Ruining My Most Valuable Drum Machine - CR78 -

I did exactly the same with my Dr. Böhm Drum Machine - wanted to have send/return to guitar pedals - but i was running in impedance problems as always... same with the automatic base witch i had to dimm down a lot, it workt finaly but getting noisy over all

🤯like always! Wishing you continued success with your museum, machines & contraptions.

That sounds awesome. It just needs a 303 splodged over the top.

SICK SOUNDS!

Banger!

Gary numan used this as his main drum sound on certain tracks. i would love one of these but alas , will have to mek doo wi the jdxi

I think you made a beautifully elegant modification with the switched jacks. Having the outputs in the back like that can only be called a massive improvement. Those that complain about it don't understand the value of these devices and look at them as just a collector's object rather than a musical instrument.

You make CR78 great Again 🎉🎛️🚀🚀🚀🔈🔉🔊🔊🔊🌀👏👏👏🙃

Proper dub

no computer were harmed in this video

That new reel to reel is coming in handy, well done on your music creations.

Synthfull pleasure

Thanks!

Awesome! I'd much prefer to see someone mod their hardware than it just sit on a shelf.

Get a JVC KB700 keyboard, it has an awesome cheesy analog rhythm box inside.

I love this machine

Great, Sam rediscovered Kraut rock. Now how are we going to break it to Hainbach?

Sound thinking. Now I want to see you live perform some finger banging with a 4x4 MIDI controller~

oh... I can't go for that, no can doo...

1 minute of any part of this video shows the unmeasurable amount of talent, skill, and knowledge you have.

Going from nothing to a song like that is overwhelming to the musically ignorant like me.

I like the bonus crash course in multitrack recording.

It gives a new lease of life to the old gal and makes it feel like whole new peice if kit.

OK building the song was pretty cool!

An orchestra maestro has nothing on you Sam! Brilliant work. And no, you didn't ruin your beloved drum machine, just made it better.

Congrats 90% of this is reversible apart from those jacks but then how else will somebody buy this at some point in the decades to come in wonder what those holes wore as the label has peeled off and the jacks have been removed.
I am certainly amazed that something this old could then have all of the drum signals broken out almost like a digital drum set!

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So cool to witness your process in creating a song!

Sam you are always creating !

Whenever I see a schematic I just nod along and pretend I understand the hieroglyphs 😅

Your “Ruining” gear is why we keep coming back lad 😂

Fuck! This mod is really awesome, man!
Nice work again.

Ridge Racer! ::opening music kicks in::

Watching you drill holes over the exposed electronics was way more alarming than anything else. The end result is grrrreat

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This is the kind of thing that would turn out really awfully if the person did not know their 'onions'. Sam does of course so its brilliant. !!

CR-78 owner here (1 working, 2 dead for parts). Never done the individual outputs mod -- to be honest I have nightmares dealing with the wire wrap posts for the sequencer board that I swore I'd never open my working one again after MIDIfying it. You've convinced me the individual outputs are worth doing. One other interesting mod might be a multiturn/Vernier pot for the tempo for fine control -- you can see one on Dr. Mix's CR-78. Not sure if it's a multiturn pot or it's just the knob that's fine control.

sick

I wonder if anyone else has ever done this? You could be making sounds never made before...

Awesome! Love it.

You need to collaborate with Simon the Magpie. You’re like long lost twins.

A drummer who uses drum machines. I’m shaking my head Phil Collins. Does anyone else see the irony here?

Excellent Groove, Plenty "Frumpy Enuff" and I like the high notes ! Cheers ! 😁

YOUR BEST SONG YET!!

Such a fantastic song! Am I starting to hear a „Berlin influence“ in your sound? So dark, I love it! All the best, Tobi

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