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Roland marketed it as an affordable alternative to the Linn LM-1, manufactured by Linn Electronics, which used samples of real drum kits. [10] The 808 sounded simplistic and synthetic by comparison; electronic music had yet to become mainstream and many musicians and producers wanted realistic-sounding drum machines.
Yamaha DTX6K3-X kit with DTX PRO module. The Yamaha DTX series is a range of electronic drum kits and percussion controllers manufactured by the Yamaha Corporation. They currently cover levels from beginner to professional. DTX kits use sampling for their sounds, meaning each kit has built-in digital recordings of real drums, and cymbals.
Electronic drum kits, especially mesh-head based ones, make significantly less ambient noise than acoustic drum kits [7] and mesh heads provide a playing feel more similar to acoustic drums than non-mesh electronic pads (typically rubber). [1] Mesh heads used in V-Drums kits today are made by the American drumhead company Remo. [8]
The Roland TR-505 rhythm composer is a drum machine and MIDI sequencer released by Roland Corporation in 1986. [1] [2] It hails from the same family of drum machines as the Roland TR-909, TR-808, TR-707, TR-626 and TR-606. The drum kit includes basic rock drum sounds similar to those of the TR-707, plus a complement of Latin-style drum sounds ...
Logo The SDS 5 Electronic Drum Kit, ca.1981. Simmons SDS 5 front view. Simmons is an electronic drum brand, which originally was a pioneering British manufacturer of electronic drums. Founded in 1978 by Dave Simmons, [1] it supplied electronic kits from 1980 to 1998. The drums' distinctive, electronic sound can be found on countless albums from ...
The LM-1 was designed by the American engineer and guitarist Roger Linn in the late 1970s. [1] Linn was dissatisfied with drum machines available at the time, such as the Roland CR-78, and wanted a machine that did not simply play preset patterns and "sound like crickets".
As with most previous Roland drum machines, the bass and snare voices are generated by a "damped tuned resonance" oscillators. The cymbals and hi-hats are created by VCA-shaping and band-pass filtering a combination of white noise and four non-harmonically related square wave oscillators (generating a much more realistic sound than white noise ...
The Korg KARMA music workstation was released in 2001 as a specialised member of the Korg Triton family. KARMA stands for Kay's Algorithmic Real-time Music Architecture. [5] [6] The unit features up to 62 note polyphony [7] and is 16-part multitimbral.