Rhythm 10 Sample Pack

Farfisa Rhythm 10 is an analogue drum machine made in Italy in 1969. It has been used, among others, by Kraftwerk in Kling Klang and Tanzmusik. This lovely piece of hardware featured 10 patterns, variable tempo, and 5 pads (actually buttons) to let the musician play custom grooves and variations.

The device has been sampled in 2 separate recording campaigns: one at a sampling frequency of 44100 Hz and one at 192000 Hz, both at 24-bits, both by feeding the signal directly into the line input of the audio interface, without additional amplification. The first campaign is meant to produce samples usable by most digital hardware drum machines, while the second is meant to produce files for software samplers.

Pattern recordings have been examined in order to produce a MIDI version of them (also velocity has been curated).

The results of the sampling campaigns have been packed in different ways, all available on the download page.