Brootle RZ1 Drum Samples

Welcome to our Casio RZ1 raw house/techno sample pack. This is a sample pack of one of my favorite drum machines of all time. A sample pack for both house and techno producers, with added techno rumble subs too….

The infamous 1980s drum machine made famous by raw and jacking Chicago house tracks like Steve Poindexter – Work That Mutha F**cker. Here there are two drum kits from this machine, desk-driven and with beefed up kicks. As well as added techno-style rumbles (sub basses made from the kick and reverb) for each kick. There’s also more rumbles made from the mid and low toms for each kit. This sample pack contains 30 samples (two full drum kits of 15 samples, both processed differently). One of the kits is pitched down, which I love to do with these lo-fi digital sample based drum machines, as it adds to the digital grit of the original.

Here’s a preview of the pack:

See also: our free 808 Drum Kit, Free LinnDrum Kit, and Free House Kick Drum Sample Pack.

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How I Made This Drum Kit

The RZ1 is digital, low-bit rate dream drum machine for raw house music. It doesn’t synthesize the drums, but plays samples. It was made in the 1980s and the samples are digitally distorted because of the technology at that time. sample are recorded on to eproms. They are low bit rate and digitally crunchy. When the samples are distorted or saturated it’s character comes out even more, and has been used widely in raw jacking house music workouts for this reason. For this sample ack I’ve saturated the samples and I’ve added extra sub bass sample from processing the kicks and toms with reverb (a.k.a. techno reverb rumbles). This way you get big booming techno-like sub basses in key with the main drums.

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