Publisher's Synopsis
The Guide to all the user-programmable drum machines that defined music in the 1980s. The Linn LM-1 and LinnDrum set the benchmark for user-friendly programmable drum machines that could be used for recording and live performance.Along with the emergence of the Synthesizer, the promo video, the haircuts, the fashions, the programmable drum machine was a must have for 1980s bands. Drumfax 2 features over 100 programmable drum machines from the 1980s decade, instruments that are heard on countless records from the era and that are also still used in the present day. The book has the Classic 1980s drum machines from the likes of the USA (Linn, Oberheim, E-mu, Sequential, MXR), the Japanese industry (Korg, Roland, Sound Master and Yamaha), and more obscure models manufactured in the Rest of the World.
