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Mar 05 2008

Free Samples: Lo-Fi Drum Machines, Fisher Price Music Box Record Player

Free, odd soundware keeps on coming — hot on the heels of faux bent instruments and a tape-recorded Roland 606 and 808, here are more sounds to satisfy your need for unusual sounds.

Stephen Haunts was inspired by the cassette-recorded 808, and writes to tell us he’s decided to give something back. He’s uploaded 22 kits from a Korg ElecTribe ER-1, a kit from a Yamaha DD-10 (pictured amusing the awkward fellow at right from the manual), and a Yamaha PSS-80. The Yamahas steal the show: they’re little toy keyboards with a decidedly lo-fi sound. I always admired the Japanese sound designers for their minimalism on these low-end hardware units. You almost don’t need to circuit bend this.

Free Drum Machine Samples by Creature [Haunted House Records]

Stephen, aka Creature, used these samples for his Distant Horizon album featured in Mike Una’s round-up of music from the forums.

Toy drums not to your liking? How about a toy music box instead?

Our friend Tom at Music Thing has repaired and sampled his Fisher Price record player music box, then uploaded the results to the open source soundware site Freesound:

Sampling a Fisher Price Music Box Record Player [Music Thing]

You may remember said Fisher Price kit from the tongue-in-cheek Fisher Price turntable “review” by DJ Tech Tool’s Ean Golden.

What’s great about both these sound collections is they’re actually different enough to give you some real inspiration musically. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I think it’s time to take my handheld recorder around the house and grab some other sounds.

Fisher Price record player, as viewed by gizzypoo. Via Flickr.

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9 Comments

actuel

i love that b&w drawing. i have used it before. there are some other real nice b&w in that same vein for turtable’s etc. i used the headphone drawing for the elektron-users radio.

more importantly, thanks for the samples linker :)

March 5, 2008 @ 11:47 am

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March 5, 2008 @ 3:38 pm

flip

This is really cool. A few samples seem cut off, but that was probably because they were edited out of a linear melody? You know what I’m dying to get my hands on? Optigan samples. It’s like the grownup’s version of this!

March 5, 2008 @ 4:31 pm

Bill Van Loo

Very cool. I have a great set of ER-1 samples on my site as well:

http://www.chromedecay.org/downloads/er1/

Lovingly created & compiled by me & my music partner, J. Schnable.

March 5, 2008 @ 9:17 pm

runagate

Wow, I used to have a music box record player as a child! I couldn’t remember the name of it, though.

Now if only I could find one of the sort of kids’ keytar/stylophone things I had, with numbered, rainbow-colored touch keys and sheet music with the same numbers. I used to hold the speaker up to my mouth to get wah on these things as a tot. I guess I was always addicted to signal processing.

March 5, 2008 @ 9:53 pm

Creature

Runagate, the stylophone has been re-launched. I am thinking of getting one :-) You can get them from here:

http://originalstylophone.com/index.htm

Steve

March 6, 2008 @ 2:04 am

CSW

Thanks for the info, cool stuff !!

Peace,

http://thebobbyexperience.blogspot.com/

March 7, 2008 @ 5:00 pm

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