Yamaha digital drumcomputer RX5 & more

yamaha RX-5 well.. not analogue, 12bit .. there is an Env in it and you can set the pitch.. that heped a lot making „new“ sounds, especially lofi stuff.. there was a 808 card available.. well mine broke down in the 80ies caused by the card .. 12bit series of RX5 drum machines, the smaller ones (beside RX7+RX5) were quite simple ones.. the RX series in general: RX5, RX7 and the small RX21 were rom-based drum machines for the „mass market“.. the rx5 was the top model and for the…

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Linndrum II – The ex-Boomchik

You were wondering about the progress of Roger Linn+Dave Smith making a Drummachine? There’s a little milestone posted on matrix 12/23/2007 10:29:00 AM showing details.. „LinnDrum II So no BoomChik but the name now is the LinnDrum II! Aha, well, so it’s Dave looking smaller than Roger ;) Article is in the new Future Music with nice pics (it looks quite different from the Boomchik pics): 2 versions of the new Drum Machine to be Launched: 1 All Digital with Sample playback 2 Digital and Analogue (IE version above but…

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JoMoX/Jayemsonic Synth overview

JOMOX JoMoX/Jayemsonic Synth overview / überblick.. airbase & xbase09 family analog drum synthesizer / drum machine .. und vergleich mit TR909.. Jomox Sunsyn?gegen andromeda? hier audio xbase/airbase/se-xbase -> m-base , x-base , jazbase .. scrollen!! more german synthesizers.. NEW: Xbase 999 (2005, winter)- has now full Set of 16 Instruments per Pad, Toms, BD;SDs from the xbase 09 and all instruments are polyphonic, the sequencer is still like the xbase 09 one, but „larger“ , and 5 external tracks can be controlled by the new xbase 999. it’s still all…

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