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Legendary drum machines fall mostly in two categories : analog ones such as the Roland TR808 (and also electronic drums such as the Simmons SDS5), and early dig
by wazoox 2y ago
Legendary drum machines fall mostly in two categories : analog ones such as the Roland TR808 (and also electronic drums such as the Simmons SDS5), and early digital ones such as the LinnDrum and the Oberheim DMX, which use low bit samples (8 or 12 bits at most) and have an highly coloured sound (so that people still like to make new ROM kits for these, then sample the output).
Later models (starting in the 90s) have "CD quality sample" and probably aren't particularly worth sampling.
However some late machines such as the MPC series have audibly special sequencers, and "swing" in their own, peculiar way. So sampling individual sounds isn't particularly interesting, but sampling drum loops can be interesting.
- JodieBenitez 2y ago> the MPC series have audibly special sequencers, and "swing" in their own, peculiar way. Best explained by Roger Linn himself: > My implementation of swing has always been very simple: I merely delay the second 16th note within each 8th note. In other words, I delay all the even-numbered 16th notes within the beat (2, 4, 6, 8, etc.) https://www.attackmagazine.com/features/interview/roger-linn-swing-groove-magic-mpc-timing/ https://www.attackmagazine.com/features/interview/roger-linn...
- fuhsnn 2y agoIt's a bit more than bit depths, some use non-linear encoding (mu-law etc) which also contribute to uniqueness.