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...
In 1989 Yamaha launched the V50 - a digital workstation featuring an FM synthesis core, a PCM rhythm machine and a sequencer. The 61-note keyboard supports aftertouch and is velocity sensitive. This is a 4-operator FM workstation with dual effects which...
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...
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 Swedish company Elektron, known for its high-quality drum machines and synthesizers, said that sampling is a dying art. Therefore, in 2011, the manufacturer released Octatrack DPS-1, which is an 8-track dynamic performance sampler and sequencer 2 in...