TOM FROM MARS

Factory & Custom Drums From the Drumtraks Younger Brother The Tom, also known as the Model 420 (😉), is an 8 bit drum machine released in 1985. It is the younger sibling of the Drumtraks, and offers up the same style of crunchy, early digital drum sounds that we've come to love. It is an 80s funk machine in a small, lightweight package. The Factory Drums The factory drum sounds are likely sourced from an acoustic kit, and sound similar to the Drumtraks, but while the Drumtraks likely stole samples from its predecessors, the Tom's samples are seemingly original - closest perhaps to a DMX, but more Lo-Fi.  Regardless, the kit just SMACKS and is great for less obvious, semi-acoustic sounding drum machine sounds. We captured 16 of the original sounds, at all 32 pitches, cleanly into our API console and Apogee Symphony MKII.  The Custom Drums But while the factory drums are great, they can only take you so far. So we loaded our TOM with custom EPROMs, starting with like-minded machines