I used that to make tracks with Hammerhead in the 90s. Some of my friends also did.<p>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.<p>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.<p>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.<p>For anyone who doesn't have Windows or can't install it, here's a video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4aaBzyH7hU" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4aaBzyH7hU</a>
There is a 2021 iOS version <a href="https://apps.apple.com/de/app/hammerhead-rhythm-station/id1568699989" rel="nofollow">https://apps.apple.com/de/app/hammerhead-rhythm-station/id15...</a>
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.<p>Bram Bos also made moonfish as a sequencer, using the same UI style as hammerhead
<a href="https://archive.org/details/moonfish12" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/moonfish12</a>
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.
Heh, I remember playing around with Hammerhead back in the 1990s. Nothing came of it, but it was fun.<p>Sadly, the download link appears to be broken. :-(