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Since Christmas DSK Music have released a vintage drum machines rompler known as
mini DrumZ plus two software synths:
Odisea and
ThoR. All are free downloads. Below is a summary of their features…
mini DrumZ features the sounds of the following drum machines:
- 1. Ace Tone Rhythm Ace, Kakehashi’s pre-Roland sound drum machine.
- 2. Akai XE8, the 1U rack mount unit with 16-bit drum samples.
- 3. Akai XR10.
- 4. Alesis HR-16, one of Alesis’s first drum machines.
- 5. Boss DR-55, first drum machine from Roland with the name Boss.
- 6. Boss DR-220, typical mid 80’s digital drum sounds.
- 7. Fricke MSB512
- 8. Kawai R50, 12 bit 32K sampled drums.
- 9. Korg DDD-1, came with 18 short PCM samples.
- 10. Korg DDM110, lo-fi and crunchy sounding.
- 11. Mattel SynSonic, from the people who brought you Barbie…
- 12. MXR 185, the machine where it’s hard to tell rim from snare.
- 13. Roland CR-78, the 1978 drum machine that used analog drum voices.
- 14. Roland TR-606, originally designed to be used with the Roland TB-303.
- 15. Roland TR-727, latin drum kit version of the TR-707.
- 16. Roland TR-808, originally manufactured for use as a tool for studio musicians to create demos.
- 17. Roland TR-909, partially analog, partially sample-based drum machine.
- 18. SCI DrumTraks, Sequential’s first digital drum machine.
- 19. SCI Tom, similar to the DrumTraks but more advanced.
- 20. Yamaha RX11, the drum machine that looks like a DX.
Odisea
- 2 Osc, 5 waveforms
- Octave select and micro-detuner
- Amp. envelope
- Filter
- easy programming
- Midi automation
- Preset selector
ThoR
- 4 Osc, 5 waveforms, ADSR, pan (+ routing)
- Octave select and micro-detuner
- 4 Filter
- 3 advanced LFO (+ routing + 4 user memory slots)
- Fx (4 delay)
- Midi automation
- Preset selector
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