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INTRODUCTION
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CONGRATULATIONS!
You have just purchased a most powerful tool for synthesizer
composition and performance. The Oberheim DMX programmable
Digital Drum Machine represents a new concept in electronic
sound. The DMX has been designed by the Oberheim staff with the
idea of giving you better sound, and more intimate control of it,
than has been previously available in a percussion synthesizer.
The DMX generates the sounds of real drums. Recordings of real
drums are digitized, stored in computer memory, and are made
available at the touch of a button. A drumbeat may be recorded
in realtime at any speed, remembered, and edited to make any beat
of any length, tempo, or style—in short, any drum beat that you
hear in your head, you can create on the DMX. After you have
created your drumbeats, you can save them on tape for future use.
The DMX even has a battery to keep the memory on when the power
is off.
The DMX operates like a tape recorder: press RECORD and Record
your rhythms; then press PLAY and hear it back. But there's more
to it than that. There are many more features that are
incorporated into the DMX to actually give you much more control
over your music than a tape recorder gives you.
And isn't more control what synthesizers are all about?
