Hammerhead Rhythm Station (1997) (opens in new tab)

That brings back memories!!!

I used that to make tracks with Hammerhead in the 90s. Some of my friends also did.

I was too young to club in 1997, but I knew Prodigy. The "Jungle" preset showed the secret to the some Prodigy drum sounds. Being young I was quite late in the game, and that thrashy DnB wasn't fashionable anymore (everyone was into quieter DnB around the 2000s), but our teen group loved it and it was a blast to show it to friends.

I had one of the free DAWs from the time, but one of my pals used SoundForge to put drums together. Very time consuming but to be fair I was more productive back them than now.

When I interned at a professional studio, I also used it a couple times in customer tracks that required electronic drums. We had a Roland TR-505 I think, but some customers thought it sounded too 80s for the time.

For anyone who doesn't have Windows or can't install it, here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4aaBzyH7hU

There is a 2021 iOS version https://apps.apple.com/de/app/hammerhead-rhythm-station/id15...

Heh, I remember playing around with Hammerhead back in the 1990s. Nothing came of it, but it was fun.

Sadly, the download link appears to be broken. :-(

never forget what they took from us

So what's going on with "threechords.com"? The root page is full of broken links to sheetmusicplus, and this page says the editor is not associated with the developer of hammerhead. I mean, that was not uncommon for freeware/shareware 20+ years ago, but just sort of a funny mish mash of things here.

Aaaahhhh.... This brings back so many memories. Roland MCs, 808s, 909s, the RM1x. They were good times.

Bram Bos also made moonfish as a sequencer, using the same UI style as hammerhead https://archive.org/details/moonfish12

The highlight for me in highschool music class was learning to use Hammerhead for an assignment. I was horrible at the recorder and dreaded music class because of it, but creating beats was fun.