@@everydaysame4880 if head over to above link you can choose between three different tiers - the 7.5ips one gives you access to all past and future soundpacks. There are a lot.
@@Hainbach thanks..can I ask you what syth youd recommend for strings..from esoteric to jupiter 6 style ish..sorry for the lame description..thanks..obviously cheaper the better and I make underground dance music..
Chris Franke: Sound On Sound, December 1994: “The Rhythm Controller was a surprise; it came from Italy, from a company called EKO, who made all these cheap warehouse organs. They had come up with this science-fiction-looking machine, a console with eight rows of 16 big knobs which lit up! It worked like a sequencer, which was great, because there were no drum machines in those days. I could programme a rhythm that the machine could remember. It was completely analogue, you pushed the buttons and they made the contact - and it was polyphonic! The lights blinked, like on an early Moog sequencer. And when the sequence or rhythm was still running I could change it, I could delete, skip, and change the rhythm while it was playing. I always liked this aspect of any sequencer. The internal sounds were pretty lousy, but the control panel looked great, and was nice to operate. Later, I built trigger outputs and triggered other synths with the thing, so it became a controller. Years later, I saw Manuel Göttsching play it live on stage in Paris”.
Just saw a picture of this machine in Leonardo Gabrielli's book "Developing Virtual Synthesizers with VCV Rack" which I got yesterday, the day you posted this! Amazing synergy!
1972! That is way head isn't it, I think I'd forgotten how ahead of its time it was, even though I've known of it for years thanks to JJM. It's also brilliant that they've tracked down the creators, that opportunity won't be available in the coming decades! Sounds so punchy and alive even now and then the Uranus 2 enters! Delicious. I really have to make it my mission to get over there to see all that beautiful stuff, looks like heaven.
You will have a good time! I only had two days at the museo, could spend way more. But for some reason three Italian synths turned up and an organ at my house. Strange how that could happen.
In assoluto la mia drum machine preferita di sempre un grazie a tutti quelli che hanno contribuito a realizzarla, grazie per la condivisione di questo bel video. Absolutely my favorite drum machine ever thanks to everyone who helped make it, thanks for sharing this great video.
OMG, this must felt like being in paradise! I would love to visit that place too. And wow, this machine was a hugely amount of time ahead in the history of electronic music. Thanks for this video! Thumbs up!
This is amazing..and we owe the creator a place in history for giving us the blueprint on which all drum machines and drum programming is based on this. It’s in superb condition too it looks like new.
I had no idea of this existing, the quality of the sounds and the actual drum machine's layout are incredible! For 1972 this is very well designed, I can see how the 808 may have been inspired by the Computerhythm! Excellent video Hainbach! And 5:37 I felt the genuine enthusiasm from both of you haha!
And it sounds great too. Seems like this thing was over a decade ahead of its time. Even now it's hard to find a drum machine with an interface quite like this.
It would be awesome to have a VST emulator of that machine. Thank you for providing us with the insight on that beautiful piece of electronic instruments history with this two-part video, it was pure joy to watch them.
What a beautiful and unique instrument: no doubt from a time of original thinking and real innovation, no recipes, smart people had not fear to take big risk on pursuing their dreams. Many thanks for sharing this wonderfull video document!
@@kemek3000 I know that he composed it on a plane, but I also know that there is this drum machine, also a pearl syncussion, an ARP sequencer, and a synthi AKS which was probably used for the ring mod and the filter. Probably other sequencers and synths but you can google his website and he will show you what kinda stuff he’s had over the years!
Manuel Gottsching used this machine on "silence sauvage", a spacey rhythmic instrumental track that was in the soundtrack for the movie "Le Berceau de Cristal" (1975), that he and Lutz Ulbrich (as Ash Ra Tempel) recorded back then. Although the film (that featured Nico as an actress) was a bit odd, the Ash Ra Tempel soundtrack was excellent: The title track was a haunting ambient masterpiece, Silence Sauvage (with the Eko computerhythm ) was 20 years ahead of its time, more like an 90s track than a 70s, and Ulbrich used, to a great effect, guitar synths, besides their "normal " sounding guitars, Farfisas etc.
