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Thursday 20th September. Periods 3 + 4.Music Technology A2
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Drum Machines..What do you know?
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A2 exam written question revision
‘The development of music technology’
•Must answer 1 question (choice of 2)•16 marks available (8% of A2)•Include 16 different points•Organise ideas in date order.•After planning, answer can be bullet points or prose
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A2 exam written question revision
‘The development of music technology’Topics:
•Synthesisers•Samplers & Drum machines•Audio effects and audio processing - EQ•MIDI•Recording media (tape / digital etc). Consumer media (Vinyl & MP3 etc)•Multi-track recording (Digital and Analogue)•Computer based recording – Cubase / Logic etc•Electric Guitars and Amplification Internet•Mixers•Digital Synthesis / FM / Additive / Wavetable / Sample based
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Drum MachinesHistory…
• ‘A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument designed to imitate the sound of drums or other percussion instruments. They are used in a variety of musical genres, not just purely electronic music.’
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Drum MachinesHistory…
• A Drum machine is basically 2 things:
• 1: A Sequencer that triggers…
• 2: Electronically created (analogue or digital) Drum sounds to make a beat pattern.
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Drum Machines
• First machine for generating electronically created rhythms was the Rhythmicon (also known as the Polyrhythmophone)
• Made by Léon Theremin in 1930.
• Works using a rotating disk with light passed through gaps in the disk triggering musical tones.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkodVcuPVAo
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Drum Machines
• The first actual ‘drum machine’ was the Chamberlin Rhythmate
• Built in 1957. It uses tape loops of recorded ‘real drums’.
• Same principle as a Mellotron
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmAbtzMChHk
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Drum Machines• The first proper Drum
Machine was the Wurlitzer Sideman. Designed to accompany Wurlitzer organs.
Generated sounds for the individual drums by using vacumm tubes and sequenced them via a rotating disk which triggered the sounds to make various patterns – like Waltz and Foxtrot.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLgyQG8Pu8s
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Drum Machines• Analogue (using transistors)Drum
machines arrived in the 1960s. Again - these were designed to accompany organ players.
• 1967 FR-1 Rhythm Ace.
• Precursor to the Roland analogue drum machines like the 808.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glNmc7ohmCg
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Drum Machines
• Analogue drum machines use basic synthesesis (subtractive) to create sounds – like using white noise for a snare / hat and sin wave for a bass drum.
• These did not sound like real drums! But that gave them a unique sound – this would influence electronic dance music heavily.
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Drum Machines• Late 70’s / early 80’s saw
‘programmable’ drum machines.
• You could create the beat patterns instead of only having pre-programmed patterns.
• 1980 Roland 808
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Drum Machines• Digital Drum
machines
• ‘Sample’ real drum sounds.
• EMU (created the Emulator sampler)
• SP1200 digital drum machine (1985). Used by a lot of Hip Hop producers.
• http://youtu.be/Ri-9Lez3M6Q
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Drum Machines• Practical task.
• Using the SR 202 virtual sampling Drum Machine in Cubase.
• Record your own drum sounds / stabs. Must include at least:
• Bass Drum• Snare Drum• Closed hat
• Musical ‘stab’ short chord (guitar / piano etc) sample. 2 stabs of different chords that go together is a good idea.
• MUST BE 16BIT MONO WAVS
• Then make a beat pattern in Cubase just using the SR 202 and your own sounds. 8 bars min.
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Drum Machines• Homework
• Find an example of a track from each of these decades that the use of a drum machine features heavily.
• 1970’s, 1980’s, 1990’s
• Pick a 4 bar section from each track and show the beat pattern on a grid.
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Drum Machines
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Drum Machines