zx81 drum machine ?

polar69 · Post by **polar69** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 8:24 pm

Its not every day I come across something that makes me say "What the heck is this ????"

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/M-P-C-Music-Percu ... otohosting

What the heck ?

Sir Ruff · Post by **Sir Ruff** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 9:01 pm

those things look amazing... forget the pads, I just love all the knobs and buttons.

Post by **Logan 5** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 10:42 pm

I always wanted one of these!I remember seeing them at the time,but have never actually used one.
I had the Sinclair ZX81 and then the Spectrum,to which I added a Cheetah SpecDrum using the printer port.It had some drum samples and at the time sounded revolutionary to me!I played it along with my Jen SX1000.
Happy Days!

crystalmsc · Post by **crystalmsc** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 7:09 am

that knobs and stuff just looks awesome.

Post by **Vxster** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:39 am

I have one of these. They are quite nice - sound like a sort of cross between a 606 and an 808.

Alex E · Post by **Alex E** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:31 pm

There's a virtual one that is similar to this one at the audio playground:
http://www.keyboardmuseum.org/d_machines/thekit.html

Looks pretty cool. Too bad I'll never find one here in the US though.

tim gueguen · Post by **tim gueguen** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 3:57 pm

I'm sure I saw a magazine ad in some early 80s musician's magazine featuring session great Bernard "Pretty" Purdie shilling for MPC electronic percussion. Whether he actually used their gear for more than five minutes is another question.

Post by **madtheory** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:17 am

LFO, the Sheffield group, early Warp signees, used one of these a lot. Nice sounds, but nothing you couldn't do with Waldorf Attack.