Roland is a popular brand in music instrument especially drums.
They produced not only manual drum, but also a drum machine, which is popular
in the hip hop music genre. One product
from Roland that will be delivered here is The Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer.
Usually, this machine is called as the “808”. The TR itself stand foe
Transistor Rhythm. It was one of the
first programmable drum machines in the world.
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| Roland TR-808 |
It was released in the early of 1980s, a few months after Linn
LM-1. At the beginning, it was used by musicians to make demos, but on the
reality they also used it in the recording for their music. The price is
cheaper than Linn LM-1; so many people consider this one is more reasonable
with its price. The TR-808 had a price of US$1,195 and Linn LM-1 had a price of
US$5,000.
The TR-808 sounds were used in drum and bass, R&B. house,
electro and hip hop. It was used in many form of electronic dance music. The
first band who uses this kind of drum machine was the Yellow Magic Orchestra
from Japan with their electronic music genre. This genre was good with this
kind of drum.
We can use this music
instrument in our recording, or performance. Usually, many musicians use it to
improve their music. In the further posts, it will be delivered many products
of drum machine and many reviews on them.
There is lots of
information for you in the internet before you buy this TR 808 or other music
instrument.
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