Nuova Elettronica (Italian for "New Electronics") was a very popular magazine which published several schematics and projects for all sorts of electronic devices, including lots of music-related stuff such as amplifiers, guitar effects and the "Generatore di Ritmi" you played here. The kits could be ordered by mail and assembled following the instructions in each article, and of course if you were tech-savvy enough you could make your own modifications to the circuits provided. The entire archive of Nuova Elettronica is available online in pdf form, so if anybody wants to build a clone of the Generatore di Ritmi, the schematics and parts list are out there :-)
the samples on the digital machines are too great!!! the sound of italo-disco and eurobeat! the clap on the viscount machines is truly awesome. the snare on the gisman rhythm machine has so much snap to it!
It’s crazy how good both the digital and analog ones sound in their ways. You can hear all the love of music these designers had. I wish i could meet the Italian music nerds who made these in like 1977-1984, crack a couple Peronis and hear them talk.
I wonder how aware they were of what was going on in the US and particularly in Japan, because some of these sounds are _so_ familiar when you've used Korg and Roland rhythm machines from the 60s and 70s or Wurlitzer stuff. But then there's all the other unique machines too. Those digital boxes are about as crunchy as it gets too! Fascinating, can't wait to visit!
I'm pretty sure the Italian companies did as most other companies: Buying the other manufacturer's products and doing something similar. : ) Hence why most of them not only shares the sound design but also product design.
Yes I think Korg and Wurlitzer were the pioneers of this type of drum circuitry, and later others went on to expand on it. Roland took it up a level with CR and more significantly with TR models, changing from noise based cymbals/hats to square wave clusters. Love all these old drum boxes, the way the sounds interact and in many cases use shared elements.
There was nothing special going on in the USA, just more rhythm boxes from organ manufacturers - just like Italy. Two different markets and the price of exporting at the time was pretty high. Hence the Italians did well in Europe.
This is how I use my Volca Drum. I make 15 presets (I always leave 1 the same) and then play the touch strip while in preset loading mode. You can change presets 30 times within 1 bar, if you want to. It's great! To hear the effect, slowed down so it's more obvious, it's used on an older track I uploaded called "Friendly Fire", and also on a more recent upload called "Haken Continuum and Volca Drum". The drums and bass were made on the Volca Drum using the technique I described, and then I overdubbed the Continuum part afterwards. The Volca touchstrip makes switching presets much more fluid than on these old machines, plus obviously you can program your own beats, unlike with these machines. But I started that technique because all I had was a preset machine (way back when).
Back in those years Italy was designing and manufacturing a lot of equipment! Including olivetti computers, TV's, optical equipment, Hi-Fi gear, pro-audio gear, laboratory equipment and more. Nowdays most of it is gone!
Aahh bro!!! Great work!! Cant believe you chose the dreambox. As soon as i heard it i went "oh yeah!! Early Caberet Voltaire". Thanks for your work. Always enjoyed and appreciated. 👍
hainbach, your work is definitely apart of my music and i can’t thank you enough for your exploration of these rare instruments man , i sample all of your videos and always tell my friends where i got it from … i love what you do it’s one of one type stuff
Put some nice eq and reverb on that Viscount clap, it’d *slap* for space disco! The analog machines are where my heart really is, though. Recently picked up the Cyclone cr78 clone and it sounds so good i wanna chew on it. Guess i’ll have to get on your Patreon!! Bless you for recording all these rare analog machines!
The museum should partner with waves or another plug-in designer to create bundles which capture all of these machines! Many of us would pay for the privilege of owning VSTs of these.
@@RiccardoPietroni VST's are unarguably the best way to bring your passion of collecting rare instruments to the fingertips to musicians around the world, but perhaps more importantly earn a profit in doing so. Any relevant collector who wants to profit off their passion aught to consider it. The intitial work is hell, as I'm well aware, but musicians will easily pay a fair amount for a well-marketed instrument that they feel a connection to. Not to mention you're doing your part in preserving and distributing access to such beautiful instruments. Ask Hainbach & AudioThing how well Wires did. Or other independent VST producers like Felt Instruments. Might be worth the effort 😉
I really enjoyed and appreciated this and was thinking throughout: "Plug in Momentary foot-switches in the back for break and fill-in to free the hands and increase the versatility of play!" I finally got my wish with the Crumar. That's the way to one- man-band it while surrounded by a few keyboards.
