Drum Computers - Studio Time: S2E2 

Make sure you watch this and all tutorials with headphones or good speakers to get the most out of the sounds!

I think the best thing about these videos is that JunkieXL always seems so happy to share and talk about these machines. With such a large collection, it's a real treat to see and learn about many of these machines.

Just a minor correction - it was the CR78 that was used in In the Air Tonight.

Thank you for sacrificing your 727 for our viewing pleasure, R.I.P

"sometimes, after 5 times using it, the drum computer is dead because you did something wrong. But in THIS case, this is done by a pro! Watch this!" DEAD

This studio is the only reason why having money actually matter

28:58 This is a really great sounding Drum Compugrreeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhh ! Hahahaha you're a Legend

Awesome video. Nothing beats the sound of the good ol' SP12000.

Honestly, I cannot for the life of me understand why people would dislike this video or why only 5 % like it out of the total that watched this. This is so generous and rare for a musician and composer to show us all these tricks and facts within a practice for free and even without commercialised cut-points. Tom, I would love to meet you someday or at least see you do a liveshow on one of these drum computers and synthesisers that you have been showing us. Hands down one of my favourite tutorial series.

what a great person you are! even knowing the fact, that your drum machine can die, you still showing us this feature! you're the man!

Thanks Junkie XL for this video :)

Disclaimer : No Drum Computers were harmed in the making of this video... . . . . . . oh wait.

Just found your channel. I’m 45yo into rock but love synths and drum programming and have a home studio. I’m fascinated by your videos. Honestly I had to research and take a listen to your work. Amazing.

Thank you very much. It's a real pleasure to watch all your equipment and to learn how you use it on your work.

These are a real treat. What a collection.

Thank you for these videos and your time, Sir!. You are passing on a great torch and I just want you to know that we appreciate you.

that was fantastic trip down memory lane for me, owned a yamaha DX7, roland TR-505, TR-909 and a R8mk2 with expansion cards.

Ahhh, the 909.....tears in my eyes..... am here due to having a moment in the past listening to JXL vs Elvis, a massive tune at an awesome moment in my life when I was living in Thailand/Barcelona. Thank you JXL for an awesome tune.....

Wow! Great watch. Such awesome drum machines.

Thanks Tom - That brought me right back!

The interesting part for me was explaining how you use 909 with individual outs, fx and so on, and then sample it in the SP. Explaining the tricks on how you use them is great. 10x

Thanks for making this videos. You are a legend, I hope your drum machine survive in the end.

I dig how you are posting this content in seasons! 😊

Excellent video of vintage 80's drum machines. I am hooked on your channel. The Alesis HR-16B had ability to individually pitch shift its samples too. Being 16-bit, it was cleaner. It was all I could afford in late 1989.

Great overview of the history of drum machines!

Perfect timing. Been on such an 80's kick lately and I really loved watching this! Love these vids Tom!

"only one drum computer died" :-)) so good, love this channel. you are a true inspiration

seeing all these iconic drum computers in action and hearing them in the raw is so fkin cool. your show is crazy, and that studio of yours? sheesh. i have learned a lot and have even began to invest in a modular synth setup.thanks for sharing your knowledge and collection with us.

Thank you for your knowledge and wisdom on music and the tools to make it. My goal is to make film scores and cues. Your channel is one of the best. Thank you 🙏🏽 and be blessed.

Good god...the kick on the DX ❤️

Fun drive down memory lane! I still have many demos with those sounds. Life is so much easier now. The LINN 9000 Was the classic. I still have Linn sheets for patterns on tracks I did. Before that we had to.... use live players. I still remember life before MIDI :)

Beautiful, your drum machines are so mint!! Thanks for the video, I like these walk through in drum machines collection.

Ridums Lol Love you Tom. Thanks for these videos, real cool. Bring back the sound of old school JunkieXL albums please!!!

Wooooooooo weeeeeeeeee love your studio!!

always love tuning into your vids Tom...i'm not a music composer but love all the techie stuff! thanks again

Thank you so much for doing those tutos, much much love !

Nice video! Thanks RIP Ikutaro Kakehashi

Great Video !! I love all those 80's machines

This was really interesting! Thank you Tom for you time and passion that you put on this series, very much appreciated! You totally deserve your success and I think this is a amazing way to "share" your success with us, letting us be a real part of your studio. Thank you very much for this opportunity.

