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Drum machine

A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument that creates percussion sounds, drum beats, and patterns. Drum machines may imitate drum kits or other percussion instruments, or produce unique sounds, such as synthesized electronic tones. A drum machine often has pre-programmed beats and patterns for popular genres and styles, such as pop music, rock…

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related to Early preset drum machine users · 37
Drum machine → America's, Another, Bell, Bentley Rhythm Ace, Benzaiten, Britain, Can, Clouds, Dark Magus, Drum, Family Affair, Family Stone, French, Funky Me, James Mtume, Je, Kingdom Come's Journey, L'Espoir, Léo Ferré, Miles Davis
related to Digital sampling · 22
Drum machine → Computer, Devo's New Traditionalists, Due, Gary Numan's Dance, Giorgio Moroder's, It, Its, Like, LinnDrum, LM-1, LM-1s, Many, Only, Priced, Prince, Purple Rain, Ric Ocasek's Beatitude, Scarface, The Cars' Heartbeat City, The Human League's Dare
related to Later machines · 16
Drum machine → Alesis, Alesis D4, Boss, By, However, Internet, Korg, MIDI, Roland Corporation, Roland TD-8, SR-16, There, These, TR-808, Unless, Zoom
related to Roland TR-808 and TR-909 · 10
Drum machine → Having, In, It, Launched, LM-1, Roland, Roland Corporation, The, TR-808 Rhythm Composer, Unlike
related to Programming · 9
Drum machine → For, If, MIDI, On, Programming, The, This, TR-808, TR-909
related to Raymond Scott (1960–1963) · 8
Drum machine → Baby, Bandito, Bongo Artist, In, Raymond Scott, Rhythm Synthesizer, Scott's, Soothing Sounds
related to Programmable drum machines · 7
Drum machine → Another, ComputeRhythm, Eko, In, It, PAiA Programmable Drum Set, The
related to Comparison with live drumming · 3
Drum machine → Additionally, Human, While
is a · 1
Drum machine → electronic musical instrument that creates percussion sounds
related to Labor costs · 1
Drum machine → Increasingly

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Drum machineis aelectronic musical instrument that creates percussion sounds0.90text
swing factorsinstance ofIt also featured rhythmic concepts0.80text
shuffleinstance ofIt also featured rhythmic concepts0.80text
accentinstance ofIt also featured rhythmic concepts0.80text
and real-time programminginstance ofIt also featured rhythmic concepts0.80text
The Cars' Heartbeat Cityinstance ofThe LinnDrum can be heard on records0.80text
Giorgio Moroder's soundtrack for the film Scarface.It was feared the LM-1 would put every session drummer in Los Angeles out of workinstance ofThe LinnDrum can be heard on records0.80text
it caused many of L.A.'s top session drummersinstance ofThe LinnDrum can be heard on records0.80text
Marvin Gaye'sinstance ofpopularized by early hits0.80text
technoinstance ofit influenced the development of electronic genres0.80text
houseinstance ofit influenced the development of electronic genres0.80text
acid.Later machinesBy 2000instance ofit influenced the development of electronic genres0.80text

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