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Tonebldr · Post by **Tonebldr** » Sun May 19, 2013 1:26 am

Driven Machine Drums: FR-909

This is a new capture/take on the ever popular TR-909, this time
combining outboard vintage NOS tubes and body compression in parallel.
Those signals are then combined and fed into a high-end mastering
equalizer to further glue, shape, and focus the sound.

The entire 549 sound collection in 16-bit, 44.1kHz WAV format is available here, complimentary.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tonebuil ... 7371933222

(no FB account required)

Enjoy!

Nathaniel

Tricky-Loops · Post by **Tricky-Loops** » Sun May 19, 2013 1:36 am

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Tonebldr · Post by **Tonebldr** » Sun May 19, 2013 1:54 am

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Nathaniel

AstralExistence · Post by **AstralExistence** » Sun May 19, 2013 2:41 am

hi. thanx for your generosity but most of the samples sound the exact same. is this because the tr909 is a simple drum synth? with all that outboard gear this should not be.

Tonebldr · Post by **Tonebldr** » Sun May 19, 2013 11:37 am

AstralExistence wrote:hi. thanx for your generosity but most of the samples sound the exact same. is this because the tr909 is a simple drum synth? with all that outboard gear this should not be.

Thanks. Yes, the TR-909 is a fairly simple drum synth in terms of available textures and range of modulation. I wouldn't necessarily call it simple in terms of components or analog design, there's many far simpler.

However, something like the Elektron Machinedrum is capable of a much wider variety of unique instruments AND a greater variation/range of textural change within each instrument.

And yes, many samples were chosen by me to stay within FR-909 for the purposes of round-robin programming should someone desire. I can assure you, none are exactly the same. Very very close to it. The differences are in the attack transient and decay phase, just like a TR-909. So, perhaps within FR-909, there may be 4-6 samples of the same knob setting but very subtle differences in the transient and phase.

As FR-909 relates to outboard gear... this is mastering gear. Not FSU gear*. The point is to clearly recognize it's a TR-909 while sounding better, louder, focused. It sounds like I like it, if I took each individual output into an $10k+ mastering chain... X10. Except now it's captured and ready to use in minutes for free. All-in-all, it took about a full-time effort of 6 weeks for the FR-909 specifically (including the Hi-Res format mapping, editing, pruning, etc)

(*however, I did drive the tubes harder than I would a master)

Dr.Mabuse · Post by **Dr.Mabuse** » Sun May 19, 2013 12:42 pm

Thought I'd just say thanks for your hard work. It is appreciated.
The samples sounds real sweet

snigelx · Post by **snigelx** » Sun May 19, 2013 1:26 pm

Absolutely, Nathaniel, thank you for the nice collections. You made mme so skeptical with the way you advertise your debut collection of samples, but now I understand that you were simply full of enthusiasm and confidence in your creation. I get a lot of use from all DMD collections. So, yeah, thank you and by all means continue.

I would like to say something about samples which appear to be the same sample perceptionwise when 'soloed' outsid eof a mix. What I recommend is to take your full core drum loop of an arrangement and switch out a particular drum with drums from a round-robin-ish organised collection of samples and THEN you will on a fair monitoring system be able pick out the subtle yet important differences between transients and decays. I am actually very impressed with sample providers who understand the importance of making shortcuts for producers like this. This kind of set is what I call really pro-minded because it attacks very important characteristics to make a good sampled drum sit well in a mixes. Wave Alchemy aare very good at this sort of organizing as well with some of their kits. So I definitely appreciate a set like this with multiple drums possessing the same general 'timbre' with varying transient/decaying behavior.

golden beers · Post by **golden beers** » Sun May 19, 2013 5:26 pm

another vote of confidence in Nathaniel's work from me (synth drums synthesist).

He truly understands audio.

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Sun May 19, 2013 5:50 pm

two days ago i was fretting for hours trying to pull some old 909 samples off a 90's pc. the next day i was delighted to find i'd recently d/l'ed the cr909 set, which quadrupled the amount of 909 samples i have. today is a good day for me!

golden beers - if you'd ever like to chat sometime..

question for anyone who wants to field it.. what happens then the 909 retriggers? eg. if a kick interrupts a previous kick, how is the signal picked up from the interrupted point?

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Tue May 21, 2013 6:22 pm

thanks for your free packs again, there are a good number of keepers in there imo.

also enjoyed them as a survey of analog signal processing... worth a scope by any aspiring dsp persons

Davias · Post by **Davias** » Wed May 22, 2013 7:58 am

Thanks for this free pack ! Sounds really nice, I'm having fun with it coupled with VB-303, instant acid !

Aiynzahev · Post by **Aiynzahev** » Sun May 26, 2013 2:42 am

Great, thank you for this!

GreenhouseMG · Post by **GreenhouseMG** » Sun May 26, 2013 5:53 am

thanks a lot!

Driven Machine Drums: FR-909 (549 FREE TR-909 Samples!!)