Music Technology in the 1980s

What type of sounds did the Roland TR-808 drum machine use?

• Analogue

• Digital

What was the name of the technology which allowed digital instruments to communicate with each other in the 1980s?

Fill in the blank:

..... provide a way of recording control data that are read by electronic equipment and make them perform a given task automatically.

Which effect was discovered accidentally when recording this song by Peter Gabriel?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAzUh_H7yV0

What could the DASH recorder (1982) do which made it so important historically?

• Create audio samples

• Record audio digitally

• Create music videos

What was the name of the first digital synthesiser, produced in the early 1980s, as heard in the opening of this song by Chicago?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vXVoHXMaKg

• Korg Poly-800

• Roland Juno 106

• Yamaha DX7

In the mid-1980s, the Atari Notator appeared as a music production tool. What was it the first computer to enable musicians to do on a realistic budget? Listen to some of this song by Jean Michel Jarre from 1988 for an example.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE9VKZUoOf8