Not really. Once you move into digital then patents are enforceable. Analogue circuits don't have the same level of protection. You could only really protect the look and feel of an analogue synth, not the circuits. The Arp/Moog filter case on the Odyssey never went to court, they just respected each other and agreed to stop using the Moog design.
In 1982, I had a full keyboards band driven by the DMX. No sequencer, it was pre-MIDI era. We had even an entire light show synced to its clock output, with a 8K (!!!) ram computer and our own lighting program, cassette memory interface and so on. We were a curiosity at the time.
@@InflatablePlane In fact, as I have not that much to do currently (!), I am about to make a digital transfer of some souvenirs kept on cassettes tapes, all recorded live on a cheap recorder :P I may share some excerpts with you privately, as I will with my former partners of that time. Don't expect great sound, though. Those are 36-38 years old recordings made from the mixing board and vocal compression was not a current thing in the clubs scenes. But you'd get an idea. Also, these are covers, not original stuff.
One drum machine with commutable eproms : Linn Drum, DMX, TR 505, TR 626, HR16. RX..One machine to rule them all ! Great job Patrick for your covers, you seems to be a multi- instrumentiste ! And very intructive and pleasant little documentary !
HKA design actually do a rom expansion kit for the 707 and 727. Adds 808, 909, LinnDrum, LM-1, DMX as well as 707 and 727 for those that don’t have both. Just pick up an old 707 or 727 and away you go. Or get a TR-8S and load old kits in which would be as close as you’d get to an all in one drum machine. Looks like those roms are out of stock but more in Jan.
Not sure what you are suggesting with these videos, if anything apart expressing your love for vintage electronic music equipment, but I love them. Keep them coming please!
It's just to gather how much interest from views to see I they should remake the machine. If they did, the wait will be just as long as the LM they were supposed to make
I hope you guys know how much we appreciate you coming up with these amazing stuff!! Just PLEASE keep the large form factor of all these classics!!! Linn, 78, DMX ..... PLEASE
Great video. When I was 14 I had the time and energy but not enough money to buy the latest synths and drum machines. Now I have more money the time and energy is lacking! Funny old world.
There is russian proverb: "без работы жить не на что, а с работой - некогда", that approximately means: when you don't have a job, you don't have money to live on, but when you have a job, you don't have time to actually live your life.
Well, one thing I can say, I have bought a lot of the Behringer synths... Wasp, Model D, Pro 1, MS1, Odyssey and I am very impressed with the sound and quality, coming from a serious vintage analog synth owner. I also have the RD8 and waiting on the RD9. The true test will be the UBXa. If they pull that off then I have no doubt that the other polysynths that follow will be superb. Hoping they deliver a Linn Drum and if they do I have full confidence that they will get it right. Currently waiting on my back ordered Poly D and CAT.
I trusted the son of my insurance agent to use my Greenville NC studio and he began gradually selling small quantities of gear without my knowledge and I was able to track down a few pieces but my DX midi, DX with custom burned chips and DMX vanished without a trace. What was ironic is he left the sound libraries behind and as the cops watched him struggle with his last box of paperwork on the way out the bottom fell out of the box and all three manuals fell out.
What an awesome video. Some of my very favourite tracks right there, lovingly recreated. DMX is my favourite drum machine ever, I’d buy this in a heartbeat.
Blue monday bassdrum riff was taken from giorgio moroder ' our love' 1979 , the very first british record hit to use the dmx was 1982 ' s buffalo gals produced by trevor horn , also soft cell used it extensively on the art of falling apart
thanks for that...very interesting .. i was reading old interview with stephen morris discussing new order's old equipment and how they would keep 'accidental' programming mistakes and how many songs have been made that way and regarding the staccato blue monday bass drum he said it was an 'accident' , but its clear that its same as the donna summer track ...
@@carlosserrano3985 yes copeland used the dmx , i have a radio interview where he programmes it and commented "if i would drum like this machine i would wear my foot out" lol
@@triumphadelic a programming error created the drum pattern in "Love is a Battlefield" as well… I don't recall if it was an Oberheim or Linn machine though.
Also used by The Sisters of Mercy on First and Last and Always, and also on Floodland. The Sisters were later sampled by a lot of dance and hip hop acts.
