Talk:Drum machine/Archive 1

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)

Can i control the Akai xr20 by a key board
Hi Good day

Please tell me

is it possible to control drum patterns and bass patterns created in Akai xr20 by another key board's Syncro start and fingured mode?

I want to control an Akai xr20 drum machine by Yamaha PSR400 keyboard via MIDI

As a one man player... i want to know whether this is possible?

because i'm about to buy an Akai xr20. I have a PSR400 keyboard.

drum patterns a in Akai xr20 should be controled by Syncro start, Filling in the keyboard and the bass chords should be change accordingly to the chord change on the keyboard?

Please be kind enough to answer this question. Thanks

rgds pdWicky —Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.135.212.93 (talk) 08:25, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Untitled
A drum machine is not the same thing as a drum pad. A drum machine combines a sequencer with a sound generator. A drum pad is an electronic device hit with a drumstick which produces a trigger signal for a sound generator.79.78.20.229 (talk) 22:03, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

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)

Nelson Mandela?
I'm not sure Nelson Mandela invented the drum machine. In fact that's an outright lie. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.50.74.216 (talk) 14:51, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

'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.

> I would say in the case of a drum machine this is simply not the case, they are electronically simulated physical models of real life drum sounds, especially in the case of Roland products were > there was a lot of research into the simulation of drumsets, you can see this clearly in the service manuals - could be a good source for this entry??.--188.28.0.178 (talk) 22:07, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

"Side Man", not "Sideman"
The world's first commercial drum machine has been listed in this article as the "Sideman". But do an image search and anyone can easily see that right on the machine itself was printed the name "Side Man". Two words, both capitalized. Here is a vintage advert from Wurlitzer: http://www.sarahangliss.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/sidemanBillboard16May1960.jpg Quote: "You set the Side Man, vary it, control it completely." "Side Man" is repeated four times after that, and each time it is stated as two separate words. Here is another vintage article which is a short review: http://factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/sideman-ad.jpg "Side Man" is typed out four separate times, and each time it is two separate words, both capitalized. Given this wealth of evidence, I will now fix the article.--Vybr8 (talk) 13:45, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Paia Machine 1975 not 1969
Article states Paia programmable drum machine was 1969, this is incorrect, according to it was 1975. It also predated the 1978 Roland programmable drum machine.


 * Does nobody date their posts around here? or is there so little interest in the topic that the comments are more than a decade old?


 * Anyway: it'd help greatly if everyone could get on the same (so to speak) page about "simple" things like dates. With PAiA — at least type it correctly, eh? — you must be able to see where multiple dates can exist:
 * initial design
 * prototype build
 * production final
 * commercial offering
 * first shipment
 * The fanpage you point at says that production began March 1975.
 * (FWIW, I doubt that in 1969 even a rudimentary sequencer — requiring either many discrete components or extensive use of then-expensive ICs — could have been built into a unit so small and moderately priced, so if the year is at all accurate may refer to Simonton's early design work in fleshing out the concept.) Weeb Dingle (talk) 16:40, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

please edit
This still needs much polishing. For instance:
 * During the 1960s, implementation of rhythm machines were evolved into fully solid-state (transistorized) from early electro-mechanical with vacuum tubes, and also size were reduced

Such awkwardness runs throughout. Weeb Dingle (talk) 07:29, 23 June 2019 (UTC)