A Rogue's Gallery of Unusual Drum Machines

[tshear23]

Hey everyone - I know this is Vintage SYNTH Explorer, but where would we have been in the early days without drum machine to lay down the beat for us? So I posted an article over on Waveformless I thought might interest people here taking a look at some historical, rare, and just plain weird drum machines over the years. I'm sure someone here can enlighten us to some more, so by all means, chime in!


http://waveformless.blogspot.com/2011/1 ... hines.html

[walkathon]

$5k for the Quintron? Interesting kit, but no wonder I was so suspicious of it at the time ... still seems like a hipstery shaggy dog inside joke, to be dead honest. Also, deep in my memory banks, I recall twice visiting my neighbor, a pretty brilliant EE, while he was trying to revive his Paia orange box. No dice.

Thx for the list, btw.

[madtheory]

Great stuff, thanks!

"It belonged to Dave. 'e flogged it to me for 500 quid". Hahahaha!

[sequentialsoftshock]

I like drum machines. A lot. However, the MPC is technically a sampler with a sequencer.

[gearfixer]

Lots of them in this video.