SEQUENTIAL CIRCUITS TOM Vintage Drum Machine 1985 | HQ DEMO

This is one of my favourite vintage drumboxes.

The Sequential (Circuits) TOM is a great American drum machine - similar to the SCI Drumtraks. Also it could be the little brother of the Studio 440. It has a decent MIDI implementation and understands MIDI SysEx. The TOM's memory contains 8 samples; inserting a sound cartridge, you can have 7 additional samples. A shame, that it does not have individual outputs.

The crispy 8-bit samples sound great. The built in sequencer has a "tight" groove, it grooves like hell!
I don't mean the "shuffle" function (there is none). It has a very own timing, which makes you move... (like you can hear in the video).

In this video you will hear the following cartridges: "basic percussion", "special effects", "latin percussion" and "contemporary".

If someone wants to get rid of TOM cartridges, which I don't have, drop me a message ;-)

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[danielinsporto]

i'll just point out that there are places online where you can download the entire original sample pack from this and pretty much any other drum machine ever made. i know its not the same as having the thing in your hands, but it certainly is easier than trying to track down one of these babies

[AnalogAudio1]

@danielinsporto we all know about sampling. But having just the samples you have not the groove, the character, the possibilities and the inspiration of the original machine. It will always be a compromise. Many drum machines are much more than the samples/drum sounds they use.

[PlaySequence]

as an owner of one of these i can't recommend it to others. no individual outs?! severely limiting. drum sounds lack punch and are way too gritty. like not DMX-style gritty, unusably gritty. you can hear them in the video. trigger buttons are very bad and stiff, maybe mine need cleaning, but programming still sucks. weird nonstandard power supply so replacement will have to be from WCP. doesn't stack up to the Yamaha RX11 which came out a year before, IMO.

it's just not a very flexible machine.

[AnalogAudio1]

@PlaySequence

Is the Yamaha RX11 more flexible? I don't think so, I had one.

You are right, the SCI TOM is not perfect, it lacks individual outputs, swing function, it has only 8-bit sampling.

But it surely has more character - far more than the RX11, which has the cleaner sounds, but is rather boring without any sound editing possibilities at all.

[PlaySequence]

@AnalogAudio1 you're right, the RX11 has no sound tuning or reversing. but i think the sounds have a lot of punch and character, and they are not excessively gritty. individual outs allow you to process each sound the way you want. the RX11's pads are very comfortable, the layout the machine is intelligent and it has lots of sounds. LCD screen beats X/Y menu grid. if I were to make experimental electronic music I would use the Tom but i compose in lots of different genres so it's limited to me.

[AnalogAudio1]

@PlaySequence Well its a matter of taste... the RX11 is too clean to sound electronic and to bad for todays standards. If I wanted modern allround drums, I would buy a Boss DR 880.

[MrAirRobot]

That thing is tighter than a nuns pussy!

[fakfork]

are these sounds the factory presets or from the card.

if its the card, which one?

[Cosmovitali]

ooOOOLLdd sCCHHOOOoooL !

[harrymerchant456]

YOU can hear how it just doesnt have that special groove something of its sibling - The Drumtraks + the sounds are weaker

[astroboomboy]

@danielinsporto I just got this machine, and I have to say, man it takes like a minute and you got an awesome beat sounding just like you want, doing the same (at least for me) with a computer used to take at least 25.30 minutes, tweaking everything with a mouse or midi-controller just would take forever, and putting in midi-notes as opposed to just tapping every hit in, it just makes you flow and spend more time on playing!

[SimmonsDrums]

very good clap trap.

[boingboomchak]

Hey if u tune down the vocal sound on the efx cart it sounds like a moan was very handy in a mix i did back in the 80's of SOS and CHERELLE w JANET JACKSON.ENJOY

[7thvenom]

@MrAirRobot LMFAO YOU CRAZY SON !!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAH THE FUNNY THING IS YOUR SOOO

CORRECT IT IS SOOOOOOO DAMN TIGHT ITS ALMOST NOT FARE ...SOMETIMES I BET MY BOYS BEERS THAT THEY CANT MAKE A BEAT ON THIS OUT OF TIME ...THEY TRY BUT THIS THING ALWAYS CORRECTS WHATEVER THEY THROW AT IT AND SPITS OUT SOME KOOOL ASS SHIT CHEERS

[7thvenom]

@VacTrooper You can buy the cartridges @ wine country electonics in sanfran !!! cheers

[7thvenom]

@reggiebrown37 its ok record the mutha fucka strate and do it jack white style !!! cheers man

[7thvenom]

@900Turbo1996 NO SIMMON,S THEY JUST SOUND ALIKE.... U CAN GET ALL THE SOUNDS FROM THE

LINNDRUM  ALA PRINCE WITH THIS BUT THIS WILL CAST YOU $250 MY LINN COST ME $900