineering by Tauntek you can have 16 kits in the instrument at all time, without the need to switch cartridges. And even more important: you can swap the internal kit samples as well as the cartridge ones, enabling for any combination of 2 kits you wish. This is impossible with cartridges or other upgrade available, and only possible thanx to Tauntek firmware. And that makes a huge difference. Note that you can only have 15 sounds at hand not 16. The 8th pad from the cartridge layer is always a trigger out message and won't trigger a sound, even if the loade kit has 8 sounds.

You can even make your own kits if you have access to an Eprom programmer.
Check Tauntek dedicated page for more info (http://www.tauntek.com/TOM16cart.htm)
This unit also had its RAM maxed out, expanding the internal 8k to 32k and thus bringing the stock 2,300 notes capacity to a whopping 10,400. And believe me you run very quickly out of memory if you make some complex patterns with different variations.

So here is the demo, i didn't make patterns demos for each of the 16 kits but you'll get the idea, and I didn't go too deep into external MIDI playing/programming but bare in mind you can record instrument tuning pitch, volume, pan and sample direction (reverse) for every instrument on every step.

Here is the timeline:
00:00 stock kit patterns
02:28 TR808 kit patterns
03:56 TR909 kit patterns
05:08 TR606 kit patterns
06:25 CR78 kit patterns
07:17 sound preview of all the kits included in the box
11:18 quick realtime patterns programming using external pads

list of the kits included in the TOM16:
SCI Internal
SCI Basic Percussion
SCI Contemporary
SCI Latin Percussion
SCI Special Effects
Drumware Rock Drums
Drumware Techno Drums
Drumware Orchestral
Drumware Percussion 3
Drumware Hippefex
Drumware Analog Drums
Roland TR808
Roland TR909
Roland CR78A
Roland CR78B
Roland TR606"

Depeche Mode cover - live composing the TR808

video upload by Analogue Solutions

"Son's Uni project - all synths are vintage, already recorded using MC4 and live playing. Roland 100m (x4), Jupiter 8 and others. Last stage is to record in the TR808. This is synced using a Pro Solo with Sync24. Battles with old gear as usual - the Fill button on the TR808 is temperamental and sometimes doesn't trigger the fills."

Vintage Drum Machine Demos & Book - RHYTHM MACHINES The Rise and Fall of the Presets

video upload by Momtnz

"RHYTHM MACHINES - The Rise And Fall Of the Presets - by Alex Graham

Rhythm machines – the precursor to what we in the modern age refer to as a drum machine. This book documents the emergence of the preset pattern electronic rhythm instruments that (for a time) were used as a viable alternative to the drummer. Contained within are the Rhythmates, Rhythm Aces, Rhythm Boxes, Rhythmers, Rhythm Kings, Rhythm Masters, Donca Matics, Mini Pops and many more. Nearly three hundred rhythm instruments are documented here, with over two hundred pictures and information provided on their country of origin, instrument sounds, patterns and features. The book is a ‘must have’ for collectors, vintage instrument enthusiasts and recording artists.

For information on purchasing this unique book, follow the links here:

https://www.amazon.com/Rhythm-Machine...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rhythm-Machi..."
video uploads by Momtnz

This is one massive playlist of 68 videos. You can use the player controls to skip around.
The Godwin DM32 gets my vote for best looking rhythm machine.

CLICK FOR MORE »

Dawless Acid Workout with TR808 RE-303 and System 100

video upload by Peter Maas

"Dawless Acid workout:

TR808 as main drums and clock
System 100 (2x101, 2x102, 1x103, 1x104) on bassline and noise
RE-303 on Acid Squelches
Vorg Tape delay, WA 1176 and Distressor as main outboard.

No effects added in computer; one take recording"

DX5 performing Depeche Mode "Ghosts Again" cover

video upload by DX5

"Recorded at the second try. There is a wrong note at 3:35, I left it acting as watermark (for those stealing audio and selling it later :-)
Gear used:
Korg DW8000 (triggering the Access Virus TI Snow)
Roland JP8000 (arpeggiator receiving MIDI Clock from Pro Tools)
Kurzweil PC1x
Emu Emax
Backtrack previously recorded, instrument by instrument, by me on Pro Tools. Other gear used: Roland Promars (Bass), JX8P and a Roland TR808 (that I sampled years ago) for intro drums.
Original song composed by Martin L. Gore, Richard Butler.
Performed here by DX5 Jose Maria Bara"

Creation Modular Systems - Red 909 & 808 Red Rack Based Modular Drum System

via @KleineMusic, via @emptyvesselnz

"Anyone know anything about this? a modular drum unit with all analogue versions of the TR909 Bass/Snare/Clap/HH and a TR808 Bass/Snare....."

