anyone know what i just bought

[selfpreservation]

i just bought this does anybody know what the drum machine is ive never seen it before and it sort of looks programmable cause of the 16 steps at the bottom and it looks to be modded with a din sync in , i havent a clue what it is

[moordenaar]

Something analog ?

[selfpreservation]

Something analog ?

nice one sherlock 

[electoyd]

MMM looks very interesting-looks like a lot of diy has gone on there.  Quite hard to tell, did this start as a rack mount?  I'm presuming the square brown buttons maybe trigger drum sounds then you tap them in using the 16 steps at the bottom. Haven't actually seen something specifically like this but have seen some like it.  Most importantly does it work?  any official markings on it, or did they take the original box off when they rehoused it in the wooden box.  You might need to do a wee bit of work on it yourself to rehouse it to get it down to a reasonable size, it looks massive and i doubt would slip into your studio, unless you have a v.big studio.  The bit where the din sync has been fitted, have they just punched a hole in the case?  its quite hard to tell whats there, could you take a close up of the front, without the speaker.

[Circuitbenders]

Thats a rehoused percussion section from a crappy home organ if ever i saw one

[selfpreservation]

i havent got it yet i was hoping someone can identify it cause i love my drum machines and ive never seen it before , im actually gonna get him to rip it out of the cab and just send the unit he can keep the gubbins , i think you might be right paul but it looks like it could be programmable and im intregued as to what the din socket is about , it was cheap ive asked for some more photos so hopefully they will shed some light i

[Circuitbenders]

at the risk of sounding like s-cat, imagine the money making potential of this? You buy atrocious home organs from your local tip, pull out the usually analogue percussion section, stick it in a new case and whack it up on ebay as some kind of rare analogue percussion monster.

This thing has got to have more music making potential than a Boss DR55, and they sell for absurd money.

If only i could be bothered....................... 

[untune]

Hehe I was thinking the same, apart from the ebay bit... Something like this does actually look quite cool, and you can imagine it'd be good for a busker if they've got a little drumbox to cart round with them

[Gordonjcp]

If you're going to kill some old 70s organ, make sure you save the keyboards!  They're quite often insanely high-quality, all palladium-plated contacts and stuff.  They were a sizeable chunk of the purchase price when they were new.

[selfpreservation]

yes it is indeed a crappy organ drum module got some more pics and what i thought was 16 steps at the bottom ie a sequencer i think is lights for key change indication so i dont think ill bother , intresting POS though 

[Gordonjcp]

So have you actually bought it?  You may be able to drive the sound generators with an Arduino or similar if you really want to be programmable.  You never know, it might be pretty cool as it is - my old Yamaha organ has some settings where it can be coaxed into a kind of cheesy minimal techno thing ;-)

[selfpreservation]

no gordon i didnt bother its in cambridge and im in devon and its big , i woulda sent a courier but its jus not worth it

[untune]

I think it's a cool idea in principle either way... a small analogue drum box... I have a little practice guitar amp that would be a good candidate

[selfpreservation]

or you could just plug the drum machine into the amp and save yourself a load of bother   

[untune]

Hahaha, and by the same principle, instead of circuit bending you might aswell get a toy keyboard, stamp on it a few times and run it through a broken distortion pedal