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OK, Mousketeers, the party's over. Put away your Fanner 50 cap guns and listen up. Uncle Matty Mattel has got a new gizmo fresh from his hidden laboratory, and this one ain't no toy. It's called the Synsonics Drum, and it's a computer-controlled machine that produces realistic drum sounds and stores them in memory banks, then plays them back exactly as you recorded them.

November 1, 1982
Allen Hester

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SONIC SPICE

Allen Hester

OK, Mousketeers, the party's over. Put away your Fanner 50 cap guns and listen up. Uncle Matty Mattel has got a new gizmo fresh from his hidden laboratory, and this one ain't no toy. It's called the Synsonics Drum, and it's a computer-controlled machine that produces realistic drum sounds and stores them in memory banks, then plays them back exactly as you recorded them.

Big deal, sez you. So it's another drum machine. Lots of people make those. True. But they don't have actual drum pads—four of them, neatly arranged like an electric stove—that are touch sensitive, and they aren't all programmable, and none of the programmable units on the market nowadays are anywhere near as inexpensive as this thing. It only costs 150 bucks!

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