PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE DRUM SOUNDS

[MAICO MALNERO]

hi there !!! im using arturia's emulator 2 but i cant find the drum sounds used in depeche mode's people are people song , i always thought they came from the 1984 emulator 2 !!! then i saw some videos on you tube wich made me think the sounds were from an emax !!! but the emax came out in late 1986 and the song if from 1984 !!! so ... were did those drum sounds come from !!!

[RugerioDelStereo]

Here's an article that details the recording of the song: https://www.soundonsound.com/people/cla ... are-people

At the time the band was heavily influenced by the industrial scene and made a lot of drum sounds themselves. Apparantly this song used the Synclavier and the Drumulator to sample sounds. Most of those came from various field recordings.

[dark water]

^^ excellent find

There is also this interview with Dave Gahan about creating the drum sounds for the song by recording kitchen utensils etc:

https://ew.com/music/2017/03/23/depeche ... interview/

As per the above SOS article, the band owned / had access to a Synclavier, Drumulator, Emulator 1 and Emulator 2 samplers by 1984, so some combination of these would have been used to get the original drum sound recordings ready for sampling / playback.

[MAICO MALNERO]

Here's an article that details the recording of the song: https://www.soundonsound.com/people/cla ... are-people

At the time the band was heavily influenced by the industrial scene and made a lot of drum sounds themselves. Apparantly this song used the Synclavier and the Drumulator to sample sounds. Most of those came from various field recordings.

well i guess i'ñll have to sample them from the song !!!

[WatchTheGuitar]

Here's an article that details the recording of the song: https://www.soundonsound.com/people/cla ... are-people

At the time the band was heavily influenced by the industrial scene and made a lot of drum sounds themselves. Apparantly this song used the Synclavier and the Drumulator to sample sounds. Most of those came from various field recordings.

Yes, there's a bit of video I've seen where they were chucking things around the studio to record the sound for subsequent sampling as part of getting the sounds together for Construction Time Again. Things like bouncing marbles so they can slow the sound down.

[tapper mike]

I'm not a people drum sound to be beat on. I'm a people