Comments on: NAMM: Details of Upcoming Dave Smith + Roger Linn Drum Machine

By: moose

moose — Wed, 02 May 2007 06:05:14 +0000

hey, thats my picture… AND credit as well!! cool! };-)

By: me

me — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:38:14 +0000

According to Roger Linn there are plans for this machine to also feature variable bit depth sampling.

By: Create Digital Music » Dave Smith BoomChik Official Details: Drum Machine, not MPC

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 14:19:34 +0000

[...] Dave Smith Instruments originally planned only to tease their upcoming drum machine exclusively in a banner at the NAMM show: no word outside the insider trade show. Not in the Internet age: word of a new product from synth legend Dave Smith and drum machine/MPC legend quickly had blogs and forums abuzz. [...]

By: bliss

bliss — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:05:02 +0000

Heck yeah! That looks awesome. I’m droolin’… Not on the looks but the idea. Besides you know those guys aren’t going to release some un-intuitive jive. Based on their past performance you just gotta know that once the machine is delivered they will deliver.

By: Vlad Spears

Vlad Spears — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:10:51 +0000

I love the feel of Linn drum machines and have been in the market for a tricked-out Linn 9000 for a few years. Since I would generally be loading samples of my own synthesized percussion into a 9000, the BoomChik would be much more immediate synthetic fun, and without the floppy drive, too!

The Hebrew in me keeps mistaking the “Chik” as a diminutive form, though, as in “cute little Boom”.

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 02:04:41 +0000

No, I agree that the current mock-up isn’t exactly integrated in design. But I do like that you have all this hardware control over synth parameters. If you look at the Dave Smith blog, you can see how other devices have evolved over time. I think this is a very early mock-up; Dave Smith Instruments hasn’t even officially released it. It was just there for the banner. I’m glad they teased us with it, though, just because I like the idea.

By: NickD

NickD — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 01:27:08 +0000

The blue stripies seem to be a riff on the old Oberheim cosmetics on OB8, Matrix 6, and Expander era blue on black design.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 01:05:58 +0000

The one hope I have for future design changes is that the isolation of the Roger and Dave sides of the machine are only there as a mock-up gimmick and that the final design has everything better integrated into a seamless whole. I think it’s a fun idea they’ve come up with, but as gear, it looks awfully silly as is.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:24:33 +0000

Adrenalinn! You forgot the Adrenalinn from Roger Linn Design. I have version II and it’s totally brilliant! I sold the two PODs I had and never looked back. Simple, elegant, and self-documenting (all the opertion details are printed on the front).