He also used it on E2-E4, all along the 60 min track! It is a nice sounding rhythm. I am trying to recreate E2-E4 myself as a kind of "cover", see how it goes.
this was great fun, hainbach!! I love your gracious host's classic italian accent. & that machine is so sweet & so magickal!! & 26k views in a single day... not bad, sir. not bad. ;-) _/\_
Fascinating. I have seen this device on pictures and videos from Jean Michel Jarre's studio, but never really understood what it actually did. It is The origin of Roland drum machines, like the TR606 on which I learned this programming style that I used extensively in the time when I had one. Praise to the inventors at Marche, and good that they finally get some recognition! Looking forward to maybe some more videos from that region.
The texture and tonality of that drone has inspired me to find a solution to completing a track that has been refusing to cooperate, thank you so much!
@@tonybucks5709 well, let say that sometimes we (Italians) are genuinely smart, and when we're dumb and incompetents we're enough weaseling smart in pretending to be clever! 😎 You know, like Cristoforo Colombo, that was actually heading for India... I imagine he then was like "Hey, are you talking to me? Are you fucking talking to me? Yeah yeah, I was off a little bit, a little bit, but hey, I'm a cool fella who discovered a new country, heeey! So pay respects or you'll sleep with the fishes, capish?!". 😄 Sometimes we're just... I don't know the English equivalent for "paraculo" (butt-shielding person), but we can be that! On the other hand, Italians actually invented some revolutionary things without being credited or known for it: The Cinebox (the video jukebox, a sort of "TH-cam of 50's"), telephone (by Antonio Meucci), radio (by Guglielmo Marconi), the first personal computer (by Olivetti's company)... and (I find out just now, through this video) the drum machine! In light of all this, If we pretend that mafia it was never a real thing, we can look like quite nice people! 😉
About the cool style: I guess the aesthetic was ever been an important feature for us, like if it was linked to the Italian DNA. And I suppose the reason we never been so good at war was because military uniforms aren't so stylish! And the average Italian soldier is like: "these rags don't make me shine: if I don't look fancy and cool I give up and never fight any battle, fuck you army!".
Funny I keep seeing this machine pop up, just listened to E2-E4 for the first time and read this was the machine used and since then I've been seeing it everywhere!
@@top-ten.music_and_more Jarre’s videos is not the best source to say what instruments was used on a certain album and not. He loved to show off his machines and I don’t blame him.
@@zielonyf6824 In oxygen, only the Korg Minipop standards were used. At that time all drum machines were known as computer rhythm. In equinoxe, 3 combined drum machines were used. Minipop, Geiss computer rhythm and Eko Computer rhythm. In Band in the rain the rhythm is done by the elka 707 organ.
To see the creators of this incredible machine is the icing on the cake. As the narrator says, it was almost a decade ahead of its time in terms of its programmability. The actual drum sounds are brilliant as well, I love the early analogue sounds of machines like this and the early Rolands such as the TR77.
"Can I play it?" :) almost forgot I was watching a hainbach video at this point, can't wait to see their documentary, will they release it on their youtube channel?
This is amazing! Glad to be subbed to your channel since purchasing GAUSS for iPad when it was first released. May have to sign to your Patreon to get the loops & single shots from this device.
@@Hainbach wonderful, you manage to capture all sorts in such a challenging time with the foresight to produce quality content, it is beyond me how you manage your time between fathering, husbanding, producering, tinkering and editing. Well done!
@@Hainbach ....the MARS!!!. I spent two or three years on it. I used it live a lot of times, also on the very first live set of my main project. I remember it has a very weird sampling rate (39 kHz or something). I still got the Atari with its editor here in my lab :-D
Eko also produced lots of good stuff in the guitar branch. Under its own name or under Vox brand (e.g. Phantom and Teardrop guitars). This said, this drum is just incredible for the time. Great firm, an italian pride.
My parents bought me an Eko semi-acoustic bass guitar for my 21st birthday. Despite Eko having gone bankrupt many years before, it had just been made as a former employee bought all the remaining guitar parts. He has made a limited number of instruments from those parts over the years, check out Brandoni guitars.