I suffer from heavy 70s and 80s vibe and culture and just the design of the machine are just heart melting how phat these drum sequences are . During a time when stuff seemed a lot better
Rhythm Maker 16 is not Italian - you are correct. However some of the European imported ones had Farfisa stickers put on them, but they were made in Japan in 1969 and usually badged as a Nomad (also Hillwood). From the book Drumfax 1 by Alex Graham.
I'm loving that cymbal sound on the CRB computer rhythm, great video! Just seeing these things inspires me to recreate their sounds/patterns on a modern drum machine/sampler
Wonderful to see that museum again :). Excellent industrial design on those drum machines - especially the buttons! My fingers are itching to fiddle around with those rhythms :D. Gotta love those low-fi samples too! 5:38 : "Break warning" ;D!? Is that typically something you need warnings for? "Woah, you're about to break the drum machine with that fat, tinny groove you've got going! Easy now!"
That CRB is a treat. Eko Rhyhm box could rock the house. Eko Dream Box with that resonant noise makes me wonder how to model in modular. Resonant eq right? The Godwin looks amazing. it's hard to hear these boxes without musical backup but great to compare them all this way so bravo. Thanks for taking time to do this :)
It’s actually quite easy to build keyboards for arrangers like Elka Wilgamat, Welson Ritmo, Godwin Drummaker etc. I built several for instruments i picked up that with missing keyboards.
Listen to the very unique clock swing !! It's so human-like at least to me!! I would love to Extract the Swing groove Algorithm and apply it to my DAW.
This place is mind blowing. Thank you so much for sharing this. It’s awesome hearing your choices while jamming with these unique machines. It really gives insight into what they can do.
That "Rythym Maker 16" @ 09:45 gave me images in my head... a pickup truck full of somalies chasing another care on the sandfilled streets of mogadishu with this music blasting from their broken carspeakers
A plug in like this with new features, like delay, bit crush, reverbs, would be insane. I just bought the Mr. Hainbach Mtron expansion and I am over the moon with it btw.
that viscount pcm 64s drum machine sounds 100% legit italo house. i could make beats with that all day long. i wonder if theres a soft synth version.....
Schon lange nicht mehr so viele ITT Schadow Digitast auf einen Haufen gesehen! (Oh, well, it's a long time ago that I've seen so many ITT Schadow Digitast keys in one place!)
I'm going to have to say the Elka Drumstar 80 is my personal favorite, if only because the guiro sounds like you just stepped in something extremely unpleasant. 😆
Your videos are awesome!! I completely enjoy them and they are informative. Can you make a video on musique concrete? If not with real audiomagnetic tape then virtually with an audio editor? Cut up audio recordings and piece a composition together, composed or random? Splicing audio magtape can take forever like composing on a Roland MC-4 Microcomposer, what they mean by painstaking, so the virtual version is not a bad idea. Also, maybe an explanation and comparison of modular and semimodular synthesizers? Like a modular Moog or Polyfusion versus an Arp 2500 or Korg PS-3300? And what about a PPG Waveform 2.3, Synclavier, General Development System (GDS), E-mu Drumulator, Korg KR-55 and Korg Trident, if you can find any of them? Awesome show!!
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Nuova Elettronica (Italian for "New Electronics") was a very popular magazine which published several schematics and projects for all sorts of electronic devices, including lots of music-related stuff such as amplifiers, guitar effects and the "Generatore di Ritmi" you played here.
The kits could be ordered by mail and assembled following the instructions in each article, and of course if you were tech-savvy enough you could make your own modifications to the circuits provided.
The entire archive of Nuova Elettronica is available online in pdf form, so if anybody wants to build a clone of the Generatore di Ritmi, the schematics and parts list are out there :-)
the samples on the digital machines are too great!!! the sound of italo-disco and eurobeat! the clap on the viscount machines is truly awesome. the snare on the gisman rhythm machine has so much snap to it!
Yeah, they're great. I love the sounds of early digital drum machines in general. Oberheim is usually my favourite but this stacks up.
It’s crazy how good both the digital and analog ones sound in their ways. You can hear all the love of music these designers had. I wish i could meet the Italian music nerds who made these in like 1977-1984, crack a couple Peronis and hear them talk.
Some seriously thrumpy snares in this vid. The best type of snare. A nice bit of thrump 😂 amazing place
Ritmo 80 fudging heck that’s the one right there ooohf
Thanks 🙏
I wonder how aware they were of what was going on in the US and particularly in Japan, because some of these sounds are _so_ familiar when you've used Korg and Roland rhythm machines from the 60s and 70s or Wurlitzer stuff. But then there's all the other unique machines too.