Thanks so much for your videos. Really love your passion and enthusiasm with your toys!

Thanks for sharing Tom!

AMAZING VIDEO!!! Thank you so much Mate! What for great instruments collection, just like an heaven for any musician.

Thanks so much to you and your team, I've learned a lot, 10 years ago, I bought an Akai miniyak, and I played it sometimes but became very sad to hear the simple sounds and it's hard to program, but There is software for it so it's a bit easier, it has three oscilators and eight polyphony and a lot of filters, vorcoder and more. Now I gradually know how a synth works and how to get more sound.

Haha, that 909 rhythm is SUCH a Dutch techno rhythm! ;)

Cheers Tom; interesting...the EMU brought back memories :D

That's where I know you from! Weekend at Waikiki! Saw that band back in the eighties in Trebol Harlingen!. Great collection by the way.

so sorry to see that the tr- 727 was broken :-((( Hope you could get it repaired... Thank you to show all the gear and taking the time to explain everything.

I love this Video!!! Incredible machines. The Sp1200 still my all time favourite

One of my favorite drumcomputers is the R8. It has a live rec etc. it's big by sice and functions with individual outputs.

your videos are very inspirational. thank you.

This was another awesome video from you man! 💚 thank you so much 🙏

really an in depth review session.. i dig it..

Superb video - SP1200 all day long.

Great stuff Sir, I used to own the Drumulator:):):):), thank you for educating me on this wonderful equipment!!!!! Bill Owen

Amazing! Thanks for sharing!

"This thing can go in the bin." Classic 🤣🤣🤣 i love junkie xl

This video is like a Time Machine. Fckng awesome !

Awesome! The great thing in HW boxes is that they make You commit!

Great vid and tutorial, really needed this one, thanks again!

Awesome! Thank you for the knowledge

I wanna take time out to thank you for doing these videos. They make me wanna do music. i have a question about Ipad music programs. Do you use them? DM-1 for instance. drum machine or synths?

3:30, sorry it was a CR 78 on Phil Collins, not an 808

Great video - thanks, Tom!

Hi.... Just listening to the detuned hand clap on the DX drum machine.This is a sound used hugely by Gary Numan although i believe he used a Linn LM1 at the time.Listen to Night Talk off of his 1981 album Dance.Again the same sound used right across his 1982 album i assassin....All the best ;-)

I have always been drawn naturally to the tr-909 as a child in the 80s and dance music in the 90s, going to my first nightclub in 1997 at 15 years old clubbing 10am in trade turnmills, i always been naturally drawn to the sound of the 909 i still am, i love it ,best sound for me :-)

To me the tr and tb (and linndrums to)are so awsome because of their groovequantisation .The feel of these machines groovin is still special to day.It's also the succes of akai's mpc series who hat the linn quantize build in. Thx for the good soundquality of your review Tom .( it became time..)Now we all can start sampling! lol Fun to see your fatening up your sounds in the sp 1200. What you basicly do is turning them into 8 bits sounds witch sounds so fat. It's also the reason why a akai s-950 sounds so awsome. Greetz from the Netherlands to all gearheads

Yes! The RX7 is fairly cheap :) JunkieXL, I have to say that your studio/gear collection is amazing!

All of the machines were and will be always beasts-legends!!! With lots of History!!!

I LOOOOVE your videos! the only issue is that the camera is always so far away from the devices, I have to google an image and try to compare it, so I can see the detail of the controls.

I like how you kept your cool when the TR727 packed in. I would have been cursing and swearing. I did have a little chuckle tho. Great workshop. Cheers :)

Massive thanks for this video. 🎹🎛👍👍😊

Tom, I have the .BIN files if you'd like that rock kit for the Drumulator and have the ability to burn your own EEPROMs

AWESOME!!!!! Did I see a HAMMOND AV-64 drum box in your space, at some point? (Early 1970s "organ" companion drum machine?) If so, would LOVE to hear/see how you use that (in the future, if you do another round of "drum box" madness)! I have one as well--it's a blast! The information you share is SO VITAL, it is beyond words! THANK YOU x 1,000,000!!! (Sorry about that TR-727--sacrifice!!)

erg toffe video! leuk om de RX7 voorbij te zien komen, niet veel mensen gebruiken dit ding. ik heb de RX7 al 25 jaar dus 'm dromen dus ik graag wat komen uitleggen ;) de RX7 is 12 bits en de edit functies zijn te gek; zo kun bijvoorbeeld akkoorden maken met de synthgeluiden!

