Vinyl Drum Machines From Mars - About

Overview

Vinyl Drum Machines - the third release in our vinyl series - is a royalty free pack of 40 drum machines pressed to vinyl, and sampled.  We selected our favorite machines (no samplers here; only machines with factory sounds), from classics to rarities, vintage to modern, and everything in between, and sampling them cleanly, and with processing. Then, we pressed the results to vinyl, transcribing the record cleanly, but also physically damaging the record and sampling the results with a multitude of cartridges, phono stages and turntables. The results: a massive pack of royalty-free, dirty, dusty, punchy and warm vinyl drum machine one-hits, ready for your favorite DAWs and samplers 🥂

Notes:

Stereo balance: these acetate records degrade after multiple plays, and this degradation doesn’t necessarily happen evenly to both left and right channels.  Later in our sampling process, the more heavily degraded samples tend to shift to one channel, and both peak and rms values would start to drift off-center. We’ve re-balanced the samples individually to taste, using peak channel balance, rms channel balance, and by ear.

Clean vs processed: 
	•	In order to maintain a useable sample count and file-naming system, we’ve chosen the most useful version of any sample(s) for a given machine - whether it’s clean, processed, varispeed, degraded vinyl, or some combination thereof, and have named it with a descriptor related to the sound of the sample, rather than the exact process used, which would have compromised the usability of the sample filenames. 
	•	For classic machines like the 808 and 909, we’ve included both clean and processed versions. 
	•	The descriptor “Standard” is used to represent the un-pitched-on-vinyl version of a drum machine sample. 

Drum Machines Sampled:

Ace Tone Rhythm Ace
Boss DR55
Dr Bohm Digital Drums
Dr Bohm Mini Bohm
E-MU Drumulator
Elektron Machinedrum
Elektron Monomachine
Erica Synths Perkons HD-01
Jomox XBase 09
Korg DDD1
Korg KPR-77
Korg Minipops
Korg Minipops JR
Korg Volca Drum
Lindrum
LM1
Modular (multiple eurorack)
MPC Electronics MPC-1
Oberheim DMX
Roland CR-78
Roland Rhythm 700
Roland TR-505
Roland TR-606
Roland TR-626
Roland TR-707
Roland TR-727
Roland TR-808
Roland TR-909
Sakata DPM-48
Sequential TOM
Siel MDP-40
Simmons Digital Clap Trap
Sonic Potions LXR
Teenage Engineering Pocket Operators
Vermona Kick Lancet
Viscount PCM 64
Wendel
Yamaha MR10
Yamaha MR16
Yamaha RX-5

Gear Used: 

Turntables:
Technics SL-1210 MK2
Technics SL-1200 M3D Broadcast
Re-Loop Turntable

Needles: 
Shure White Label
Shure M44-7
Ortofon 2M Red Label
Ortofon Nightclub
V15 Type 4 
Mixers & Phono Preamps: Musical Fidelity V90-LPS
Can Electric Taula 4 MR 
Tape Machines & Console: Otari MTR12 Tape Machine
Otari MX-5050 BIl2 Tape Machine
API 1608 Console 
Outboard Processing:
Overstayer NT-02A Saturator
Overstayer Modular Channel
Summit Audio TPA-200B
API 2500 Compressor
DBX 165A Compressor
API 560 EQ
API 550B EQ
SSL 611DYN Compressor/Expander/Gate
SPL Transient Designer
Ibanez Multi Effects UE400
BOSS SE-70 Special Effects Processor
Eventide H3000 Ultra-Harmonizer

DI:
REDDI
Radial J-DI

Conversion:
Prism Dream AD-2 Analogue to Digital Converter
Lavry Digital to Analogue Converter Apogee Symphony MKII 
Lathe:
Neumann Lathe with SAL74B Cutting Rack, SX-74 Cutter Head, Zuma Computer & Technics Motor

WAV:

	•	(1333) Samples at 24 bit 44.1 kHz 
	•	(25) 16x Hit Kits, and (29) Individual Hits instruments
	•	Kits folders each contain 16 hits. These samples also exist in the Individual Hits folder, but the volume has been fine tuned here so they play well together. 
	•	Normalization and gain changes have been applied to balance the volumes between drum hits - to balance the Hi Hats to the Kick Drum, for instance. Loudest samples are peaking at -0.5dB.

Naming Conventions:

BD 808 Verb Hall Vinyl 01

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BD - Drum Voice

808 - Drum Machine

Verb Hall - Descriptor  (“Standard” has been used to represent the un-pitched-on-vinyl drum machine sounds). 

Vinyl = Product Name

01 - Version within a group of related samples

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Ableton:

This was built with Ableton 9.77, so that it works for Ableton 9 and Ableton 10 users. If you are an Ableton 10 user, you may need to click the small “upgrade” for certain devices if you wish to edit them further. 

	•	(1) Individual Hits Rack session, and (2) Kits sessions

	•	(1) Individual Hits Rack ADG, and (25) Drum Racks ADGs

	•	Macros are as follows:

	Individual Hits:

	⁃	Sample Select: Cycles through each sample, for the selected Drum Voice
	⁃	Tune: Ableton’s pitch transpose, with max values of -48 to +48
	⁃	Decay: A combination of Amp Decay and Amp Release
	⁃	Drive: Controls Drive amount and wet/dry mix of a saturator, with a utility gain reduction
	⁃	Cutoff: Ableton’s filter - set to Low Pass for all hits
	⁃	Reverb: Ableton’s reverb effect amount, with a saturator before the reverb device
	⁃	Reverb Decay: Ableton’s reverb time
	⁃	Volume: Mapped to Ableton’s Simpler/Sampler volume

	Kits:

	⁃	Tune: Ableton’s pitch transpose, with max values of -48 to +48
	⁃	Decay: A combination of Amp Decay and Amp Release
	⁃	Drive: Controls Drive amount and wet/dry mix of a saturator, with a utility gain reduction
	⁃	Cutoff: Ableton’s filter - set to Low Pass for all hits
	⁃	Comp: Ableton’s Compressor - set to a 10:1 ratio, with the macro controlling the wet/dry mix for parallel compression
	⁃	Reverb: Ableton’s reverb effect amount, with a saturator before the reverb device
	⁃	Reverb Decay: Ableton’s reverb time
	⁃	Volume: Mapped to Ableton’s Simpler/Sampler volume

	•	If you have Sampler, you can right click, and convert the simpler to sampler to further edit these presets.

Logic EXS, Kontakt, Reason NN-XT, and SFZ:

	•	Contain (29) Individual Hits presets in 9 categories, and (25) 16x hit Kits presets

Reason Kong, Battery:

	•	Contain (25) 16x hit Kits as presets

Maschine:

	•	Contains (25) 16x hit Kits as presets

FL Studio:

	•	Contains (29) Individual Hits as DWP instruments

	•	Contains all (25) 16x hit Kits as FPC drum presets 

MPC 1000 & 2500:

	•	Contain 16 bit .WAV versions of all (25) 16x hit kits - separated into 7 .PGM drum programs.

MPC Live & MPC X:

   •	Contain 24 bit .WAV versions of all (25) 16x hit kits - separated into 7 .XPM drum programs.

MPC Expansion:

   •	Contains 24 bit .WAV versions of all (25) 16x hit kits - separated into 7 .XPM drum programs. Install with Akai MPC Software.

Support
Contact info@samplesfrommars.com for support