What was your first Drum Machine?

[Goa-Dubs]

Originally Posted by deucetres

lol I suppose if you care more about a "legendary" status of gear than what it can actually do but I suspect for most people it would be a major upgrade.

Your right.For most average peeps the magic and sonic character of ensoniqs,rolands,emus ect is completely lost.Thats why they stopped making them.Same goes for all music equipment mentioned in this entire huge pro forum then

edit-ha ha just realised ive been noggined.Again

[Goa-Dubs]

Originally Posted by UltimateOutsider

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.

The SR16 is great for layering with another more beefy machine.Quite authentic sounding.Solid lil box.I remember the 505 being a lil flat sounding.Eighties machine funk.....

[dlmorley]

Originally Posted by 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.

The 505 was my first sequencer too along with a Juno 2 ! Great system. Made some nice sequences that way.

[UltimateOutsider]

Originally Posted by Goa-Dubs

The SR16 is great for layering with another more beefy machine.Quite authentic sounding.Solid lil box.

I've still got its rack-mount big brother, the D4, which I got for its (at the time) large array of traditional sounds. The unit is a little finicky (there's an IC that's a little too big for the circuit board that I sometimes have to push back into place), so one day I'll sample all the kits into Battery or Live.

Originally Posted by dlmorley

The 505 was my first sequencer too along with a Juno 2 ! Great system. Made some nice sequences that way.

Oh how I coveted the touch-sensitive keys of the Juno 2!

[dlmorley]

Originally Posted by UltimateOutsider

Oh how I coveted the touch-sensitive keys of the Juno 2!

I was a KING I tell you!
Then there was that cartridge slot...

Actually, I loved that synth. Not sure I would really like it as much now.
Had it's own sound which kind of became the sound of many techno records...
I liked it for pads more.

[Caramel]

Originally Posted by azwun25

not a drum machine but my first "beat maker" was a Roland W30. i kinda miss it sometimes but don't know why

The SOUND man ,the SOUND I still have 2 W30`s

[Caramel]

I got a TR909 in the late 80`s for R350 (South African Rands) sold it 3 years ago for R10 000.

[sabo313]

The MPC 60II.

[carlheinz]

In 1985....Linndrum....I still use it

[NoVi]

TR606 >
TR707 >
HR16 >
HR16B >
R8

...and then I went the DAW way...

[voorhee]

Mpc3000

[NaturalBlack]

Originally Posted by Goa-Dubs

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.

My first was an asr-x pro. (I think Im somewhere in the early pages of this thread) Came home one day door kicked open and it was gone. I still would love to have one and probably will again one day. I loved how it sounded and the way the scratch pad handled samples while chopping. I also think starting out sampling with my ears instead of looking at a waveform did me a world of good. I have an mpc1000 and fantom xa now. Fantom sucks for sampling the mpc is ofcourse is an mpc but there are still things I miss about that ASR. Especially the sound

[luupony]

zoom rt 223.
as a drummer replacement. a total surprise.
digging deeper into that machine brought me into electronic music.

[huh?]

My first piece of equipment ever happen to be my first drum machine which was the Dr. Rhythm DR-5 which I bought in early 2006 used

[stevedemena]

Originally Posted by illynoise

Mine was an RX-7, I had to sell it for 150.00 to a pawn shop so I could buy groceries back when I was first starting out. I really miss this machine!

Here is a link:

http://www.sonicstate.com/synth/yamaha_rx7.cfm

What was yours?

New Roland TR-707 when they first came out.

[E-Maddox]

TR-808

[mrfortune]

TR-707, used to take it to school in 9th grade. I don't even remember what happened to it

[ssprod19]

my first real drum machine was the MPC.. Awesome machine.

[perform/record]

Boss Dr. Rhythm
Yamaha RY30

[Tommycash]

Dr. Rhythm...had it for years. But my favorite was the Roland mc 303

[Hide]

Yamaha RX-7.
I bought new one in 1988 or 1989... around it.

[Slik dA Relic]

Dr Rhythm DR 220E... shouldnt have never bought it.. wised up later on and bought the Casio RZ1.

da relic

[TheWiz]

Boss DR-202 > E-Mu MP-7 > MPC-4000

[jrides]

MPC 60 MK1
Still have it.

[coolout]

First drum machine I made a beat on was my neighbor's TR-808 at the age of 14.

At 15 I worked all summer (at $3.35 an hour!) to buy a TR-606.

[Azamat Bagatov]

AKAI XR20

Without efficient and capable MIDI looping/triggering I traded it.

[Ghosted]

From 1987 to today...

TR-707 > HR-16 > R-8 > Procussion > D-4 > R-8-M ... then I sampled all the sounds into a computer running an Emulator X3 and never looked back.

[lemonsquash]

daddy's phono with a cassette deck

[Goa-Dubs]

Originally Posted by Ghosted

From 1987 to today...

TR-707 > HR-16 > R-8 > Procussion > D-4 > R-8-M ... then I sampled all the sounds into a computer running an Emulator X3 and never looked back.

Thats cool but i could never reproduce the drum machine on soft ware.Or hardware......They all have there own personality.

[Ghosted]

Originally Posted by Goa-Dubs

Thats cool but i could never reproduce the drum machine on soft ware.Or hardware......They all have there own personality.

Sure, the R-8 had cool "feel" templates, but you can recreate those in any sequencer if you work at it.