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The Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer, commonly known as the 808, is a drum machine manufactured by Roland Corporation between 1980 and 1983. It was one of the first drum machines to allow users to program rhythms instead of using preset patterns.
THE SOUND. The goal for the new machine, now called the TR-808, was to include realistic-sounding drums. Memory chips (needed to play back sampled recordings of ‘real’ drum sounds) were too expensive, so the engineers used analog synthesis to recreate the sounds—initially on Roland’s System-700 modular system before recreating the ...
ARTS & CULTURE. The TR-808 Drum Machine Changed the Sound of Pop Music Forever. Sometimes, technology has more impact after it’s obsolete. Hanif Abdurraqib. July 2020. The sequencer on the...
The Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer, commonly known as the 808, is a drum machine manufactured by Roland Corporation between 1980 and 1983. It was one of the first drum machines to allow users to program rhythms instead of using preset patterns.
HISTORY. TR-808: the history, the sound and the present. Original TR-808. Few instruments have influenced modern music like the TR-808 Rhythm Composer. The all-analog 808 is most famous for its big, booming bass drum ‑ an intimidating force of nature that can be felt as well as heard.
by Adam Douglas. 20 mins read. Few modern electronic musical instruments have had as wide and deep an impact as the TR-808. Not just on music, either. Of course, the 808 has been used in hundreds, if not thousands, of records as a beat machine. But it has had more of an effect than this.
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