Modules from left to right:

TR-909 BASS ms-9 w/ Level, Tune, Attack, and Decay knobs
TR-909 SNARE ms-9 w/ Lvel, Tune, Snap, and Tone knobs
TR-909 CLAP ms-9 w/ Level knob
TR-909 HiHAT ms-6 w/ Level, Tune, OH Decay, and CH knobs
TR-808 BASS ms-8 w/ Level, Tone, and Decay knobs
TR-808 SNARE ms-8 w/ Level, Tone, and Snappy knobs
PROFESSIONAL DRUM - SYSTEM - modular systems - blank panel
PROFESSIONAL DRUM - SYSTEM control panel with Limited logo, MAIN volume knob, ON switch, an additional knob with button, three TRIGGER LEDs w/ buttons, and a small display with an additional button.

It's interesting that the TR-909 HiHat has a ms-6 label rather than ms-9.

Note there are no patch points. It almost looks like a Clavia (Nord) prototype rack drum system. It does appear to be 3U high like eurorack. Could be a nicely done DIY system.

This appears to be the first post to feature Modular Systems on the site. If anyone knows anything about them, let us know! Thanks to @emptyvesselnz for bringing this to our attention. Whenever I think I've captured it all after 15 years of running the site, something new old pops up. See the New Old label below for more.

Update: two new pics in via @KleineMusic. You can see the brand name on back is Creation Modular Systems. You can see individual outs, main stereo outs, MIDI In, Thru, Thru-1, Thru-2, and 3 trigger outs, and AC 230 V socket on back.

Dawless analog synthesizer electronic/techno/electro jam

video upload by Peter Maas

"Playing with the Minimoog, Juno 106, TR808 and Peak. sbf350 for extreme stereo goodness."

Adonis No Way Back Too Far Gone cover on the Roland TR808 & TB303 #shorts

video upload by TONELAB

8raw8 - TR808 CLONE

Note: Auction links are affiliate links for which the site may be compensated.

via this auction

"In perfect Condition Made with love in the south of the France by a Really passionate guy

Sounds Great the mod on the kick drum is a MUST !"

You can find demos of the 8raw8 in previous posts here.

CLICK FOR MORE »

Recreated 808 Sounds From One Synthesizer #roland #tr808 #flstudio

video upload by Roimrachok

Practice session for liveset / techno - TR808, Oberheim SEM and RE-303

video upload by

"More practicing for a live set. Have been playing around with the equipment:

* Beats: TR808 through Bugbrand EQ, Moog DFAM
* Synths: DinSync RE-303 through KGB Fuzz, Oberheim SEM through Boss Chorus and Novation Peak
* Samples: Elektron Digitakt
* Mixers: Boss KM60 and Eela S50
* Effects: Strymon El Capistan stereo delay, Merris Mercury stereo reverb
* Compression: Bugbrand stereo compression, Eela built-in limiter.
* Sequencing: Future Retro Mobius, Arturia Keystep"

Live electro/acid/techno jam using tr808 and re-303

video upload by Peter Maas

"Practicing with the setup I have been building for a live performance. Everything feeds to the boss KM60, TR-808 on beats, through bugbrand EQ, RE-303 for acid lines, Oberheim SEM for bass.... Novation Peak for pads and Moog DFAM voor zaps."

DX5 Playing RAF "Self Control" (Laura Branigan vers).

video upload by DX5

"An excellent Italo dance anthem, composed by Raffaele Riefoli (RAF), Giancarlo Bigazzi and Steve Piccolo, covered here with the arrangements featured on Laura Branigan's version (which includes a lot of DX7 on it). The electric guitar doesn't fit much as on the original song; sounds a bit dimmed on the intro. I should have post produced it a bit more, but just did this on a hurry :)

Gear used:
Roland JP8000 (Slow attack filtered intro chords).
Kurzweil PC1x (Sampled guitar, fill chords, fast attack distorted sound)
Roland JX8P (filtered pad).
Emu Emax 1 (Programmed bell type sound, directly sampled from my DX7, including a second layer for the extra verse).

Backtrack previously recorded, track by track, on Pro Tools. Including Roland TR808 (intro drums with some random miliseconds delay) and a Yamaha DX7 for the bassline.
Peformed here by DX5 Jose Maria Bara."

Synth Jam 89: Roland T8 Aira Compact

video upload by Marcus Padrini

Another embed missing the thumbnail. Just hit the play button.

"A Roland T8 é um instrumento compacto, que combina uma drum machine com timbres de equipamentos clássicos( tr808, tr909, tr707 e tr606) e um sintetizador de baixo no estilo TB303."

Roland TR-808 Eproms inside a Sequential Circuit DRUMTRAKS.

video upload by Program 17

"This is roland TR808 eproms chips that I programmed for a drumtraks using an oberhiem prommer. SOme of the generation loss only happens when you pitch the toms very low beacue its low bits."

SH101 & TR808 having fun.

video upload by dyLAB0303

"Probably the longest sequence I’ve written on the 101 in a long while. Came up with sequence while triggering gates and pressing keys, then had to figure easiest way to repeat it. Use the sequencer was best answer rather than external sequenced CV in from MC202.
Sequence from the SH101.
Beats & Trigger TR808.
Probably needs a massive side chain sucking that synth."