Roland TR-707 & TR-626 Demo

3 minutes on the Roland TR-707 & TR-626. Watch in high quality if you want to hear the kick and hats in all their jackin' glory.

For those of you interested in the more technical side of things here the 707 is running in step write and is acting as the master clock and the 626 is running in tap write as the slave. I'm using an SP-808 as a basic mixer which you can see down in the background.

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Music

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• Roland
• TR
• 707
• 626
• Rhythm
• Composer
• Jack
• Jackin'
• Chicago
• House
• Drum
• Machine
• TR-707
• TR-626
• SP
• 808
• SP-808

[francaisemusique]

is it just a simple case of a midi in out cable to midi sync these guys ?

[snolan1990]

@francaisemusique Yep just MIDI out on one to MIDI in on the other and the slave unit set accordingly.

MIDI is quite a simple system, the only thing that can make it a pain is setting up each unit to function properly with in a larger MIDI set up but that's only because each unit has a different interface for programming. The principals of MIDI remain straight forward.

[adamkobylarz]

are they midi synched? or just on the same tempo?

[snolan1990]

MIDI 707 is the master.

[jacobkay]

nice to see someone who knows how to use a drum machine

[basementdweller1]

It's nice to see someone who didn't circuit bend their hardware.

Hey does anybody know where you can get a tr-505. E-bay is going to be a last resort for me (got ripped off once).

[edoardomorellimusic]

very tasty and powerfull

[francaisemusique]

@snolan1990 ah thankyou :) yes i guess that could be a problem haha :) MIDI is such a fantastic invention though :D

[cinemaveritesound]

Woah a zip disk!

[xishimarux]

Sup New Order ;) Love this.

[snolan1990]

@PHAEDRIDER If you live outside the USA then you will very rarely find any synths in pawn shops because there are simply so fewer over here. I have been going to carboot sales and pawn shops for about 3 years looking for synths and all I have ever found was my JX-3P (which was actually about £10 more than the average eBay rate at the time) and my DR-110 which I got for £20 (which was a bargain). In the USA yeah you can find stuff locally but anywhere else you pretty much have to use eBay.

[PHAEDRIDER]

@snolan1990 exactly quickly means ebay . but i find that old equipment seems to be more satisfying when it comes from a thrift store ( like my arp odyssesy and juno 60 and EPS ) or from the swapmeet ( like my departed 505 and my soon to be sold dr 550 and my tr 77 ) or just randomly from a stranger who "happens to have a..... ( like my sh1000 and juno 106 ) or from a pawnshop ( like my polysix and tr 707) everytime someone buys one of these on ebay the price goes up for us patient people

[chrisgimeno]

I love old drumboxes!

[GanEdenAustralia]

@kingofkeyboards yes