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Drum memory was a magnetic data storage device invented by Gustav Tauschek in 1932 in Austria. [1] [2] Drums were widely used in the 1950s and into the 1960s as computer memory. Many early computers, called drum computers or drum machines, used drum memory as the main working memory of the computer. [3]
There were reported cases of drum bearing failures that caused the machine to tear itself apart and send the heavy drum crashing through walls. At the time of their introduction the storage capacity exceeded any other random access mass storage disk or drum. There were three models of FASTRAND drives: FASTRAND I had a single drum.
E-mu SP-12. The E-mu SP-12 is a sampling drum machine. [1] Designed in 1984, SP-12 was announced by E-mu Systems in 1985. [2] Expanding on the features of E-mu’s affordable and commercially successful Drumulator, a programmable digital drum machine, SP-12 introduced user sampling, enabling musicians to sample their own drums and other sounds.
Just as engineering a digital sampler to operate using one shared memory had allowed Emulator to be made more attainable than systems including the Fairlight CMI, E-mu Systems co-founders Scott Wedge and Dave Rossum realized that an affordable digital drum machine could be invented using a shared memory, resulting in Drumulator, the first ...
The Linn 9000 was Roger Linn's first attempt to create an integrated sampling/sequencing/MIDI workstation, but it was plagued with problems from the beginning. [5] [6] On early models, the power supply over-heated the CPU and had to be replaced under warranty, but insurmountable issues with the Linn 9000's operating system forced its eventual demise.
Hydrogen is an open-source drum machine created by Alessandro Cominu, an Italian programmer who goes by the pseudonym Comix. [1] Its main goal is to provide professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming. Hydrogen was originally developed for Linux, and later ported to Mac OS X and Windows.
The SpecDrum was an 8-voice machine (i.e. it allowed the user to load 8 different percussion samples). However it only had 3 output channels (i.e. maximum polyphony of 3 samples at a time) - the first channel could trigger the 'bass drum' voice, the second channel was used for the three snare/tom voices, and the third channel for the remaining ...
The front of an emulator, showing the USB port in which a flash drive is connected. A floppy disk hardware emulator or semi-virtual diskette (SVD) is a device that emulates a floppy disk drive with a solid state or network storage device that is plug compatible with the drive it replaces, similar to how solid-state drives replace mechanical ...