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Ace Tone Rhythm Ace FR-1

The preset rhythm box the whole category descends from

Ikutaro Kakehashi's Rhythm Ace played fixed patterns — bossa nova, waltz, march — from transistor circuits, with buttons you could press in combination. It was built to accompany organists, and it is the direct ancestor of everything below: Kakehashi founded Roland four years later.

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  • Drum Machines

    Programmable rhythm machines, drum synthesizers, and related beat-making instruments.

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  • Ace Tone

    Ace Tone was a Japanese maker of electronic musical instruments founded in 1960 in Osaka by Ikutaro Kakehashi, who later founded Roland. Ace Tone is best known for its portable transistor combo organs and early rhythm machines, and is regarded as a direct forerunner of Roland.

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