The TR-909 is an awesome analog drum machine! THE standard House and Techno beatbox. Sounds include kick, snare, hand clap, open and closed hi hats, low mid and hi toms, rim shot, ride and crash cymbals. Sounds are tweakable - attack, tone, tuning, decay, snap and accent. This machine does not sound like true acoustic drums, and we don't want it to. It has a unique and very loveable analog sound that's all its own!

It is armed with Roland's DIN Sync and MIDI, individual outputs, external memory cartridges, and an essential shuffle & flam for great grooves. Use it as a sound module or program patterns, songs and beats into it...either way you'll be in analog drum heaven with the 909!

Extremely popular today, especially for dance, it is used by 808 State, Air, Bushflange, Future Sound of London, Moby, Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim), Orbital, Hardfloor, Überzone, Underworld, The Prodigy, Faithless, ATB, Eat Static, Jimmy Edgar, Sense Datum, Richie Hawtin, A Guy Called Gerald, Astral Projection, Josh Wink, Freddy Fresh, Jean-Michel Jarre, Luke Vibert, the Chemical Brothers, and many more!

Jamie

May 22, 2013 @ 2:45 pm

I made a html5 emulator of the roland 909: http://html5drummachine.com/

Vin

May 15, 2013 @ 3:23 pm

Omg, i've just seen a TR909 for £2750 on gumtree, [beep] is going on, these where around £1000 new and rapidly came down to around £350, if someone buys that at £2750 they are as crazy as the person asking that extremely insane price, some people have more money than sense, nice machine but come on folks, LMAO.

Pawel

April 11, 2013 @ 6:45 am

I'm looking for TR 909 for some time now, if anyone is willing to sell their baby I can take good care of it, daddy will also pay good €€€ to whipe the sellers tears off :) cheers! Pawel pavoe@op.pl

Emmet Gunn

April 5, 2013 @ 5:57 am

jamsynth, how much would you be selling the tr 909 for?

Jamsynth

April 5, 2013 @ 12:00 am

Okay, I thinking of selling my TR 909. What??? Yeah, I think I'm crazy too, The machine has been stored for a couple of years now. The condition is good, it's a great machine. If you have every used a TR 909, you would think of selling it. I use to mix for film, television, video games, documentaries, so I have several pieces of equipment and sound effects libraries. I will probably sell my TR909 for a reasonable offer. I see there are none for sale on eBay...

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