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Hammerhead Rhythm Station (1997)

21 points by FairDune 5y ago

recursivedoubts 5y ago
never forget what they took from us
- henriquez 5y ago
  what did who take from us?
  - kristaps 5y ago
    I can't believe you've forgotten!
  - recursivedoubts 5y ago
    smh
nxpnsv 5y ago
There is a 2021 iOS version https://apps.apple.com/de/app/hammerhead-rhythm-station/id1568699989 https://apps.apple.com/de/app/hammerhead-rhythm-station/id15...
- drcongo 5y ago
  Bram Bos makes some of the best soft-synths available on iOS - Mononoke is an especially beautiful thing. The anniversary version of Hammerhead is an absolute joy.
  - tekstar 5y ago
    Yes!! Just to be explicit here - the dev behind the original Hammerhead makes a whole suite of iOS music apps now. Still going strong, crazy value for the money. Bram Bos is great.
ssss11 5y ago
That brings back memories!!!
- FairDune 5y ago
  This still works exactly the same on Win 10 if you set compatibility mode to "Win XP SP3".
- learningmore 5y ago
  We shared this with each other in college- back in 1998. Tons of fun!
- harvie 5y ago
  Oh yeah, i member.
gillesjacobs 5y ago
The highlight for me in highschool music class was learning to use Hammerhead for an assignment. I was horrible at the recorder and dreaded music class because of it, but creating beats was fun.
krylon 5y ago
Heh, I remember playing around with Hammerhead back in the 1990s. Nothing came of it, but it was fun. Sadly, the download link appears to be broken. :-(
- FairDune 5y ago
  Indeed it isn't working. Cnet or other download repositories has the exe available.
  - krylon 5y ago
    They do, yes. Thank you!
ratww 5y ago
I used that to make tracks with Hammerhead in the 90s. Some of my friends also did. I was too young to club in 1997, but I knew Prodigy. The "Jungle" preset showed the secret to the some Prodigy drum sounds. Being young I was quite late in the game, and that thrashy DnB wasn't fashionable anymore (everyone was into quieter DnB around the 2000s), but our teen group loved it and it was a blast to show it to friends. I had one of the free DAWs from the time, but one of my pals used SoundForge to put drums together. Very time consuming but to be fair I was more productive back them than now. When I interned at a professional studio, I also used it a couple times in customer tracks that required electronic drums. We had a Roland TR-505 I think, but some customers thought it sounded too 80s for the time. For anyone who doesn't have Windows or can't install it, here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4aaBzyH7hU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4aaBzyH7hU
- hnlmorg 5y ago
  IIRC the "jungle" preset was just the Amen break: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFKMtv8tU0U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFKMtv8tU0U
  - Gravityloss 5y ago
    Record companies and artists selling their sample stuff for millions and the original artist who made that drum solo got nothing, dying homeless in 2006. If we worry about piracy, we should worry about this stuff too.
    - hnlmorg 5y ago
      In fairness, the vast majority of tracks that use the amen break aren't going to make "millions". It started out as a few underground records that would have a relatively limited distribution. There was a lot of sampling that went on and nobody really thought anything of it because people weren't making large sums of money from it. In fact underground artists would often sample each other too and nobody minded. The problem was the amen break got sampled and almost nobody knew where it came from. It then got resampled and resampled, it was sampled so often that it started to appear on sample disks as if it were public domain. It's only relatively recently that it's become public knowledge. Heck, I'd been producing music for years before I realised and probably used that sample myself. The Winstons would have had no way to know they were being sampled either because of how niche that music scene was (and to some extent still is). So by the time the industry was big enough that artists were making a killing from that sample, it was already out there and everywhere. I'm not saying it's fair but its far from the only sample to have been used everywhere with little recognition and sampling was one of the pivotal revolutions that gave the rise electronic music.
samjanis 5y ago
Aaaahhhh.... This brings back so many memories. Roland MCs, 808s, 909s, the RM1x. They were good times. Bram Bos also made moonfish as a sequencer, using the same UI style as hammerhead https://archive.org/details/moonfish12 https://archive.org/details/moonfish12
uxp100 5y ago
So what's going on with "threechords.com"? The root page is full of broken links to sheetmusicplus, and this page says the editor is not associated with the developer of hammerhead. I mean, that was not uncommon for freeware/shareware 20+ years ago, but just sort of a funny mish mash of things here.

