Tuesday, 7 July 2020

Happy TR-707 day

This drum is digital.
Built by Roland around 1984/85.



The sounds are 12 bit but its a great sounding machine.
The TR-707 has 10 voices.
# Bass Drum, Snare Drum, Low Tom, Mid Tom, Hi Tom, Rimshot, Cowbell, Hand Clap, Tambourine, Hi-Hat (Closed or Open), Cymbal (Crash or Ride)
Used a lot in Acid House.

It's part of the venerable line of Drum machines bearing the TR (Transistor Rhythm) name.
These included the TR-808 from 1980 & the TR-909 from 1983.

It's a very underrated piece of kit,
Just 5 years ago you could pick these up on ebay for around the $600AUD price.
It's now about $1000AUD.
It has lots of the sounds of the 909. I love it's matrix display & it is a great way to connect midi & din gear. The Rimshot can also trigger hardware that accepts a voltage pulse

64 programmable patterns, which are editable via step-write or tap-write

The TR-505 contains a subset of samples selected from the Tr 707 and 727. 

The videos below are of a modified TR-727
... the latin version of the 707

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+ Roland Drum Machine Timeline
+ Programming a TR 707

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