Is that why a Korg KPR-77 has already been bid up to more than $500, and why a Korg Poly-800 is now over $600? People think they're buying a piece of history?

I tend to agree. These machines seem too mass-market for Kraftwerk. Besides, I doubt they ever used drum machines. Probably just synthesized the sounds themselves.calaverasgrande wrote:I have a hard time believing Kraftwerk used either. Though I wouldn't rule it out. I mean they have used all kind of whacky stuff, even flutes!
I'm intimately famliar with both of those. The KPR77 being my main drum machine lately.
I can't think of a single Kraftwerk song that has it's distinctive clap, hats or cymbals.
And the Poly 800?
Jeepers, if those guys could make that thing funky I'm even more in awe of them than I already am. By the time that one came out they were pretty much doing almost all samplers anyway right?
They definitely used drum machines. There's 808 and linn drum (maybe lm-1) littered all over electric cafe for example. However yeah I doubt they used some of stuff in the auctions, maybe even none of it.Aaron2 wrote:Besides, I doubt they ever used drum machines. Probably just synthesized the sounds themselves.
It has to be one of the hardest to learn drum machines I've ever used. But it does date from the dawn of drum machines so it's kind of an evolutionary throwback in terms of pattern and song construction. And it's only din sync.Aaron2 wrote:calaverasgrande wrote:
OT: I have a KPR-77 myself, but still haven't decided whether it's worth the time to learn how to use it. I've been hearing that it's a bear to program. Did it take you long to master it?
How do you know?ppg_wavecomputer wrote:It´s all from Florian Schneider´s collection.
Stephen
Yes, I know but anybody could use that picture I guessppg_wavecomputer wrote:
Apart from that, the Elektro Müller doorway is Mintrop Strasse 16 in Central Düsseldorf.
I remember a while back someone had a bunch of crappy consumer graphic EQs that allegedly came from Todd Rundgren's studio. The ebay auction for the lot of EQs was a bunch of gushing nonsense speculating that 'the genius' (debatable) probably used them for one of his 'well known studio tricks' (debatable). Nevermind that they were unbalanced and pretty cruddy SNR units. Most likely they were used to tweak headphone mixes for talent. But hey, anything is possible in the imagination of an ebay seller!8bit9bot wrote:just cuz some junk was laying around in a studio doesnt mean that people who used those studios put that junk on their records - just sayin