80's Dancehall Riddims: Snare drum sound

[interruptor]

The sample set is from the site http://samples.kb6.de which is a great resource for drum samples.

[MarkyP]

11 years on again and I dig it out and revive it as a newcomer to this wonderful place.

Firstly I'd like to say a big hello to everyone here.

I am curious to know if the OP ever did manage to track down the snare that they were aiming for or if they possibly improvised their own in the end.

I myself am just getting started dabbling in the magical sound of 80s dancehall. I'm not new to producing on computers but I am new to the reggae, dancehall and dub production scene. I have loved reggae and dancehall since the early nineties and adore the early electronic Steely & Clevie sound mainly coming out of Jammys studio at the time.

So on my journey I am aiming to reproduce that sound of Steely & Clevie just to get me started and see where it takes me. I'm not into copying or plagiarism nor do I rate doing so at all but there is just something so magical about this sound I feel overwhelmed to make it happen again 40 years on.

I wish I had the money to get myself an Obie DX, a DX100 and a CS01 but as I write this the price of such equipment would cost somewhere in the region of £2000 so I shall be using their digital counterparts or their most closest resemblance I can get.

I'm really looking forward to searching, asking and hopefully digging up some golden nuggets of information regarding the production of the best kind of music ... REGGAE.

[colinrobot]

@MarkyP Behringer are not far off releasing their clone
https://www.musicradar.com/news/behring ... m-linndrum

Probably around the same price as the RD8 & RD9 drum machines they released

[colinrobot]

Found two places for Yamaha RX5 and Roland R8 as the links are dead above .The links go to a Reddit page and a site called Boxed Ear (On this site right click on download button and open in new windows to download pressing the button doesn't seem to work)
I've downloaded both myself and are safe.



https://www.boxedear.com/free.html

If you don't use Bitwig on the Reddit download just download the top folder (Samples Only)

[colinrobot]

Here's another site for LinnDrum samples

https://www.drumkito.com/sample-packs/l ... mple-pack/

[colinrobot]

Here's a DMX free sample pack too

http://www.dubsounds.com/dmx.htm

Hope these help anyone who found themselves here..

[interruptor]

Thanks for the new links!

Most pages disappear after some years. One big exception is this archive which exists since 28 (!) years..
http://samples.kb6.de
Unfortunately they had to remove all samples by Roland who fiercly protect the copyrights of samples from their legacy products.
I am surprised Roland also clamps down on samples recorded from analog gear like the original Jupiter/Juno synths or the tr-808 and tr-606. Probably, offering a sample pack and using the name "Roland" to describe it is already an infringment of their rights.

[Fieldrecording]

Yes I was reading the post they made on KB6 site. It's a shame as it's not just about the samples but a history of Drum machines and the sound they made. Crazy that Behringer got away with the RD-6 RD-8 and RD-9 but probably easier to put a takedown order on some samples than a big law suite .
A big thank you to yourself for everything you do on this site

[Fieldrecording]

Another Free Library

https://reverb.com/software/samples-and ... collection

[interruptor]

Yes, crazy that Behringer gets away while KB6 didn't. Maybe they should just rename their Roland samplesets "Behringer RD-8" etc. and reupload them..
Or some fantasy name like "Robert 8"

Yes I was reading the post they made on KB6 site. It's a shame as it's not just about the samples but a history of Drum machines and the sound they made. Crazy that Behringer got away with the RD-6 RD-8 and RD-9 but probably easier to put a takedown order on some samples than a big law suite .
A big thank you to yourself for everything you do on this site