21 points by FairDune 5y ago

recursivedoubts 5y ago

never forget what they took from us

henriquez 5y ago
what did who take from us?
- kristaps 5y ago
  I can't believe you've forgotten!
- recursivedoubts 5y ago
  smh

nxpnsv 5y ago

There is a 2021 iOS version https://apps.apple.com/de/app/hammerhead-rhythm-station/id1568699989 https://apps.apple.com/de/app/hammerhead-rhythm-station/id15...

drcongo 5y ago
Bram Bos makes some of the best soft-synths available on iOS - Mononoke is an especially beautiful thing. The anniversary version of Hammerhead is an absolute joy.
- tekstar 5y ago
  Yes!! Just to be explicit here - the dev behind the original Hammerhead makes a whole suite of iOS music apps now. Still going strong, crazy value for the money. Bram Bos is great.

ssss11 5y ago

That brings back memories!!!

FairDune 5y ago
This still works exactly the same on Win 10 if you set compatibility mode to "Win XP SP3".
learningmore 5y ago
We shared this with each other in college- back in 1998. Tons of fun!
harvie 5y ago
Oh yeah, i member.

gillesjacobs 5y ago

The highlight for me in highschool music class was learning to use Hammerhead for an assignment. I was horrible at the recorder and dreaded music class because of it, but creating beats was fun.

krylon 5y ago

Heh, I remember playing around with Hammerhead back in the 1990s. Nothing came of it, but it was fun. Sadly, the download link appears to be broken. :-(

FairDune 5y ago
Indeed it isn't working. Cnet or other download repositories has the exe available.
- krylon 5y ago
  They do, yes. Thank you!

ratww 5y ago

I used that to make tracks with Hammerhead in the 90s. Some of my friends also did. I was too young to club in 1997, but I knew Prodigy. The "Jungle" preset showed the secret to the some Prodigy drum sounds. Being young I was quite late in the game, and that thrashy DnB wasn't fashionable anymore (everyone was into quieter DnB around the 2000s), but our teen group loved it and it was a blast to show it to friends. I had one of the free DAWs from the time, but one of my pals used SoundForge to put drums together. Very time consuming but to be fair I was more productive back them than now. When I interned at a professional studio, I also used it a couple times in customer tracks that required electronic drums. We had a Roland TR-505 I think, but some customers thought it sounded too 80s for the time. For anyone who doesn't have Windows or can't install it, here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4aaBzyH7hU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4aaBzyH7hU

hnlmorg 5y ago
IIRC the "jungle" preset was just the Amen break: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFKMtv8tU0U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFKMtv8tU0U
- Gravityloss 5y ago
  Record companies and artists selling their sample stuff for millions and the original artist who made that drum solo got nothing, dying homeless in 2006. If we worry about piracy, we should worry about this stuff too.
  - hnlmorg 5y ago
    In fairness, the vast majority of tracks that use the amen break aren't going to make "millions". It started out as a few underground records that would have a relatively limited distribution. There was a lot of sampling that went on and nobody really thought anything of it because people weren't making large sums of money from it. In fact underground artists would often sample each other too and nobody minded. The problem was the amen break got sampled and almost nobody knew where it came from. It then got resampled and resampled, it was sampled so often that it started to appear on sample disks as if it were public domain. It's only relatively recently that it's become public knowledge. Heck, I'd been producing music for years before I realised and probably used that sample myself. The Winstons would have had no way to know they were being sampled either because of how niche that music scene was (and to some extent still is). So by the time the industry was big enough that artists were making a killing from that sample, it was already out there and everywhere. I'm not saying it's fair but its far from the only sample to have been used everywhere with little recognition and sampling was one of the pivotal revolutions that gave the rise electronic music.

samjanis 5y ago

Aaaahhhh.... This brings back so many memories. Roland MCs, 808s, 909s, the RM1x. They were good times. Bram Bos also made moonfish as a sequencer, using the same UI style as hammerhead https://archive.org/details/moonfish12 https://archive.org/details/moonfish12

uxp100 5y ago

So what's going on with "threechords.com"? The root page is full of broken links to sheetmusicplus, and this page says the editor is not associated with the developer of hammerhead. I mean, that was not uncommon for freeware/shareware 20+ years ago, but just sort of a funny mish mash of things here.