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colltral_dmge · Post by **colltral_dmge** » Tue Jan 17, 2023 1:29 pm

Can anyone recognize what type of drum machine is used here:

Sounds very familiar, quite popular for 80s synthwave , old school ebm, post-punk.

DSmolken · Post by **DSmolken** » Tue Jan 17, 2023 8:46 pm

LinnDrum or some other Linn, with heavy compression and reverb?

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Tue Jan 17, 2023 9:25 pm

It start with those hexagonal Simmons pads
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simmons ... m_company)
No track of the eighties was complete without them.

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Fri Jan 20, 2023 2:19 am

You may find this plugin useful: https://www.genuinesoundware.com/?a=showproduct&b=61

I have it on my iPad and currently have the desktop version installed as a demo. It's very nice and well thought out. However, it doesn't seem to allow for "per channel" mult-out into a DAW, so you'd have to load up several instances to be able to treat your snare with your own choice of reverb and so forth. I think it's probably better than samples, though—with the concession that a lot can be done using something like this as its own drum bus and then perhaps layering a snare with the reverb you want over this one. Plenty of tweaking available in the plugin and I'll probably buy it for desktop, too.

Edit: they cymbals are very nice in this one, too.

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Fri Jan 20, 2023 2:33 am

Also:

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Fri Jan 20, 2023 2:55 am

A little poking around also revealed this one: https://oblivionsoundlab.com/product/hex-drum/

Absolutely no affiliation. I'm shopping for these sounds, too, and am just sharing what I find.

It seems if you sign up for their mailing list, you get a 15% discount code. As their Linn emulation does provide multi-out, it's tempting. Also, some nice free patches for DIVA there and other synths. Definitely a synthwave friendly company from the looks of it.

Mr Arkadin · Post by **Mr Arkadin** » Fri Jan 20, 2023 10:58 am

For Simmons I go Aly James Lab:
https://www.alyjameslab.com/alyjameslabvsdsx.html

For Linn I prefer the LM-1:
https://www.alyjameslab.com/alyjameslabvlinn.html

Worthy mention:
https://www.alyjameslab.com/alyjameslabclaptrap.html

MTorn · Post by **MTorn** » Sat Jan 21, 2023 4:16 pm

I'm guessing that this isn't really a drum machine at all, but simply some basic samples played back, old school-style.
Must of us have folders upon folders of drum samples, and I think they just grabbed a few they liked.

I can hear:
Kick - some kind of crunchy layer of dry kicks.
Snare - a big mono reverb, might have started life as a drum machine snare with FX, or perhaps a sample from a record.
Hihat - nothing unusual
Toms - YES, these are Simmons analog-style toms, but I think they're really just basic samples, not actually anything analog, or virtual analog.
Hi Q - that snappy analog filter resonance sweep. 16-bit Roland drum machines would occasionally have one of these samples.

And that's about it. The sound has somewhat the feel of a vintage hardware sampler, but I have no way of telling. There is no need to use one if the raw samples sound good to you already.

I'm personally a fan of the Aly James plugins mentioned above, but you've got to be REALLY geeky about old school machines to enjoy them.

Help recognize drums, it’s sounds very familiar, quite popular for 80s synthwave, oldschool ebm, post-punk