disco drum - a choice of rasta, funky, or disco beats . . . or would you really prefer the monotonous 'boom-boom' of other drum synthesizers?

disco drum elektor June 1984 Contemporary music is quickly reaching the stage where it is the rule rather than the exception to use computers, or at least synthesizers, as "instruments". Many people see this as unnecessary but would like a small degree of electronicization in their music. Guitarists have long been familiar with phasers, flangers, echos, and so on but another essential member of any group, the drummer, seems quite happy with strictly mechanical drum sticks. Now, to throw the cat in among the pigeons, we have designed an electronic drum for the drummer to play with. disco drum a choice of rasta, funky, or disco beats . . . or would you really prefer the monotonous "boom-boom" of other drum synthesizers? Figure 1. The circuit of the disco drum consists mainly of an envelope generator, triggered either by calibrated pulses pro- vided by another circuit (such as a metronome) or by the variable amplitude pulse output from the "drum" of figure 2, and a frequency and ampl...