Re: Drum Machine solutions

[Brian Kupferschmid <apparitionapparition@yahoo.com>]

You know, if you have an older unit(I used to own a
Roland TR-505, but I had a brief fit of stupidity and
sold it)that has MIDI capabilities, you can use it to
drive your sequencer in your computer or drive a
sampler.  Another trick I used to do was effect the
crap out of it, I had a reverse reverb program that I
used once and made an awesome sounding tune with
backward guitars and tight rhythm playing that easily
could've been used in a porn flick.  The other option
to consider is circuit bending.  Right before I sold
my 505, I was going to have it shipped out to one of
those guys that mods the crap out of stuff like that
and have it so I can pull an additional 16 sounds or
whatever out of it.  I didn't, and am still
considering buying another one already modded out.  so
think about that as an option as well.
--- Douglas Baldwin <coyotelk@optonline.net> wrote:

>     With all this talk about getting tired of drum
> machines, I can't help
> but wonder why no one has mentioned pitch shift as a
> way to create new
> sounds. I have an old Alesis HR-16 (the early grey
> version of the MR-16) and
> I've NEVER tired of retuning the drums, mixing
> sounds to achieve new
> textures, etc. Three quickies for audio refreshment:
>     * tune the floor tom way down and use it for a
> kick drum. The long, slow
> resonance sounds like John Bonham in the hallway at
> Brwn-ay-yur.
>     * mix a little timbale or high-tuned piccolo
> snare with the wood snare
> for extra snap. Or mix a little down-tuned wood
> block with the kick drum. Or
> a little downtuned triangle with the ride cymbal. Or
> any wack retuned sound
> with the "normal" sound. (Downtuned tambourines
> sound like a bag of pots and
> pans.)
>     * because the HR-16 won't allow the same sound
> to overlay upon itself,
> you can play a sound two times in a row, edit the
> firsat attack to volume =
> 8 (max), second attack to volume = 1 (min), and you
> get instant gating.
>     I remember demo'ing a Boss drum box which had
> tuning increments in
> microtones. Just the sound of retuning the cymbals
> and triangles was wicked
> cool! Stupid flangey overtones whirling about!
>     And of course this is without running your
> "boring" drum machine into
> some manglatorio stomp box...!
> Douglas Baldwin, coyote-at-large
> coyotelk@optonline.net
> 
> 



                
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