Those digital boxes are about as crunchy as it gets too! Fascinating, can't wait to visit!
@@itdtv2510 The Rhythm Aces were Ace Tone, Ikutaro Kakehashi's earlier company.
I'm pretty sure the Italian companies did as most other companies: Buying the other manufacturer's products and doing something similar. : ) Hence why most of them not only shares the sound design but also product design.
Yes I think Korg and Wurlitzer were the pioneers of this type of drum circuitry, and later others went on to expand on it. Roland took it up a level with CR and more significantly with TR models, changing from noise based cymbals/hats to square wave clusters. Love all these old drum boxes, the way the sounds interact and in many cases use shared elements.
There was nothing special going on in the USA, just more rhythm boxes from organ manufacturers - just like Italy. Two different markets and the price of exporting at the time was pretty high. Hence the Italians did well in Europe.
Get in from work, pour myself a cold one and listen to 23 minutes of drum machines. Good stuff!
This is how I use my Volca Drum. I make 15 presets (I always leave 1 the same) and then play the touch strip while in preset loading mode. You can change presets 30 times within 1 bar, if you want to. It's great! To hear the effect, slowed down so it's more obvious, it's used on an older track I uploaded called "Friendly Fire", and also on a more recent upload called "Haken Continuum and Volca Drum". The drums and bass were made on the Volca Drum using the technique I described, and then I overdubbed the Continuum part afterwards. The Volca touchstrip makes switching presets much more fluid than on these old machines, plus obviously you can program your own beats, unlike with these machines. But I started that technique because all I had was a preset machine (way back when).
Those old arrangers are so cool. I wish some small synth company would make stuff like that again.
6:45 "Add Maracas" buttons are the future tbh
Back in those years Italy was designing and manufacturing a lot of equipment! Including olivetti computers, TV's, optical equipment, Hi-Fi gear, pro-audio gear, laboratory equipment and more. Nowdays most of it is gone!
Whatever happened to Italy
In the 1980s, Italy's economy even overtook the UK for a while.
@@wokeil The EU, and globalization
Aahh bro!!! Great work!! Cant believe you chose the dreambox. As soon as i heard it i went "oh yeah!! Early Caberet Voltaire". Thanks for your work. Always enjoyed and appreciated. 👍
Those are the sounds I search for.
Wow. Thank you for sharing this with everyone. Very fun!
The sound of an old preset drum box is probably my favorite sound in the world.
hainbach, your work is definitely apart of my music and i can’t thank you enough for your exploration of these rare instruments man , i sample all of your videos and always tell my friends where i got it from … i love what you do it’s one of one type stuff
Thank you for taking the time to do this.
Those Viscount machines are very Oberheim-esque. Love the kick sounds on them.
Never thought I'd by dancing the _CHA-CHA_ to an Hainbach video.
That Gisman sounds like a track on it's own. Beautiful overtones.
thanks a lot mr hainbach, i love the synths and vintage
Elgam is my favourite. Sounds so musical and has a kind of self grooving I can't explain...
I'm so happy, thank you very much !
The Match 15 C has a great sound. Love that one.
Put some nice eq and reverb on that Viscount clap, it’d *slap* for space disco! The analog machines are where my heart really is, though. Recently picked up the Cyclone cr78 clone and it sounds so good i wanna chew on it. Guess i’ll have to get on your Patreon!! Bless you for recording all these rare analog machines!
The museum should partner with waves or another plug-in designer to create bundles which capture all of these machines! Many of us would pay for the privilege of owning VSTs of these.
Straight up
Exactly that! There are enough “classic” emulations, let’s focus on the lesser known! I also enjoyed the previous visit to the Italian museum.
Thanks for the idea. We’ll work on it but we are just 5 persons with a lot of passion and lot of work to do…
Hainbach said he's putting loops on his patreon, but I know what you mean
@@RiccardoPietroni VST's are unarguably the best way to bring your passion of collecting rare instruments to the fingertips to musicians around the world, but perhaps more importantly earn a profit in doing so.
Any relevant collector who wants to profit off their passion aught to consider it. The intitial work is hell, as I'm well aware, but musicians will easily pay a fair amount for a well-marketed instrument that they feel a connection to.
Not to mention you're doing your part in preserving and distributing access to such beautiful instruments.
