Thank you for offering these sounds all secluded to the public. There are still good people left in the world willing to share this type of material.. thank you once again
interesting w the duran duran tape speed thing, apparently thats how Tears for Fears did the intro to Mad World. its a slowed down CR-78, I think layered with some marimba sounds, which sounds really nice with the clave sound
Very interesting on Mad World. Yes, I can't imagine how else they changed pitch without any digital means. Changing tape speed seems the most logical explanation.
Well thanks for that Joe Jackson link in the description, I'd never heard that tune, and what a tune it is! Blasting it on repeat for the entire evening now lol
There was a cheap MIDI trigger kit for the TR77 available which I have for mine, just never got around to adding it! Many thanks for the vid upload, love those crusty old sounds :-)
@@AlexBallMusic It was a trigger interface board from Circuitbenders along with a basic MIDI/trigger board. www.circuitbenders.co.uk/forsale/TRig/TRig.html There's been quite a bit of interest in the TR77 it seems!
Very kind of you to take the time for this. It’s a slow process but these sounds really are great. Some are really annoying to make in modular and with proper round robin you’ve done us a proper !
I've since got a KR-55 of my own with MIDI, which is killer. But I sample pretty much every drum machine or drum synth that passes through my studio. Round robins are a must!
Cool Video. How did you manage to build such a great analog studio? What's the secret to acquire all those gear, even if little by little, as they all are to some extend rare or always been valuable from the moment they were on the market to now days. Do you have any advice a method to finance all this equipment? Thanks a lot
Thank you, that was very interesting. There's a real charm to the old rythmn machines. I think that the digital drum machines have their place but you can't deny that the 'oldies' inspired others to follow. 👍
Ah yes, the the Ace Tone FR-8L which is actually the same machine as the Rhythm 77. Kakehashi took it with him when he left to start Roland. Worth £150 - £300. Ignore the jokers selling them for £500+
That sustained cowbell / clave sound is awesome. I fairly breathed a sigh of relief when I heard the word "sample". I was concerned that this was going to go all dark and become a heretical _circuit bending_ video.
@@AlexBallMusic I can see a whole new series: _"join Alex in the workshop this week as he enjoys the thrills of pcb assembly"_ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-INHz0E3hylc.html
The non-B KR-55 - with the same sounds - is all over the first Depeche Mode album. Kick was from Daniel Miller's Arp 2600 though, I do agree that the 55(B) kick is a bit sh... , but the snare is better than the 808 one, imho. :)
Thank you for carefully sampling and sharing samples. Made Battery 3 kits. Nice thing about sampling is that these 'simple' sounds can be easily tuned in comparison with real drum sounds. I.e. the 55B that originally has one tom now has LO-MID-HI in a sampled kit... Although this doesn't work with the Linn9000 sounds that gives different sounds when tuned down because of 8-bit resolution...
OK, one came out when I was 1 year old, the Korg one when I was 11... thanks for making me feel differently young, Alex! :)))))) Give this guy a like and some more! Seriously!
Would you consider making bloopy monsters out of modern analog drum machines which are also known for their ability to produce some bloopy and splashy sounds? It's a target rich environment these days; DSI Tempest, Moog DFAM, Volca Beats, and several Roland clones, among others.
Of course, you're right, I assume for sampling the modern analog drum kits one would wish to do something creative like with compression and eq and so forth. Perhaps to make exaggerated versions of themselves? But yes, you were very wise not to get bogged down in a project such as what I suggest - endless work! 👍
@@SyncdAlien Pendle at Sound Dust has done stuff with modern machines like the DFAM (plus Oberheim Xpander, EMS VCS3 and other beasts). dulcitone1884.virb.com/oddular
Thank you for the free samples. I already have 20 odd drum boxes set up in FL Studio with the FPC vst. 😁. They do have the rythmn tracks on the originals. 😎👍🇨🇦
Dude that's very kind you have made all this hardwork free. I have a Korg 55b and soundmaster stix. U Gota check that thing out. I was wondering why my own samples went as good. I never new about round robin. Do u find that your sampled hits and beats sound as good as the actual unit? Sometimes I think to just use the unit for what it is then other times I think , well if I had that snare I could do some other stuff.
First, thanks for this great free sample pack - I love the quality and time you put into this! Now, while I was looking at a KR-55 owner's manual PDF, I see it states "Percussion instrument sounds: 12 (bass drum, snare drum, hihat 1, hi-hat 2, cymbal, rim-shot, low conga, high conga, claves, tom-tom1, tom-tom2, cow bell), but your sample set appears to have only 1 tom sample (the higher tuned one, I guess), which makes for a total of 11 instruments. Is there one instrument missing? I do find "pattern demo" YT videos where I can hear a "low tom" sample (mostly used in the intros/fill-ins), but maybe it's impossible to isolate it (or there is really only one and the manual is wrong). Yeah, a nitpicky grumpy german over here, sorry 😀. Anyway, a very nice set, and still better than all others I found out there which only have 10 samples or less!
I'd have to check back, I did this video a few years ago with a borrowed unit. Quite possibly couldn't isolate it, yeah. Funnily enough, I since bought a KR-55 (not the 55B) cheap, but that needs restoration as it doesn't even power up. It's due to be fixed and longer term I want to add midi and mods, so I might be able to find the final missing sound!
You are freaking awesome, sir, thank you so much! I honestly can't hear much variation between the 20 samples of each drum, although I use them all the time in my music. Can you explain how exactly each sound differentiates from its counterparts? Is each frequency slightly different every time a drum triggers, or...?
Glad you enjoyed them. As the sounds are created in analogue circuitry every single time, there will be very slight differences in the sound from one to the next, just like with an acoustic instrument. If you load the samples up and look at them up close you'll see it.
Awesome. This is so cool. Thanks a whole bunch, this is the kinda stuff I usualy make for miself and keep locked away in the safe in the basement of the safe lockdown.
Finally got a chance to watch this. Alex, I cannot decide if you are an engineer with the soul of a musician, or a musician with the soul of an engineer. Your profession would suggest the latter, but stuff like this suggests the former. It's like a Zen koan...Oh! And nice song, too. But too short...
My engineering skills reach as far as changing a plug. I'd love to know how to do the electronics side but I know very little there. I know enough about the sampling and Kontakt to be able to do they at least. :)
multi sampling cheap or old analog gear into kontakt is a very clever idea ! How long did it take for the korg (including choping sample and organizing them into kontakt) ?
Did the TR-77 last year so I've forgotten, but the Korg took about two hours. Not crazy. Cubase has splicing tools to sort the samples out quickly. That's a big time saver. It's the round robin stuff that takes the time.
@@AlexBallMusic 2 hours is totally worth it ! kudos for mentioning the micro differences occuring between each sound, I love when analog gear have this behavior, and I don't hear this argument often :)
@@LouisSerieusement Cheers. Yes, I think it pays off with the patches because you can really program whatever you want and it sounds like it came off the hardware. The thing I'm going to try is some pitching automation and stuff like that. That should be fun.
Hi. That's one specific thing you can't do I'm afraid. They can be used contextually within music that's released commercially, but not sold as samples within software or stand alone.
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