RAM Music Machine

{{Short description|Add-on for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC 464/664}}

RAM Music Machine was a hardware add-on for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC 464/664{{Cite news |date=1987 |title=Music Machine |pages=22–23 |work=Amstradbladet |issue=9 |url=https://www.cpcwiki.eu/imgs/4/46/Amstrad_Bladet8709022.jpg}}{{Cite news |last=Goodwins |first=Rupert |date=March 1987 |title=Music Machine |pages=64–66 |work=Amstrad Computer User |url=https://www.cpcwiki.eu/imgs/6/63/Amstrad_Computer_User8703_064.jpg}} released in 1986.{{cite news |last1=Waugh |first1=Ian |date=January 1987 |title=RAM Music Machine |pages=39 |work=Music Technology |issue= |url=http://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/ram-music-machine/223 |accessdate=30 September 2020}} It was more advanced than the earlier SpecDrum and it could play melody samples, drum patterns or be used as an echo machine. One could sample sounds in 19,444 samples a second and use them. It also had MIDI ports to connect to synthesisers.{{cite news |last1=Bates |first1=Jon |date=November 1986 |title=The Music Machine |pages=118 |work=Crash |issue=34 |url=https://archive.org/stream/crash-magazine-34/Crash_34_Nov_1986#page/n118/mode/1up}}{{cite news |date=March 1988 |title=Sample a byte of music... |work=Crash |issue=50 |url=http://www.crashonline.org.uk/50/midi.htm}} By 1990 the hardware was advertised with a price of £50.{{cite magazine|date=Dec 1986|title=RAM Music Machine|pages=58–59|url=http://www.muzines.co.uk/ad/150|magazine=Music Technology|publisher=Music Maker Publications (UK), Future Publishing.|location=United Kingdom|access-date=2023-06-26}}{{Cite news |date=March 1990 |title=RAM Music Machine |pages=35 |work=Crash |issue=74 |url=https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/magazines/pages/crash/74/35}}

Notable users include a teenaged Aphex Twin.{{cite web|last=Noyze|first=Dave|year=2014|title=Aphex Twin SYROBONKERS! Interview Part 1|url=http://noyzelab.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/syrobonkers-part1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141103131334/http://noyzelab.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/syrobonkers-part1.html |archive-date=2014-11-03 }}