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Thursday 20thSeptember. 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 orprose

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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 recordingCubase / Logic etc

Electric Guitars and Amplification Internet

Mixers Digital Synthesis / FM / Additive / Wavetable / Sample based

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Drum Machines

History

A drum machine is an electronic

musical instrumentdesigned toimitate the sound of drums or other

percussion instruments. They are

used in a variety of musical genres,

not just purely electronic music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zoc2jugdvQ

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History

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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zoc2jugdvQ

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First machine forgenerating electronicallycreated rhythms was theRhythmicon(also knownas thePolyrhythmophone)

Made by Lon Thereminin 1930.

Works using a rotatingdisk with light passedthrough gaps in the disktriggering musical tones.

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The first actual drummachine was theChamberlinRhythmate

Built in 1957. It usestape loops ofrecorded real drums.

Same principle as a

Mellotron http://www.youtube.com

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The first proper Drum

Machine was the

Wurlitzer Sideman.

Designed to

accompany Wurlitzer

organs.

Generated sounds for theindividual drums by using

vacumm tubes and sequenced

them via a rotating disk which

triggered the sounds to make

various patternslike Waltz

and Foxtrot.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLgyQG8P

u8s

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Analogue (using transistors)Drum

machines arrived in the 1960s. Again -these were designed to accompanyorgan 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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Analogue drum machines use basic

synthesesis (subtractive) to createsoundslike 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 70s / early 80s saw

programmable drum

machines.

You could create the beat

patterns instead of only

having pre-programmed

patterns.

1980 Roland 808

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Digital Drum

machines

Sample real

drum sounds.

EMU (created theEmulator sampler)

SP1200 digital

drum machine

(1985). Used by a

lot of Hip Hop

producers.

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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. 1970s, 1980s, 1990s

Pick a 4 bar section from each track and show the beat pattern on a grid.

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