Alex Graham

Drumfax 3 Alex Graham

Drumfax 3 - the last part of the Drumfax series of books that chronicles the era of the Drum Machine being used in the modern music industry. Drumfax 3 provides information on drum computers, Grooveboxes and drum programming enhancement devices released between 1990-2019. The 1990s saw a noticeable decline in drum machines, as keyboard workstations and samplers negated the need for stand-alone drum machines, and the drum machine market was aimed more as a play along device for guitarists. By 2000, the high online auction values of the classic 80s units had seen the emergence of several new companies like Acidlab and Jomox offering clones of vintage units like the Roland TR-606/808/909. This would eventually prompt Roland to release a sonically compatible re-design of their original drum boxes for the modern age. Drumfax 3 contains information on over 80 drum machines (from Acidlab to Behringe to Cheetah to Elektron to Jomox to Roland and ending with Zoom) packed into 170 information-packed black and white pages.