@@chriswareham will do, a beat up Eko ranger xii just came into the shop i work at so i had to have it, it needs some love n a fresh set of strings but I'll be playing it before long
Petabytes, happy you appreciate the Eko, but also happy that you like the T-shirt. We made it for the 2007 DEVO EU tour, and it was also featured on Devo's website at the time! :D
@@paolobragaglia that is awesome!! Devo has been one of my favorite bands since the early 1980’s! What an great drum machine you have there! Thanks for letting us see it! 👍
@@2.7petabytes I've seen Devo live in 1980, "Freedom of choice" tour. I was almost a kid and my life has not been the same since then. Happy you appreciate the EKO, thank you!
Did you get any insight into how the drum sounds were made - filtered square waves? He mentions adding a bit more capacitance during the restoration - would love to hear the details of the circuitry.
Italians could have landed on the moon, but they preferred staying on earth and improving electronic instruments. They were right, no sound on the moon, no reason for us to go there..
As an American, i keep thinking why the coolest stuff in the World is italian, from super cars like Ferrari to the discovery of America and now the very first drum machine.
Guglielmo Marconi invented radio comunications Enrico Fermi invented the first nuclear reactor.. Antonio Meucci the telephone.. Olivetti the first personal computer... Caproni the first jet airplane Volta the first battery
my first instinct with any digital thing i get (vsts bc i'm from brazil and everything costs a kidney) is to make them drone thanks for having the same intuition, hainbach!
Get loops and single shots from this machine and support what I do: patreon.com/hainbach
how do a become patrion to get samples? is it being a member?
@@everydaysame4880 if head over to above link you can choose between three different tiers - the 7.5ips one gives you access to all past and future soundpacks. There are a lot.
@@Hainbach thanks..can I ask you what syth youd recommend for strings..from esoteric to jupiter 6 style ish..sorry for the lame description..thanks..obviously cheaper the better and I make underground dance music..
@@everydaysame4880 I love the old string machines - Logan, Wersi, Farfisa, Crumar - so many. Just pick one you like.
I just sampled this from your video, great stuff
it was for me a pleasure to bring this wonderful machine back to life.
Congrats !
Beautiful job, Marco!
Sei il nostro mito assoluto
Without your passion, talent, work and genius we could not have this gem in this working state! Thank you Marco!
Great interview Marco! Thanks!
Chris Franke: Sound On Sound, December 1994: “The Rhythm Controller was a surprise; it came from Italy, from a company called EKO, who made all these cheap warehouse organs. They had come up with this science-fiction-looking machine, a console with eight rows of 16 big knobs which lit up! It worked like a sequencer, which was great, because there were no drum machines in those days. I could programme a rhythm that the machine could remember. It was completely analogue, you pushed the buttons and they made the contact - and it was polyphonic! The lights blinked, like on an early Moog sequencer. And when the sequence or rhythm was still running I could change it, I could delete, skip, and change the rhythm while it was playing. I always liked this aspect of any sequencer. The internal sounds were pretty lousy, but the control panel looked great, and was nice to operate. Later, I built trigger outputs and triggered other synths with the thing, so it became a controller. Years later, I saw Manuel Göttsching play it live on stage in Paris”.
Andy thanks for that!
Thank you for this quote!
@@museodelsynthmarchigiano1717 if you ever need confirmation on anything Tangerine Dream, Andy is your guy.
Just saw a picture of this machine in Leonardo Gabrielli's book "Developing Virtual Synthesizers with VCV Rack" which I got yesterday, the day you posted this! Amazing synergy!
Chris Franke sold his to Manual Gottsching, who still has it
I played for hours when it come out. My uncle founded the EKO and my dad helped to run it. They made cool things!
Guarda, se mi regali una eko ranger 12 corde mi fai un piacere 😂😂
@@Belzebru troppo tardi… la vera EKO chiuse i battenti nei primi anni 80…
hook it up bro
That punchcard reader! Almost seems quicker than the UI of most sequencers
I'd so much rather have a stack of punchcards than try to remember all the UI button press combinations on all my hardware.
