Mid 80's Snare drum ID ???

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Hello all,

I'm looking for this specific snare drum sound.
Any of you know the origins of it? Seems it was a popular sound around 1986/87

Comes in during the verses:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N777tr7RvUo

Some more songs using it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU2GCGBg0kc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38X1GriazCE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9bYEDmYlG0

All other drum sounds in all of these songs seem to be from the Oberheim DMX.

Thank you.

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Could it be an EMU SP12 Factory snare pitched down?
I'm only going from memory of my old SP12 turbo I used to own many many years ago so I may be talking utter boll##ks, but I seem to remember it could make those type of snare sounds.

Cheers,
Steve
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Should be from Oberheim DMX or a Linn Drum.
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Might be a custom Oberheim EPROM snare that they made available.
Have you used Vlinn (virtual Linn drum) by Aly James? It allows for original EPROM data to be read and used. There is also some great software called promenade which is really good for preparing the EPROM data for use by Vlinn. I think he also has original EPROM data for DMX sounds on his site which Vlinn can read.

http://www.electrongate.com/dmxfiles/index.html

http://www.electrongate.com/dmxfiles/eproms.html
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Thanks guys!

I have tried all eproms I can find and I have tried all classic drum machine kits by now lol.
So I guess it is either an eprom that is hard to find, maybe one of the Digidrums 'Rock' eproms? or they burned their own.

The SP-12 snare sounds similar though, as does the famous Led Zep snare. Some Yamaha snares sound similar as well but those machine came along a couple years later.

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Check this freebie: Free 80s Snares http://www.loopsdelacreme.com/blog-free ... 80s-snares
The complete pack: 80s SNARES http://www.loopsdelacreme.com/80s-snares
And a tutorial for creating / processing these snares: http://www.loopsdelacreme.com/studio-ti ... 80s-snares
Might be useful :)

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synthmagic wrote:Might be a custom Oberheim EPROM snare that they made available.
Have you used Vlinn (virtual Linn drum) by Aly James? It allows for original EPROM data to be read and used. There is also some great software called promenade which is really good for preparing the EPROM data for use by Vlinn. I think he also has original EPROM data for DMX sounds on his site which Vlinn can read.

http://www.electrongate.com/dmxfiles/index.html

http://www.electrongate.com/dmxfiles/eproms.html

I went from using DMX Samples to using VLinn to now back to samples, I don't recommend loading DMX sounds in VLinn as after (wasting) 6 months and struggling to recreate reference track drums using VLinn I've realised it kills the classic DMX vibe, strips the punch and tone from them... So despite it being able to load them it won't give you the DMX sound. Aly James partially states this to be fair, the DMX and Linn share some aspects of internals but not exact and it shows.

Stick to samples! :tu: I can only hope he makes or someone else makes a DMX/DX VST using the concept of modelling the internal chain and loading EPROM's.

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