Talk:Drum machine

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Perhaps Wolfgang Flur of Kraftwerk be mentioned on here somewhere? I thought he had invented the programmable or MIDI controlled drum machine, but I can't find much solid evidence to back this up.


That could quite possibly be because he didn't. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.138.235.243 (talk) 16:39, 9 January 2008 (UTC)


Nice though it is, the photo doesn't give much of an idea of what a drum machine looks like. Can someone take a more suitable one? --Malcohol 18:26, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I'll take a picture of my ER-1 and put it up here when I get back home. Oh, Merry Christmas! Samboy 11:20, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] 'imitate'

Actually one of the fathers of synthesizers has made a good point saying that synthesizers (including drum synths) don't imitate, but create sounds. As for samplers and similar devices, they actually reproduce the actual sounds and not imitate them. The people who first used drum synths, used them not to replace existing drum sounds but create drum sounds you couldnt create with real drumsets.

[edit] drum machine = drum synth + sequencer =

seems to me the set of topics that need to be combined or linked are.. (probably not in the right order)

 electronic music
   sound synthesis
     drum sound synthesis
     sequencers
     drum machines (which is essentially a drum synth plus a sequencer)
     rhythm programming

Also, lets not forgot that you can "play" midi-equipped drum machines using a keyboard (or even a windsynth!) as well as drum pads. In that sence the "drum machine" is being a "drum-synth" by not using the sequencer part. Boxes such as the Alesis D4 are "drum machines" *without* a built-in sequencer.

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Well done to all the people who wrote all this i found it extremely helpful for my music project. Well Done. By the way i dont think people, like me, should be able to change the web page so easily! (I didnt change anything) i just added this. Well done anyway

[edit] Articles on popular Drum Machines

I just created a new article for the Alesis SR-16 and added it to the category Category:Drum machines. For consistency's sake, other highly popular drum machines should probably have their own articles too. To preemp an AFD, I would say that if the Sony Walkman and iPod get their own articles as popular products, I think popular drum machines are encyclopedic as well. MPS 17:04, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Paia Machine 1975 not 1969

Article states Paia programmable drum machine was 1969, this is incorrect, according to [1] it was 1975. It also predated the 1978 Roland programmable drum machine.