From Lorne Hammond Sent Mon, Dec 24th 2018, 17:06
they were designed for solo and duo acoustic musicians playing in = lounges and pubs. remember back when every bar had a musician with a = microphone and an acoustic guitar? And no canned music? pre-DJ. It started as those long designed to sit and do auto accompaniment for = the tops of more inexpensive home organs and then the lounge musicians = dragged a few to the bars but asked for something a bit more compact=20 and square to sit on narrower guitar amps and asked for an autofill = switch and then a fade in/fade out. One man band, and then the many = failed experiments in making an autobass machine as well, hello failed = product TB-303 which was supposed to be a string bass (we all laughed at that). We are = talking cocktail lounge small 40-70 people places that were quickly = gutted for Disco. Fire that musician, get me a mirror floor and lights. The Wurlitzer Sideman said it all except portability. Minpops, = doncamatic.=20 Lorne -----Original Message----- From: A. Horton <xxxxxx.xxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>=20 Sent: December-24-18 8:42 AM To: AH <xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> Subject: [AH] What did Roland etc. think the real-world use for drum = machines was, pre-dance music? (calling old heads) I recently got a CR-8000, and it is absolutely lovely. Along with other = machines I have or love like the TR-77, CR-78, etc. it's insanely = well-designed with the auto-fill functionality, crash cymbal reserve, = etc. What did the manufacturers really think these were being used for? What were they designed FOR? Outside of Sly Stone and some more niche = artists, you really didn't hear these things in recorded music. Did = Roland et. al. think that these were being sold purely for practice? For recordings? For electronic music? For traditional music? For = cocktail acts?