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Roland TR-505

Cheap sampled drums with a real sequencer

The 505 put PCM samples and the TR sequencer into a plastic box at a price that made it a first drum machine for a generation, and it turns up on more early house and hip-hop demos than its reputation suggests.

Category

  • Drum Machines

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

Made by

  • Roland

    Roland is a Japanese maker of electronic musical instruments, including synthesizers, drum machines such as the TR-808, and the JC-120 Jazz Chorus, a benchmark solid-state guitar amplifier known for its built-in stereo chorus and produced since 1975.

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