ROLAND TR-707 Vintage Drum Machine 1985
The Roland TR-707 is a classic programmable digital drum machine from 1985. This demo shows some of my own patterns and the programming.
Accent is programmable. It has MIDI and also the Roland SYNC-Interface. It has single outputs for the drum sounds. It also has a little built in mixer, which is very nice. The TR-707 has fifteen digitally sampled sounds and also shuffle functions.
The TR-707 was a staple in early house music, particularly with acid house. It was also used in the eighties in pop music.
New Roland sound library – lots of free stuff to download
Roland today introduced Axial – an official Roland sound library download site.
The site offers a variety of free sound libraries.
According to the company, “Axial is your home for an ever-expanding selection of unique and exciting new sounds for your Roland instruments.”
Axial currently features free sound libraries for these synths:
- Integra-7
- Gaia SH-01
- Jupiter-80
- Jupiter-50
Time machine: ROLAND TR-707 Vintage Drum Machine 1985
The Roland TR-707 is a classic programmable digital drum machine from 1985.
Accent is programmable. It has MIDI and also the Roland SYNC-Interface. It has single outputs for the drum sounds. The TR-707 has fifteen digitally sampled sounds and also shuffle functions.
The TR-707 was a staple in early house music, particularly with acid house.
Additional information:
A very underrated drum machine! It resembles the popular TR-909, and better yet, its hi-hat, cymbals, and clap sound almost identical to the TR-909! The TR-707 is a great source for cheap 909 samples. It has some other cool features too such as its Matrix display which clearly maps out your pattern for you in an easy to read display panel. It also features both MIDI in/out and DIN sync control – the best of both worlds. Why this unit even has individual outputs for each of its drum tones!
For programming, it features a shuffle and flam effect and its programming abilities are very impressive. But it does have its limitations, the only adjustment you can make to each drum tone is volume. And all of its other drum tones are boring (especially ride, kick and snare).
How to create the 1980s pop ballad sound
One of the typical keyboard-based setups that were used in the ’80s for ballads.
Moog Minimoog: synth bass
Roland TR-808: drum machine
Yamaha DX7: electric piano
Garageband Song sample loops to Roland MC-808 samples Convertor
This video demonstrates how a Garageband song created collaboratively using sample loops of Sweet Home Alabama on a mac and an ipad Garageband easily converted into a series of Roland MC-808 compatible sample loops and transferred quickly onto the MC-808.
1. The song is put together collaboratively using Garageband on the Mac and iPad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDIosK…
2. The samples are then extracted from the song using the fixed1t Garageband Archive audio sample extractor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhj88r…
The samples are then reviewed to check their type using the fixed1t audio samples data lister
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNMJEc…
The Samples are then converted into WAV, little endian files and renamed in line with the MC-808 fast sample loading convention, using the fixed1t Garageband to MC-808 sample convertor.
The video then shows you have to get the sample quickly onto the MC-808 and play them.
Please rate the video and leave comments.
Cheers fixed1t
New soundbank: Juno 2013 for TAL-U-NO-LX
Sounds for Synth has release a new soundbank, Juno 2013, for TAL-U-NO-LX containing 200 presets.
The soundbank is made with all electronic music genres in mind, drawing its main inspiration from Boards of Canada and Ulrich Schnauss. It features drifting keys and arpeggios, hypnotic techno lines together with lush, atmospheric pads and big basses, plus retro sounding 16th and 8th note basslines.
Here are some audio demos from the patch library:
Sound Demo: Behringer Echo Machine EM 600 & Roland Juno 106
Download WAV : https://www.box.com/s/r7s4w491slkg81g…
Roland Juno 106 played through a Behringer Echo Machine EM 600 Delay Pedal.
“Just some Juno noodling, and rather extreme settings on the EM 600, but that’s the way I like my delays 
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HTML5 emulation of the classic Roland TR-909
In celebration of the new(ish) html audio element, Jamie made a loose-emulation of everyone’s favorite drum machine: the Roland tr-909. As the drum machine runs using html5 audio, it will, unfortunately, not work on older browsers. For best results, use Chrome and be sure to click the like buttons!
Try it out here: http://html5drummachine.com
Via Matrix
Driven Machine Drums: FR-909, a free sample pack
Tonebuilder has introduced Driven Machine Drums: FR-909, a free sample pack featuring the sounds of the Roland TR-909 drum machine.
This is a new capture/take on the ever popular TR-909, this time combining outboard vintage NOS tubes and body compression in parallel.
Those signals are then combined and fed into a high-end mastering equalizer to further glue, shape, and focus the sound.The entire 549 sound collection in 16-bit, 44.1kHz WAV format is available here, complimentary.
The download is available from the Tonebuilder Facebook page (no Facebook account required).
Roland JP-8000 Orchestras and Ensembles
Background video description:
My patches. Some are tweaked factory and some are tweaked downloads. No external effects are used. A demo of the instrument, not a recital. No sir.
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