That DMX is in mint condition ! .. but then i knew already that the Behringer synth museum restore all the gear that passes through their hands even if that means a total cosmetic overhaul .. love it !!
This probably would have been the world’s THIRD digital drum machine, since the Wendel was first, as heard on Hey, Nineteen, by Steely Dan. It was developed in 1978 and used on the Gaucho record in 1979.
Thanks Joseph, interesting factoid there, but was it a commercially available drum machine? We did say that it was the "2nd commercial digital drum machine to hit the market".
Oh there were sampling drum constructions even before linn , tangerine dream used rythm tracks based on samples stored in magnetic core memory , binary sound stored in magnets and triggered by cv , of course the sample was very short , also there was the mitsubishi built sampling drum of ymo , think it was allready 12 bit in 1980 , but none were commercial products
The Oberheim DMX was really heard in the 1985 Kidsongs versions of the songs "Shortnin Bread", "This Old Man", "Skip to my Lou" and "Take Me Out to the Ball Game".
That was great really well done. The blue Monday and holiday were so well done I hope you do a RU-vid of the complete song deconstruction of them. Thanks.
Maybe they are doing a DMX and Linn Drum in one machine. That poly D sounds incredible. Mine has been on back order since December. Patrick is the master of 80s synthpop music recordings.
@@andregodfrey559 I agree, instead of the RD8 and RD9. Nothing against those, I have the RD8, but not all of us are acid musicians and would like a Linn Drum. It seems like there are a lot of RD808 sounding drum machines everywhere you turn as it is.
Man the Behringer's Poly D synth bass patch on the Evelyn Champagne King, Kashif produced track, "Love Come Down," was so Phat! Gonna' have to pick one up! Thanks Behringer 😎
Dang - I Hope these drum machine videos evolve into actual drum machines from Behringer I can add to my studio - Keep me waiting on a 909-606-Linn-and now DMX Drum Machines
Dopeness, I luv and remember when all those jams dropped. Definitely changed the way music was made afterwards. I like how they avoided any confrontation with copyrights by making recomps for the most popular tracks presented here. 👍🏾✌🏾
Love the faulty line break in the Elton John song title on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart (3:36). I wonder what Pink Houses by Van Halen and Jump by Ray Parker Jr. sounded like.
Wow...a little musical trip through my early teens. I knew of the DMX from Hip Hop but had no idea it had been used on so many other tracks. Wicked video, keep 'em coming!
I believe the first drum machine used on Blue Monday was the Mattel. You can see it on an video. A very entertaining magazine of the day was called electronic music maker had several articles talking about being used. After it became the biggest selling independent label 12 inch of all time and they started getting some royalties they got more and better equipment
It can be cloned in software. Aly James Lab VPROM vst plugin can do this really well. It's for Linn LM-1, but can accept EPROM files for DMX and even E-mu Drumulator.
Thats the guy with the ad in 80s magazines " a studio without a synclavier , i dont record there" , i found that the ultimate in snobbery at the time and certainly with his background
I quite enjoyed this how about history videos on all the past things you've cloned Behringer. I would definately watch them it's more informative than a modern day TV programme lol.
The DMX Drum Machine came out after the Lynn drum machine. IIRC the Lynn drum was $5000.00. The Oberheim DMX was priced at $3000.00. The major advantage of either machine was that the ROMs had digital recordings of REAL DRUMS. Unlike the other drum machines back in the dark ages, there was on board programmable memory so I could record drums for each song I played and save them. The draw back was they had a cassette backup that could be hit or miss. It was reliable, but it didn't always load the complete songs onto the machine. However, I sounded like a BAND when I played my songs. Keyboards, Moog Taurus bass pedals, and the DMX. Awesome.
Nice perspective trick with the Pro-1 / Keystep combo.. How long did it take to figure out how high you needed the module to make them look the same width? ;-)
Makes sense. Most of the originals they cloned so far are more widely known and appreciated already. This is smart marketing to remind consumers of the relevance and cool factor of the DMX.
@@mechuniversal I would imagine it could be done with much smaller components as technology has advanced a lot since then. They've done a great job at remaking some classic pieces of gear, so I'm sure they'll give this the right treatment as well. And I can't wait till they do!
