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Monday, July 12, 2010

Programmable drum machine - Hack a Day

Programmable drum machine

posted Jul 12th 2010 3:00pm by Mike Szczys
filed under: musical hacks

This sequencer, called Drumssette, uses audio tape to churn out some beats. [Mike Walters] built this around a Tascam four track cassette recorder. The tape inside has a different drum sound on each of the tracks, with a corresponding row of red buttons. Pushing a button adds the drum sound to the loop on that beat. He’s using a series of digital logic gates to patch through the sounds as well as clocking the device from one of the tape’s tracks. It’s pretty  neat  to see the focus selector used in the video after the break to sync up the beginning of the repeated drum patterns. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen [Mike's] work. If you missed it last year take some time to review the Melloman.

Hardware  walk through

Audio demonstration

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http://hackaday.com/2010/07/12/programmable-drum-machine/

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