Engineering:RAM Music Machine

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Short description: Add-on for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC 464/664

RAM Music Machine was a hardware add-on for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC 464/664[1][2] released in 1986.[3] It was more advanced than the earlier SpecDrum and it could play melody samples, drum patterns or be used as an echo machine. One could sample sounds in 19,444 samples a second and use them.[4] It also had MIDI ports to connect to synthesisers.[5][4] By 1990 the hardware was advertised with a price of £50.[6][7]

Notable users include a teenaged Aphex Twin.[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Music Machine". Amstradbladet (9): pp. 22–23. 1987. https://www.cpcwiki.eu/imgs/4/46/Amstrad_Bladet8709022.jpg. 
  2. ↑ Goodwins, Rupert (March 1987). "Music Machine". Amstrad Computer User: pp. 64–66. https://www.cpcwiki.eu/imgs/6/63/Amstrad_Computer_User8703_064.jpg. 
  3. ↑ Waugh, Ian (January 1987). "RAM Music Machine". Music Technology: pp. 39. http://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/ram-music-machine/223. Retrieved 30 September 2020. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Sample a byte of music...". Crash (50). March 1988. http://www.crashonline.org.uk/50/midi.htm. 
  5. ↑ Bates, Jon (November 1986). "The Music Machine". Crash (34): pp. 118. https://archive.org/stream/crash-magazine-34/Crash_34_Nov_1986#page/n118/mode/1up. 
  6. ↑ "RAM Music Machine". Music Technology (United Kingdom: Music Maker Publications (UK), Future Publishing.): 58–59. Dec 1986. http://www.muzines.co.uk/ad/150. Retrieved 2023-06-26. 
  7. ↑ "RAM Music Machine". Crash (74): pp. 35. March 1990. https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/magazines/pages/crash/74/35. 
  8. ↑ Noyze, Dave (2014). "Aphex Twin SYROBONKERS! Interview Part 1". http://noyzelab.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/syrobonkers-part1.html. 



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