☆ Rare ☆ Elka Drumstar 80 – Italo Disco Drum machine + RAM Card and Manuals! The Italian Linn Drum!

We are selling this gorgeous Elka Drumstar 80, the italo disco drum machine, also known as the “Italian Linn Drum” (1985)! Very rare, fully functional and aesthetically in excellent condition. The serigraphs are perfect, cosmetically there are only few scuffs.

It comes with original Elka Drumstar RAM Cartridge (ultra rare!) + User’s Manual and Schematics (PDF)!

Serial Number: 021443

The Drumstar 80 is a great drum machine that combines a number of elements more commonly associated with high-end PCM offering from legendary units in the field such as the TR-707 and DMX along with a number of elements more commonly found on a number of early organ rhythm accompaniment boxes. It’s a drum machine quite unlike any other drum machine of the period.

At the more professional end of the scale, it features a full 12 individual outputs paired with 12 volume faders for each group of sounds, of which the Drumstar boasts an impressive 32 in total.

The unit features 20 separate rhythms (Disco, Latin, Cha Cha, etc...) each with 3 basic variations as well as a “Fill” and “Intro/Ending”, which brings us to user programming options which are restricted to a single programmable variation and fill per rhythm, which amounts to roughly 20 separate 2 bar sequences along with 20 separate 1 bar fills.

Programming itself is accomplished via a tap write method.

The sound palette encapsulates all the sounds one might expect to find in a drum machine of this era, namely Kicks, Snares, Toms, Hand Claps, Hi Hats and Cymbals as well as a number of less common additions such as Electronic Snares (with a sound approaching a Simmons unit), Congas, Bongos, Triangles, Cabasa, Cowbell, Clave and even Agogo Bells and Guiro.

The unit features MIDI: clock, in and out.

It is not just the range of sounds but the subtle variations of those sounds that lend this drum machine an edge over it's competitor.

This is your chance to get your hands on a truly legendary drum machine. Very hard to let this one go, but it's not getting enough use and it's just time to move on.

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