NAMM 2009 - Diabolical Devices TR-707

Who would have thought that twenty-some years later the Roland TR-707 would be back at the NAMM show? We're guessing nobody did until they saw the Diabolical Devices circuit mangled TR-707 at the Big City Music bigcitymusic BCM booth

The Diabolical 707 has a pitch control for every sound, various distortion and bit-squashing bends, plus a patch bay. The 707's patch bay can interact with other things like the Diabolical Devices circuit bent SK-1 or any of your CV-able gear. The great thing is that the original 707 sounds are still intact and can be completely brought back to stock. You can use it as a MIDI module too!

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Category:

Music

Tags:

• Circuit
• Bent
• TR-707
• Diabolical
• Devices
• bigcitymusic.com
• NAMM
• 2009
• Drum
• Machine
• Synth
• Analog
• Modular

[chaffel3]

I wonder if Diabolical Devices would do this modification again, hmmm

[bigcitymusic]

We are getting a few more later this week.  I expect that will not be around for very long though. ;-)

[fiftyfiveseventy]

Malekko booth?

[bigcitymusic]

Nope, it is the Big City Music booth. But Josh and Paul (from Malekko) have been around the booth, and we have all their great gear for everyone to check out.

[halfmonk]

what's really sick is that you can hear some guitarist wanking away in the background. the fucking namm show is the 9th level of hell.

[BigNickontheDrum]

circuit bending is strange in that you can't really learn how to do it - i have some knowledge of how to assemble and re-assemble circuits, but the patience and ingenuity to explore the board and find these tweaks is something you're born with i guess - I've tried circuit bending and I just don't have the patience! this is an incredible device, for sure!

[Babyblue57]

Sounds like my Commodore 64... Congratulations! :P

[remoman]

it sounds broken.

[zitosonic]

...and thats cool ?

[emptyskull2008]

the machine is great,whos this fool let loose on it???

[edenflux]

yes, incredible!!!!

[sweepstakes]

The generation of sound is based on (digital) ROM samples. While I believe the mixing (w/ the faders) was analog, it's misleading to call the whole machine analog. Its digital samples were its big selling point at the time it was marketed, a time when samplers were not cheap.

[bitleyTM]

Absolutely not.

The TR-707 was one of the first digital drum machines. It's 100% digital. All models after the 707 have been digital. The 909 was 50/50 analog/digital (the sounds).

[douro20]

The TR-707, like all early Roland sound machines, is analog.

[colourit]

Of course you can learn to do it. Its not a super power. Just go take apart something that wont cost you hundreds of dollars and figure out what makes a bent circuit a bent circuit. Then apply it to something that you can use to make music. Simple.