Great video! I was wondering if you could do more on Drum Programming within a DAW?

Man, I love old drum machines. My all time fave is the RX5. Much like the RX7, it's just so deeeeeep and sounds great for industrial stuff.

Love that DX sound

Ouch, did you manage to bring the 727 back to life afterwards?

HOLY CRIME MONEY! How does a person come into such a wide array of modular gear? That can't all belong to just one owner!? Don't you feel subdued by having such a huge palette to choose from, I mean, wouldn't you feel like those big boxes are playing you, instead of the other way around? I've been soldering some eurorack kits a little over one year now, feeling quite insignificant, and sad because I'll die before I ever feel like I got adequate usage from it! I guess it's a matter of balancing all aspects, like watching your diet, balancing the fun with the discipline! Thanks for showing off some legendary boxes!

I love drum machines. My 707 is bent and 727 is not. The bent work was done by Diabolical Devices and has worked great for years. It occasionally acts up when bent modes are enabled, but works 100% with bent switched off. Circuit bent drum machines are great for creating strange machine-like sequences and then sampling it for processing. I had another non-bent 707 that I recently repaired PSU input but sold to my friend.

Junkie is the best !!!!

Anyone have any idea where to get that clear shelf he has the drum machines on? I have been looking for something like that for my studio for a while now

@junkiexlofficial thanks for sharing! I've learned a lot from your vids. Not to nit pick but the Phil Collins track used the CR-78, not the 808.

too funny...soon as I noticed the switches on the 727, I was all excited that you would talk about circuit bending! Amazing, unique sound possibilities...then fzzzzzz... ha! Very true that you take your chances but 99 times out of 100 it is very fixable....Lets just tuck that secret back in our pocket, shall we? ;) Thanks so much for the videos - I'm always learning a little something new!

Id love to see a demo of your 909 out to CV on the modular. Amp at 200% SYNC!

Helemaal top, en het leuke is de heerlijke nuchterheid met mis gaan en dan gewoon in de video laten. Ik ben overigens wel benieuwd of de 727 FUBAr was of nog te repareren.

Circuit bending: 24:22 in this case this is done by a pro... 25:37 did it die? 25:56 I guess.. This thing can go in the bin

I would love to see a video on your eurorack!

Hahah Junkie head boppin with his lil prep song

Dude that chorused bass on the Yamaha is straight out of Manhunter by Front 242!!

You should have done at the end a song with all the drums in midi/gate :D

Love it! Thanks for sharing your drum machines with us Tom. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that Prince's favorite drum Machine was the LinnDrum, not the Oberhiem DX?

Does anyone have groovetemplates (in general midiformat) of akai's mpc series and \or Rolands tr 909.I had them in mac format wich is of no use no more since my daw is based on windows 7 now.Thx.

impressive background!!!!

hey what about doin a video of your fav drum plugins!

You are making me pine away for my long lost Oberheim DX and Roland TR707. They live on in Arturia Spark, of course, but there is something special about having the box right in front of you. Did you ever have any of the alternate EPROM sets for the DX? I used to have a Simmons set that sounded tremendous.

Your videos are awesome, please make more of these! I am especially interested in syncing via MIDI clock. Have you encountered any issues with components drifting out of sync when you are synchronizing drum machines with your modular wall?

The best circuit bent drum machine I ever owned was an Alesis HR-16. Unfortunately it too died and I haven't had the fun money laying around to buy and mod another one.

Cool!

Hey Tom, did you get the glass surfaces you use for your main workstation area pre-made .. or did you have them custom made? I'm in the Los Angeles area and would like to build a similar workstation to yours for my 88 key controller, monitors, touch screens, and keyboard/trackball. Thanks man (p.s. it was amusing seeing all these old drum boxes .. I gave all mine away back in the day dohh 🙄)