Maybe it could be reintroduced using Arduino and some sensors?
My first synth, the EML Synkey model 2001 built in 1978, uses punch cards too!
1972! That is way head isn't it, I think I'd forgotten how ahead of its time it was, even though I've known of it for years thanks to JJM.
It's also brilliant that they've tracked down the creators, that opportunity won't be available in the coming decades!
Sounds so punchy and alive even now and then the Uranus 2 enters! Delicious. I really have to make it my mission to get over there to see all that beautiful stuff, looks like heaven.
You will have a good time! I only had two days at the museo, could spend way more. But for some reason three Italian synths turned up and an organ at my house. Strange how that could happen.
@@Hainbach Haha. You're like the Pied Piper of Synths. :)
We are waiting for you Alex and Stefan you have the keys…
@@RiccardoPietroni 😀
@@AlexBallMusic take that plane! :D
It brings a new meaning to the phrase “waiting for the beat to drop”
The absolute joy in the words "Can I play it?" made me smile.
What a fantastic interface. You can see your drums bouncing around in real time! So clear and satisfying. Warm tones too! Just fabulous! :)
so cool those beats from somthing in 1972 ...i love too see someone to go deep on all the old Italian synths
In assoluto la mia drum machine preferita di sempre un grazie a tutti quelli che hanno contribuito a realizzarla, grazie per la condivisione di questo bel video.
Absolutely my favorite drum machine ever thanks to everyone who helped make it, thanks for sharing this great video.
Recognized it immediately from Oxygene! Looks amazing too, pure 70s bliss.
Hainbach gets his hands on a drum machine: "But does it drone?"
Beautiful performance! Thanks for showcasing these amazing pieces of Italian gear.
OMG, this must felt like being in paradise! I would love to visit that place too. And wow, this machine was a hugely amount of time ahead in the history of electronic music. Thanks for this video! Thumbs up!
This is amazing..and we owe the creator a place in history for giving us the blueprint on which all drum machines and drum programming is based on this.
It’s in superb condition too it looks like new.
Our aim is to put the creators in the place they deserve in history!
The raised panel and multiple track lanes is so perfect for performance, both from a player and and an audience standpoint.
True! It's a joy to use to perform live!
So cool! I love that it uses punch cards as a form of memory!
and it's a form of memory that humans can also read, handy B - )
I had no idea of this existing, the quality of the sounds and the actual drum machine's layout are incredible! For 1972 this is very well designed, I can see how the 808 may have been inspired by the Computerhythm! Excellent video Hainbach!
And 5:37 I felt the genuine enthusiasm from both of you haha!
You could feel the excitement when you heard 'CAN I PLAY IT!?' (fireworks blasting away!)
It sounds pretty cool and the technology is obviously insane but DAMN I'm here for that industrial design.
That drone in the end is absolutely magnificent with the reverb.
And it sounds great too. Seems like this thing was over a decade ahead of its time. Even now it's hard to find a drum machine with an interface quite like this.
It's still a very usable UI, more so than some now. ; - ) menus begone!
Recently deceased Reggae and Dub Legend Lee Perry also used one of these in a couple of mid-70s tracks.
It would be awesome to have a VST emulator of that machine. Thank you for providing us with the insight on that beautiful piece of electronic instruments history with this two-part video, it was pure joy to watch them.
It's tipical in Italy to invent whatever and even forget about it...
Hahahaha... The tradition of forgetting inventions! In Brazil, we have something related...
@@GCSoundArtifacts for real!! we are such creative peoples...
What a beautiful and unique instrument: no doubt from a time of original thinking and real innovation, no recipes, smart people had not fear to take big risk on pursuing their dreams. Many thanks for sharing this wonderfull video document!
Can we at least send these guys a thank you note, or flowers or something? Love this.
Flowers and smiles! Thank you Brutus!
That's a pretty sweet setup. It looks so intuitive and the punchcard reader is so incredibly fast and easy to use. Amazing. Thanks.
