Free Korg Rhythm 55 samples

[synthmagic]

Here are a collection of loops from a vintage Korg drum machine. This was a ebay buy, sold to me as 'working great, honest' and has been through the wars, and is quite noisy and temperamental, so not the cleanest samples(it needs a service).
Most of the loops are here, but some of the buttons do not activate the beats, so those patterns could not be played and sampled. I wanted to sample the intro/fills, but it goes haywire if intro/fill button is pressed.



Disco 1 (speeded up) reminds me of Joe Jackson- Steppin' out
They are all in .Wav format so you can load them into your sampler of choice and slice them etc.
I read somewhere Depeche Mode used this machine on some early tracks.
There are actually Kontakt versions of the 55 and 55b from Forgotten Keys, which are great.

I just always wanted to own the real machine, but it seems it is not in the best of health.
Anyways, hope you can use the samples.

Download using Mediafire.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/nor2x ... THM_55.zip

Cheerio

[stroker_ace]

Nice!

Thanks for these.

[AnX]

Depeche Mode didnt use that, they used this

http://www.vintagesynth.com/roland/dr55.php

[PTV]

These are great! Thank you.

IIRC Cabaret Voltaire also used that on their Red Mecca album.

[Aloysius]

[synthmagic]

Thanks all

Depeche Mode didnt use that, they used this

http://www.vintagesynth.com/roland/dr55.php

Yes they did use the DR55.


I read they used Korg 55 on these pages.

http://djjondent.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01 ... chine.html

'The Korg Rhythm 55 was used by Jean-Michel Jarre (Magnetic Fields) and Depeche Mode in 1981 (Speak and Spell) & Cabaret Voltaire.'

http://alienatedsynthesist.blogspot.co. ... n-mod.html

'Mute Records guvnor Daniel Miller made great use of it's trigger output, driving his ARP sequencer and of course the excellent snare drum can be heard throughout Depeche Modes Speak & Spell album.'