An old request for drum circuits

Andreas Nystrom andreas.nystrom at linkoping.mail.telia.com
Sun Jan 5 00:39:09 CET 1997


Chris Crosskey wrote:
> 
> Hi Hane,
> I've got quite a lot of drum circuits in paper copy form, and some as .GIF
> too. In paper I've got the TR808 and 909, and most of the EM&M Syn-series,
> the Synbal, the Syntom, the Syndrum, the Syndrum2 and the synchime. One of
> the Syndrums used EPROM's of samples, and although I haven't got any
> I know where I can get them from. It should also be possible to mod
> the circuits (to a greater or lesser degree) to handle EPROM's from
> the assortedcommercial drum-synths, like the Simmons, the Linn, the
> Drumulator (IIRC) and the Obie DSX. I've got .GIF's of the EM&M stuff
> too. I've also got an old Frontline X2 drum synth. It's a 2 Osc plus
> noise, sweep, balance, click, waveshape, filter, and pitch unit, and
> I love the sound enough to take it to pieces and see if I can
> retro-engineer the circuits. At some point in the distant future,
> I'll be re-laying some of these to correspond to my idea of good
> design, with all the pots on the board, no bracketry required, and
> all to fit in with my pet panel design that I've used on my VCO (well
> a copy of Gene's VCO with some extra options on tranny pair), my
> VCF/VCA's, ADSR's and other modules in the pipeline. I'm aiming to
> have a purely analogue modular studio bar my JD800, my FZ-1 and my
> Atari STE, so I'll need the drums sooner or later. Email me or the
> list (I access about twice a week) if you want any/all of the circuits.
>          chrisc

I WANT TO, I WANT TO, I WANT TO 8-).

I Just love synthezisers, its my life, and now im reading electronics
just to get all that i need to make my own. Hm, so i would like to have
the curcuits, to see how they did things!.



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