What was your first Drum Machine?

[AbsoluteSpirit]

TR505 that I hated, followed by a Kawai R50...

...then went out to buy an Alesis SR16 and 'upsold' myself on the train journey in and came home with an E-mu ESI-32 sampler instead...

[jude]

i was given a 909 when i was about 10. i threw it out cos i thought it was a shit toy... please, feel free.... i deserve it

[stevedemena]

Originally Posted by sequela

lol


as far hardware goes my first drum machine was a Roland TR-707 i like those Snares, and the sequencer is cool

TR-707 was my first too. Great snares & kick & sequencer.

[liotta soda]

Mine was Fruity loops on bootleg

[MixedSignals]

SR16 too. Learned sequencing on it, still have it MIDI'd.
Most of them drum sounds are much better resampled/transposed up, give it some low EQ...tight hard hitting, nice to bust out some quick loops.

[Izok]

Rx5 bought new mid 80's...

Still got it somewhere...

[zinedine]

ni battery 3 e the digital drum machine ;D

[SamplerUpgrades]

Alesis HR-16. Weve come a long way since then.

[sabine]

TR 626

[Tommycash]

Casio sk-1, loved that thing. First drum machine was a Dr. Rhythm

[stilts27]

Not knowing what I really had but played with: commodore 64
Messed with actually wanting to produce: Alesis SR-16
Purchased: MPC 1k

[Dayl]

Fruity Loops 2 on a Pentium III machine .... that was ballin... you have no idea...

If you were lucky enough to be doing this shit around when FL2 and more importantly when FL 3 dropped, you would have a lot more insight into why it still has a bad rep.... major shake up.

Used Rebirth around the same time.

[Goa-Dubs]

Further to my previous post i just ordered another Roland R8 (mk2 this time)still got the electronic card too.Should still be able to run around this thing in a shizzle!!!as it was my first love.It will sit next to the sp303 for some tweeked up sound on sound action.All piped into Logic/ableton of course.Gotta get back on that fl trip to....

[dlmorley]

Originally Posted by Goa-Dubs

Further to my previous post i just ordered another Roland R8 (mk2 this time)still got the electronic card too.Should still be able to run around this thing in a shizzle!!!as it was my first love.It will sit next to the sp303 for some tweeked up sound on sound action.All piped into Logic/ableton of course.Gotta get back on that fl trip to....

The R8 mk2 is an amazing machine. I'd keep mine over my tr808.

[KT1]

My old Mans modular :o Later a digital sequencer called a yamaha qy700 - probably does not fit into the drum maschine world. Then an MPC 3k.

[awhitebeats]

2000XL

[Goa-Dubs]

Originally Posted by KT1

My old Mans modular :o .

You dont need another drum box if you got that.Youve gone beyond

The R8 mk2 is an amazing machine. I'd keep mine over my tr808.

Im quite excited.I sold my 808.Made some samples tho.

[misjah]

Boss DR 550 when i was about 12 years old lol!

[Flip_]

roland mc-303. It had a lot of the classic roland drum machine samples in it, but they got old after a while and had a cheap sound quality about them.

[longbongsilver]

Rebirth, on a Gateway running Windows 98.

Shortly afterwards, a classmate at the time that was wantin to rap asked if it could sample. I then added in Fruity Loops 2 for that reason. Didn't have a proper turntable setup back then so I was tryin to sample using the Windows default sound recorder by micing my stereo speaker. Talk about lo-fi...

[ObiK]

Boss SP 505 soon followed by an MPC 1000.

[onceagain]

Alesis HR16 - and i thought it sounded exactly like a drum kit )

[Tnevz]

Mv 8800.
It's a beast.

[alex!]

Edit* I already posted in this thread.

[LAVLAB]

Boss DR-3

[Tha Govna]

The Ensoniq ASR-10 and the ASR-X were my first keyboard and drum machine.

[SpaceAgeMarty]

AsrXpro!! Was my 1st drum machine, then I upgraded to NI - Maschine. Major Difference MAJOR!

[Goa-Dubs]

Originally Posted by SpaceAgeMarty

AsrXpro!! Was my 1st drum machine, then I upgraded to NI - Maschine. Major Difference MAJOR!

Ive used both.Dont see so much an upghrade.Seriously the asr is legendary and the maSchine is nice and easy to use but sounds the same as any puter texture/ensamble.Glad you like it tho.Id use both for serious work.

[bigblessin]

roland DR-5. It was a blessing that it was my first one because the the when you play the sounds the pads correlated a guitar. I would buy it again lol.

[UltimateOutsider]

Man, a lot of hate here on the Roland TR-505! It was my first drum machine- the only one I could afford at the time. I wasn't looking for dance sounds, so it sufficed; I doubt I even knew what the 808 and 909 were at the time.

I programmed all of my early songs on the 505. It was the rhythmic backbone of every track until I got an Atari ST and started using sequencers.

I even remember a couple of times where I reprogrammed the 505's pad note assignments so I could program basslines on it, triggering my Alpha Juno 1.

I sold the 505 on USENET, years before eBay, and the Juno gave up the ghost after several years in storage. :(

I do remember being disappointed with my Alesis SR-16, which I got when I was starting to do more dancey stuff. That was before it was common for drum machines to simply include all the 909 and 808 sounds, so the Alesis had all these drums that sounded kinda like the Roland ones, but just didn't work the same.