oberheim dmx, sp-12, linndrums, sci drumtraks etc. i´ve looking many ways to replicate those great machines, and one day i found eproms (ascii data?) taken from these units. 80´s drum machines basicly are sampleplayers with vco and vcf.. and all the data is 8-bit. what i´ve found is that allmost every drummachine first sampled (piece by piece), and then mapped and played again with ANY sampler, lose some very important "character" on the sound. maybe because of the AD/DA conversions, maybe because of summing, i don´t know.. anyway, there is something very special how these drum machines creates the sound! so, the idea is that i wanna throw data from these machines straight to EII and see what happens. have anyone tried this so far?
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using EII as a vintage drummachine
2008-03-11 by roisto