Drum Machine History | Podcast
The drum machine has progressed massively since the days of the home organ player. Here Oli Freke takes us through a brief history, with lots of audio examples.
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The drum machine has progressed massively since the days of the home organ player. Here Oli Freke takes us through a brief history, with lots of audio examples.
Paul White takes us through the history and evolution of guitar synths, from early attempts at creating onboard sounds and audio-to-MIDI pickups, through to using pedals and plug-ins to emulate synth effects.
When I’m recording an old Roland Juno 106 synth and I connect it to a UA Apollo soundcard, it sounds fine. However, I’ve also tried running it into some other preamps and got some strange results...
SOS's Paul White has been fascinated by guitar synthesizers ever since he first encountered one and has owned or tested most models over the decades. Here's his story...
I have a Roland Quad Capture [audio interface], which I’m very happy with. I would like to use the digital inputs in addition to the two analogue inputs. How can I achieve this?
If you have two bits of gear that you'd like to run into your computer interface via S/PDIF, do you need two S/PDIF inputs?
Can you help me understand the effects routing on my Roland VS2400CD and how to 'print' an effect to a track?
I want to replace our band's two Roland MC50 sequencers with the MC80. Although the MC80 only holds one song at a time in memory, it can play back multiple songs directly from the disk drive, but I was wondering if there was a significant pause time between songs when playing directly from disk?
Is there a way of using an external hardware compressor with a Roland VS1880 multitracker for mix compression?
I'm considering buying a second-hand Roland D-series workstation to get those classic D50-type sounds. I recently borrowed an old D-series synth from a friend and was using it in multitimbral mode, hooked up to my computer sequencer, but I experienced some problems with the sounds, so I'd like to get your advice before I shell out any cash.
I'm having trouble getting my Roland JV1080 to work well with Emagic Logic Audio. When I change MIDI channel in Logic the sound disappears, or I can't get the sounds that I want to stay put. How can I get Logic and the JV to synchronise?
Some users of the Roland VS2480 discovered that their unit's inputs suffered from significant harmonic distortion for signals above -6dBFS...