Roland’s TR-1000 is the ultimate drum machine

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It took mode excessively long, but Roland yet caved and gave the radical what they want: a due analog successor to the iconic TR-808 drum machine. The 808's sound, especially the kick drum, is embedded truthful deeply successful the DNA of modern music that it would beryllium a gross disservice to try and boil its influence down to a single sentence oregon a list of artists. (Note: Not each of the songs linked needfully usage an existent 808, but they astatine slightest diagnostic samples oregon approximations of its sounds.)

But, successful emblematic Roland fashion, the institution didn't just re-create immoderate iconic analog circuits. No, the TR-1000 besides has integer emulations of different classical Roland d …

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