Used on ashras new age of earth, one of the best electronic records ever!
Absolutely spot on amazing album! Manuel is a genius...
@@harmonicres 100%… it sounds like he used the high hats through perhaps a phaser then into the synthi aks filter. Incredibly dreamy sounds
Do you know what he used on E2-E4?
@@kemek3000 I know that he composed it on a plane, but I also know that there is this drum machine, also a pearl syncussion, an ARP sequencer, and a synthi AKS which was probably used for the ring mod and the filter. Probably other sequencers and synths but you can google his website and he will show you what kinda stuff he’s had over the years!
@@graxjpg awesome, thanks.
Wow! This was cool to watch. I've never seen this drum machine. Love the preset punch cards.
Looks like a very Interesting arcade machine
Manuel Gottsching used this machine on "silence sauvage", a spacey rhythmic instrumental track that was in the soundtrack for the movie "Le Berceau de Cristal" (1975), that he and Lutz Ulbrich (as Ash Ra Tempel) recorded back then.
Although the film (that featured Nico as an actress) was a bit odd, the Ash Ra Tempel soundtrack was excellent: The title track was a haunting ambient masterpiece, Silence Sauvage (with the Eko computerhythm ) was 20 years ahead of its time, more like an 90s track than a 70s, and Ulbrich used, to a great effect, guitar synths, besides their "normal " sounding guitars, Farfisas etc.
Thank you so much for this precious infos Dimitris!
@@museodelsynthmarchigiano1717 Thanks also, both you and Hainbach, for the video and all these interesting details about this legendary machine!
He also used it on E2-E4, all along the 60 min track! It is a nice sounding rhythm. I am trying to recreate E2-E4 myself as a kind of "cover", see how it goes.
This thing RULES
Dear Hainbach be my guest in Milan! Super Paolo you too!! Incredible job, thanks!! :-)
Ciao Paolo! :D
this was great fun, hainbach!! I love your gracious host's classic italian accent. & that machine is so sweet & so magickal!! & 26k views in a single day... not bad, sir. not bad. ;-) _/\_
1:29 PFshh! the punchcard read noise is a usable sound too. ; - ) cool that you could stamp more by hand
Yes you can!
Loved the sound of it as originally intended - absolutely blown away by the Hainbach drone machine!
Absolutely love the aesthetic. Very utility
wonderful instrument..love the punch-cards too
Fascinating. I have seen this device on pictures and videos from Jean Michel Jarre's studio, but never really understood what it actually did. It is The origin of Roland drum machines, like the TR606 on which I learned this programming style that I used extensively in the time when I had one. Praise to the inventors at Marche, and good that they finally get some recognition!
Looking forward to maybe some more videos from that region.
The texture and tonality of that drone has inspired me to find a solution to completing a track that has been refusing to cooperate, thank you so much!
😲 Astounding beauty!!! PLEASE someone recreate this (and don't forget the light bulbs and punch cards!)!! 🙏🙏
I have a beatstep pro sequencing an Eko dreambox 12 , does that count ? ;)
Arturia are you listening?
Tangerine Dream had one modified so it could play sequences circa 1973
This is a great ad for your Patreon. Great synth stuff around the 8min mark. Sounds lovely.
I’ve always wanted to know more about this wonderful instrument. Now I do... thank you for a great film 👌🏻
Amazing how the first was so pretty and intuitive! Still has a lot to teach
Wonderful and great looking piece of gear! Great drone you made with it!
Interface + sequencer + individual instruments are awesome !!
Amazing video and explanation by the Italian dude. Thanks for keeping it nice and flowy like an old school documentary.
Save n’ load on floppy as well. Beautiful machine!
Heartwarming series! Also love this interface with all the tracks split out
Beautiful sounds! Why can’t we get drum machines that sound like this today?
Jeez....the Italians really did most things we know today first, and not only that but with that cool retro style.
i mean they discovered America and named it after an Italian sailor, pretty obvious they are smart.
@@tonybucks5709 well, let say that sometimes we (Italians) are genuinely smart, and when we're dumb and incompetents we're enough weaseling smart in pretending to be clever!
