Ah, fair points. Certainly the circuitry in the Linn Drum gave it such distinctive sounds at extremes, such as the aforementioned Prince rim-shot, though I don't know if that was the D-As or whatever.JJ_Jettflow wrote: ↑Sat Nov 16, 2019 12:26 pmI believe that Linn Drum and other drum machines from that time are considered analogue for the fact that while the sound sources were digital samples, the rest of the machine was made of analogue circuitry.noiseboyuk wrote: ↑Sat Nov 16, 2019 8:00 am
Incidentally, this categorisation of "analogue drum kit" is a bit bizarre. Again, the Linn Drum was famously based on samples so that makes it Digital in my book, so was the 707 & 727 (the poor mans' Linn). More fundamentally, the term "analogue drum kit" sounds to me like, well, a drum kit. You know, the physical drums on stands and everything. Anyway, the way NI use it here seems to mean "early era electronic drum kits", so that's your broad starting point.
A real drum kit would be considered "acoustic" rather than "analogue" since the terms analogue and digital refer to electronic design. A musical instrument can be thought of as acoustic, electric or electronic.
People were so excited by sampled drums at the time ("fire your drummer!"). It took years to realise that drum machines weren't drummer replacements but their own thing.
I just looked up the R5 and R8, made in 1989 apparently. It looks like there were a bit of a compendium of other machines? To me the most important Roland ones from the 80s are there - 808, 909, 727, 707, 606, though the cheapie DR-55 is MIA.