Ask Hainbach & AudioThing how well Wires did. Or other independent VST producers like Felt Instruments. Might be worth the effort 😉
The hand clap on the PCM Viscount is beautiful!
The texture f the hi-end from that CRB diamond 725 is just something else!
I really enjoyed and appreciated this and was thinking throughout: "Plug in Momentary foot-switches in the back for break and fill-in to free the hands and increase the versatility of play!" I finally got my wish with the Crumar. That's the way to one- man-band it while surrounded by a few keyboards.
I suffer from heavy 70s and 80s vibe and culture and just the design of the machine are just heart melting how phat these drum sequences are . During a time when stuff seemed a lot better
I love them all! Even the broken.
Rhythm Maker 16 is not Italian - you are correct. However some of the European imported ones had Farfisa stickers put on them, but they were made in Japan in 1969 and usually badged as a Nomad (also Hillwood). From the book Drumfax 1 by Alex Graham.
I'm a fan of any drum machine that has a 'break warning' light.
Una hermosísima colección. Gracias por mostrar!
I'm loving that cymbal sound on the CRB computer rhythm, great video! Just seeing these things inspires me to recreate their sounds/patterns on a modern drum machine/sampler
That sound dope me to
EKO Dream Box 12 for the nice way the hats/cymbal/snare filtering interacted. Around 12:08
Yes! That is the one I got after checking out all of these
I think my favourite is the CRB Computer Rhythm. Makes me feel like I'm at a cool '80s Italian pool party.
my favorite was the crb analog one, loved these sounds
i love how good Hainy is at playing old drum machines :)
Wonderful to see that museum again :). Excellent industrial design on those drum machines - especially the buttons! My fingers are itching to fiddle around with those rhythms :D. Gotta love those low-fi samples too!
5:38 : "Break warning" ;D!? Is that typically something you need warnings for? "Woah, you're about to break the drum machine with that fat, tinny groove you've got going! Easy now!"
Yeah it’s one of the oddest buttons. The Computerband 2000 also has it
Last time I saw that many drum machines was a tour of Moby’s studio. My favourite is the drum maker 32p.
he had some italians too...
Diamond is so noisy and very nice. The rhythm maker 16 had rhythms that seemed unique as compared to the others.
We have different Crb Drum in the Museo and all is playing like this one, so noisy and crispy.
Your cassette arrived today and I must say core memory is a fantastic listen!
Got that Crumar sounds AMAZING
This video is great I appreciate it!! So great getting to hear all of these.
I checked the screen every time I heard a machine made by Eko without knowing. So awesome
That CRB is a treat. Eko Rhyhm box could rock the house. Eko Dream Box with that resonant noise makes me wonder how to model in modular. Resonant eq right? The Godwin looks amazing. it's hard to hear these boxes without musical backup but great to compare them all this way so bravo. Thanks for taking time to do this :)
Not gonna lie I questioned my sanity after the 13th waltz
After the 13th waltz you start looking like Christoph Waltz 👀
It’s actually quite easy to build keyboards for arrangers like Elka Wilgamat, Welson Ritmo, Godwin Drummaker etc.
I built several for instruments i picked up that with missing keyboards.
Yeah! Great to see such sweet analog varieties. Many never seen in the states.✨ Great video.⚡️
5 seconds in I knew this was a channel for me + Look mum no computer as top commenter sealed the deal!
Listen to the very unique clock swing !! It's so human-like at least to me!!
I would love to Extract the Swing groove Algorithm and apply it to my DAW.
I can totally hear the variation in tones in the analog drum machines
I don't think it works like that does it?
Every time this guy posts a video i do my impression of Jack Nickolson's joker. " Where does he get all those wonderful toys!!!"
Boosta! YES! Grazie Hainbach ❤️
a great friend of Museo
@@RiccardoPietroni ragazzi il vostro lavoro è inestimabile, complimenti di cuore! ❤️✨
Excellent finger dancing on the Generatore Di Ritmi LX259.
I'm italian and didn't know about this place, need to visit ASAP!
Oh, that Diamond-drummer sounds lovely! And I almost regret not picking up the Wilgamat on german Ebay years ago when it kept popping up...
Drums way better in my ears :D
This place is mind blowing. Thank you so much for sharing this. It’s awesome hearing your choices while jamming with these unique machines. It really gives insight into what they can do.
Ah, that EKO Ritmo20. Such wooly fluffiness. Exquisite!