😎
You know, like Cristoforo Colombo, that was actually heading for India...
I imagine he then was like
"Hey, are you talking to me? Are you fucking talking to me? Yeah yeah, I was off a little bit, a little bit, but hey, I'm a cool fella who discovered a new country, heeey! So pay respects or you'll sleep with the fishes, capish?!".
😄
Sometimes we're just... I don't know the English equivalent for "paraculo" (butt-shielding person), but we can be that!
On the other hand, Italians actually invented some revolutionary things without being credited or known for it:
The Cinebox (the video jukebox, a sort of "TH-cam of 50's"), telephone (by Antonio Meucci), radio (by Guglielmo Marconi), the first personal computer (by Olivetti's company)...
and (I find out just now, through this video) the drum machine!
In light of all this, If we pretend that mafia it was never a real thing, we can look like quite nice people!
😉
About the cool style: I guess the aesthetic was ever been an important feature for us, like if it was linked to the Italian DNA.
And I suppose the reason we never been so good at war was because military uniforms aren't so stylish!
And the average Italian soldier is like: "these rags don't make me shine: if I don't look fancy and cool I give up and never fight any battle, fuck you army!".
@@damanlidison Ah ah, you're right I suppose... :D
@@paolobragaglia 👍!
Funny I keep seeing this machine pop up, just listened to E2-E4 for the first time and read this was the machine used and since then I've been seeing it everywhere!
Sounds great, too. Great video, thank you.
Jarre didn't use it on Oxygene. He used it on Equinoxe alongside the korg mini pop and the computer rhythm built by Michel Geiss
You can see the CompuRythm in the video of oxygene 4. So it was used on oxygene aswell.
@@top-ten.music_and_more Jarre’s videos is not the best source to say what instruments was used on a certain album and not. He loved to show off his machines and I don’t blame him.
@@zielonyf6824 I’ve always assumed that was from the built on rhythm box of the Ella 707. It really sounds like a home organ auto pattern.
@@zielonyf6824 In oxygen, only the Korg Minipop standards were used. At that time all drum machines were known as computer rhythm. In equinoxe, 3 combined drum machines were used. Minipop, Geiss computer rhythm and Eko Computer rhythm. In Band in the rain the rhythm is done by the elka 707 organ.
5:56. THATS HAINBACH ! great !
Wow! What a treasure! I am really fascinated with this machine :)
This is really awesome. I'd use those sounds now!
The timing is 'organic' and out there to say the least.
To see the creators of this incredible machine is the icing on the cake. As the narrator says, it was almost a decade ahead of its time in terms of its programmability. The actual drum sounds are brilliant as well, I love the early analogue sounds of machines like this and the early Rolands such as the TR77.
"Can I play it?" :) almost forgot I was watching a hainbach video at this point, can't wait to see their documentary, will they release it on their youtube channel?
Hi, it is just a trailer for the documentary. We plan to lunch a small crowdfunding to support the expenses of making the whole docu.
Fantastic!
Thank you for this video about a so iconic instrument.
Ooh Yeah...!!!... i love that vintage thing *
This is amazing!
Glad to be subbed to your channel since purchasing GAUSS for iPad when it was first released. May have to sign to your Patreon to get the loops & single shots from this device.
Gosh Hainbach, you were pretty productive in Italy! Great video, any more surprise footage from your Italian Affair?
Yes, the MARS experimental platform. But that is a bit off in the future.
@@Hainbach wonderful, you manage to capture all sorts in such a challenging time with the foresight to produce quality content, it is beyond me how you manage your time between fathering, husbanding, producering, tinkering and editing. Well done!
@@Hainbach ....the MARS!!!. I spent two or three years on it. I used it live a lot of times, also on the very first live set of my main project. I remember it has a very weird sampling rate (39 kHz or something). I still got the Atari with its editor here in my lab :-D
that drone idea was genius man
All I can think of if how jamming with punch cards would be so cool 😂😂. I'd jam with punch cards for an ultra retro feel! 🤘🤘🤘
thats the. most. beautiful thing i have ever seen
This is actually literally awesome.
