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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]
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. The large mass of the rotating drum caused gyroscopic precession of the unit, making it tend to spin on the computer room floor as the Earth rotated under it ...
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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.
E-mu Drumulator is a sample-based drum machine by E-mu Systems. Introduced in 1983 at a price of $995 USD, the Drumulator was the first programmable drum machine with built-in samples for under $1,000, [1] resulting in sales of over 10,000 units over two years. [2] The Drumulator was the predecessor of the E-mu SP-12.
Its design is of a sewing machine. [5] PO-14 Sub - a bass synthesizer with 15 sounds that also includes a micro drum machine with 16 parts. You can play the sounds over two octaves using the buttons as a keyboard. [5] Its design is of a submarine. [8] PO-16 Factory - a melodic lead synthesizer with 15 lead sounds and (like the PO-14) a micro ...
The Drumtraks was Sequentials first drum machine and their first sample-based product. It was designed at Sequential in San Jose by Dave Smith, Steve Salani, Donna Murray, and Chris Meyer, who wrote the MIDI software. The units were built in Japan which allowed Sequential to keep the pricing down. [2]
The Kawai R-100 is drum machine released in 1987. [2] The R-100 is the bigger brother of the R-50 and having velocity sensitive pads unlike the R-50. It has 24 on board samples that are 12-bit PCM format with a sample rate of 32kHz [3] and eight individual outputs as well as stereo and mono outputs for routing to an external mixing desk.