Paradise exists!!! Thanks for this.
That was fun...nice jams too...looking fwd to that synth
Every drum machine should have an "Add Maracas" button.
But everyone has Waltz button!!!
I liked the Eko Rhythm Maker as I too am somewhat broken
19:40 That thing sounds beautiful!
Love videos like this of random stuff which sound great but you can't find any !
That "Rythym Maker 16" @ 09:45 gave me images in my head... a pickup truck full of somalies chasing another care on the sandfilled streets of mogadishu with this music blasting from their broken carspeakers
Elka Drumstar 80 sounded cool, but even older analog have been used by great artists like Moby, Jean-Michel Jarre and Phil Collins. Cool video!
I had to breath dust for 2 hours, but the Viscount 64 Is back home again
love 13m40s !!!!
LOVE THIS
Another thing I’ve never seen before 👍
9:30 now I know where Aphex Twin got the idea for Ventolin!
that 64 s looks soooooo dope, even for today
A plug in like this with new features, like delay, bit crush, reverbs, would be insane. I just bought the Mr. Hainbach Mtron expansion and I am over the moon with it btw.
that viscount pcm 64s drum machine sounds 100% legit italo house. i could make beats with that all day long. i wonder if theres a soft synth version.....
It sounds wonderful doesn't it.
There is a kontakt version on polynormal site or high quality samples. Might stick them in my tr8s
2.19 Lil Louis. French. Kiss
I do love the sound of the Match 15 C
Lovely machines!
These are super fun!
2:38 The Drumstar 80 has a "little brother" called Drumstar 64. Cooles Video mal wieder! 👍
Nowadays all those buttons would just say "techno" rather than , foxtrot, mambo and cha cha cha etc
That was awesome, thank you
Super cool. More cool than usual fair
1:11 That first drum beat sounds exactly like the early 'zombie' and 'cannibal' films from the 'video nasty' era 😆 i.e. Cannibal Ferox etc
that eko dream box 12 sounds fantastic
Absolutely! It’s has a psychedelic edge to it
The rytmo 20 sounds so good
Schon lange nicht mehr so viele ITT Schadow Digitast auf einen Haufen gesehen! (Oh, well, it's a long time ago that I've seen so many ITT Schadow Digitast keys in one place!)
Crazy that you really needed a whole hardware device for a few loops
Man that 64s is tye real deal huh. LOVE that kick sound
Wow that Elka Drumstar 80 is cool... It would go nicely with my Elka Panther organ... ☮🔥
Wow, the Eko Ritmo 20 is awsome it pretty much sounds like the Korg KR55 which is one of my favorite drum machine
The pdm 64s looks like it should be partnered with a Juno 60.
Is it weird that every time i get a hainbach video in my feed i imagine his voice reading the title lmao
Wir brauchen ein 'Der Mussolini' Italo micro beat ausführung!! Spass und geil!!!!!!
Dance the mussolini!!!!
UAUUUUUU!! INCREÍBLE.
FELICIDADES DESDE SAN SEBASTIÁN... ESPAÑA.
"sounds just like a Suicide record" - that does it for me - where can I get one? Btw, love to hear that you're a Suicide fan, Hainbach! Cool!
I found one on www.mercatinomusicale.com for 130 eur, there where two more at that price last week.
@@Hainbach really? wow! I was kinda joking, but hey, thanks!
The Wilgamat (with keyboard) gets my vote. Nice Reggae tones!
Pura magia retro!
I'm going to have to say the Elka Drumstar 80 is my personal favorite, if only because the guiro sounds like you just stepped in something extremely unpleasant. 😆
Your videos are awesome!! I completely enjoy them and they are informative. Can you make a video on musique concrete? If not with real audiomagnetic tape then virtually with an audio editor? Cut up audio recordings and piece a composition together, composed or random? Splicing audio magtape can take forever like composing on a Roland MC-4 Microcomposer, what they mean by painstaking, so the virtual version is not a bad idea.
Also, maybe an explanation and comparison of modular and semimodular synthesizers? Like a modular Moog or Polyfusion versus an Arp 2500 or Korg PS-3300?
And what about a PPG Waveform 2.3, Synclavier, General Development System (GDS), E-mu Drumulator, Korg KR-55 and Korg Trident, if you can find any of them?
Awesome show!!
20:10 JMJ's sound ... one of the parts of Magnetic Fields. If I remember correctly it should be part 5 🙂
Wonderful! Molto bene