RAM Music Machine was a hardware add-on for theZX Spectrum andAmstradCPC 464/664[1][2] released in 1986.[3] It was more advanced than the earlierSpecDrum and it could play melodysamples,drum patterns or be used as anecho machine. One could sample sounds in 19,444 samples a second and use them.[4] It also hadMIDI ports to connect tosynthesisers.[5][4] By 1990 the hardware was advertised with a price of £50.[6][7]
Notable users include a teenagedAphex Twin.[8]