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RE: R: Drum machines--other neophyte questions



The sp808 doesn't have any drum sets. It just plays back samples you 
record.

-----Original Message-----
From: nitesh patel [mailto:tesh@gte.net]
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 1999 12:34 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
Subject: Re: R: Drum machines--other neophyte questions


buy a sp808 groove box it has the best drum sets and it has old school
analog
dials to make the sounds they hear

Mr. Tough wrote:

> >From: "Bruce Comens" <bcomens@corelli.nexus.it>
> >Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
> >To: <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
> >Subject: R: Drum machines--other neophyte questions
> >Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 11:45:06 -0500
> >
> > > * Touch Sensitive Pads
> >
> >Does this mean you can control volume by how hard you tap them?   And
does
> >that
> >mean you can actually "play" the DR 660 (I've been thinking of the 770,
> >actually) in real (hah!) time?
> >
> You can play it in real time. You can also program it in real time. I
> realize that a lot of drum machines do this, but it's a lot of fun to do.
> Another cool thing you can do in the DR660 is shut off the the error
> correction, so you can make really flawed, sloppy sounding drum patterns.
> Although a lot of folks like it, the DR660 is kind of a cheesy sounding
drum
> machine. It takes a lot of effort to make it sound like anything you'd
hear
> on a CD. I can imagine a lot of bands feeling slightly embarrassed about
the
> obvious "drum machine bought for $300 at guitar center" sound. (Except 
>for
> bands that go for that sound in particular.)
>
> Mr. Tough
> Mr. Tough
>
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