From robls@digidesign.comTue Jun 13 13:36:38 1995
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 13:25:52 -0700
From: Rob <robls@digidesign.com>
To: analogue@hyperreal.com
Subject: Drumtrax

Stephane asks:

"Does anyone have an opinion on this analogue drum machine. What type of
MIDI implementation does it have? Can the sounds be triggered from MIDI?
Are the sound worth triggering from MIDI? Can tuning be controlled by MIDI?
Is $150US a reasonable price? Any info appreciated."

The sci Drumtraxs is sample based.  It has seperate eproms for most
instruments so it's easy to swap out the sounds.  There are a few
instruments (like the snare and rim) that share an eprom.  The crash has
four eproms so you can load it up with a very long sound.

All of the sounds are tuneable but not changeable via midi (Well almost).
You can program the tunning per pattern and then send a patch change to the
box to get different tunnings.

The $150 I feel is a bit much but then I feel that most of the prices today
are a bit out of wack.  Offer the person 100 bucks for it.

If you do get the Drumtrax and you want some different sound put in it the
Oberhiem Prommer makes this very easy to do.

It's a cool box.  It sounds good.  It's 8 bit (like all of the beat boxes
of it's time).

-Rob-