Presented in 1980 by the Japanese manufacturer Roland TR-808 rhythm machine actually seemed to be, doomed to failure at the very beginning of its journey. It was the main competitor to the so much superior LM-1 Drum Computer on the market. Compared to...
Digitakt is an 8-voice drum machine with a powerful sequencer. The sample-based drum machine offers 64MB sample memory and you also get 1GB of built-in storage. Each track has a multimode filter and an assignable LFO available. The instrument provides...
The release of the hybrid drum machine Elektron Analog RYTM took place in 2014. Its clue feature is the 8-voice analog core (with digital envelopes, LFO, noise generator), which is often absent in most drum machines today. It has 12 velocity sensitive...
TANZMAUS was released in 2016, along with TANZBÄR LITE. The instrument served as a reboot of MFB 503 and 522. TANZMAUS, as well as its brother "LITE", was developed under euphoria brought by the legendary TR-808 and 909, but anyway there was some...
Roland TR-626 became one of the very first full-digital drum machines which are based on compressed PCM samples – it also the latest unit of the famous TR series. It is an updated digital version of the classic TR-606 and TR-505. The design is very...
The Korg volca kick is a compact, analog kick drum synthesizer. It features a simple, intuitive design with a powerful sound engine that allows users to create a wide range of kick drum sounds. The volca kick has a built-in sequencer, allowing users to...
If TR-808 was the "rhythm" godfather of hip-hop and electro music, then TR-909 meant the same for techno and house music. TR-909 was released 3 years after its predecessor, which offers an partially analog and kind of a hybrid sound generation. After a...
The sound of this synthesizer of Roland Boutique series is emulated applying the ACB technology - Analog Circuit Behavior, i.e. it differs significantly from the original device (TR-909), in contrast to the modern copies of old Roland drum machines...
Shadowed by more famous colleagues, TR-606 strikes back. The release of a miniature box with huge potential took place in 1982. Like its colleagues bathing in fame pool, the drum machine generates its sounds with a simple analog circuit. At first glance,...
LinnDrum, or LM-2, went into production in 1982. LM-2 is an updated version of the LM-1, with added crash samples and cymbal rides. Unlike Roland TR series, the drum machine used 28-35 kHz samples of real acoustic drums. Thus, LinnDrum appeared to be a...