Eko also produced lots of good stuff in the guitar branch. Under its own name or under Vox brand (e.g. Phantom and Teardrop guitars). This said, this drum is just incredible for the time. Great firm, an italian pride.
Wrote my first song on my EKO Ranger XiI, 1974
@@jeffseven2194
acoustic guitar?
Yes, acoustic 12 string
My parents bought me an Eko semi-acoustic bass guitar for my 21st birthday. Despite Eko having gone bankrupt many years before, it had just been made as a former employee bought all the remaining guitar parts. He has made a limited number of instruments from those parts over the years, check out Brandoni guitars.
@@chriswareham will do, a beat up Eko ranger xii just came into the shop i work at so i had to have it, it needs some love n a fresh set of strings but I'll be playing it before long
this is such a cool idea. historic synth youtube is dope.
That drum machine looks so much fun to play with! Such a beautiful design. The sounds it generates remind me a little of Kraftwerk.
The popular DAW REASON first and main drum machine is based off of this machine. You get up to 16 steps on 8 line which can be selected.
Magnificent in every way❤️🤯🔥
Portishead vibes with that jam at the end there
Did you know: there is a very tiny Phil Collins that speaks perfect Italian inside every Eko Computerhythm.
Argghhhh individual outs too!
Beautiful machine, I love it
Great piece of history. Reminds me my Farfisa Organ.
Amazing work you do Hainbach! What a groovy machine! I’ve never seen or heard of this one EDIT: awesome t-shirt he has! Devo is awesome!
Petabytes, happy you appreciate the Eko, but also happy that you like the T-shirt. We made it for the 2007 DEVO EU tour, and it was also featured on Devo's website at the time! :D
@@paolobragaglia that is awesome!! Devo has been one of my favorite bands since the early 1980’s! What an great drum machine you have there! Thanks for letting us see it! 👍
@@2.7petabytes I've seen Devo live in 1980, "Freedom of choice" tour. I was almost a kid and my life has not been the same since then. Happy you appreciate the EKO, thank you!
Lovely how they labeled the "hihat" as "charleston"
That's the way in Italy the hi hat was called years ago... :D
Did you get any insight into how the drum sounds were made - filtered square waves? He mentions adding a bit more capacitance during the restoration - would love to hear the details of the circuitry.
Let's obtain some infos
That drone at the end!!!! Beautiful.
Italians could have landed on the moon, but they preferred staying on earth and improving electronic instruments.
They were right, no sound on the moon, no reason for us to go there..
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Amazing document! Many thanks for sharing!
As an American, i keep thinking why the coolest stuff in the World is italian, from super cars like Ferrari to the discovery of America and now the very first drum machine.
Guglielmo Marconi invented radio comunications
Enrico Fermi invented the first nuclear reactor..
Antonio Meucci the telephone..
Olivetti the first personal computer...
Caproni the first jet airplane
Volta the first battery
@@doctortubes1 and Aldo Paci @EKO the 16 step programming grid on drum machines! :D
@@museodelsynthmarchigiano1717 yesss!
wow amazing work on this magnificent machine!!!
So cool thanks for the great video!
Amazing sturdy machine.
Fascinatingly I like drum machines and this particular one is very nice inside my ears AND eyes.
You have GOT to try and get this sampled as a pack or as a VST plugin. This is amazing.
Samples: patreon.com/hainbach
Amazing! The sounds seems like intro of "Heart of glass" by Blondie ^_^ These machines are proud of Italy!! (I'm italian!)
Similar to CR 78 sounds!
Great design & control!
I wish they could make these again
my first instinct with any digital thing i get (vsts bc i'm from brazil and everything costs a kidney) is to make them drone
thanks for having the same intuition, hainbach!
Excellent as usual
I think jean Michel jarre used it a lot on his early albums. You can still see the instrument in his studio
Paolo has a dope Devo shirt
Thank you Brady! We made a small run for our circle of friends!
i think this was used on Manuel Gottsching's E2 to E4 an album that was a huge influence on early House