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!

acid

November 18, 2008 @ 3:10 am

its kick will punch you hard! thats the best drum i own and never i'll get tired of it!

Rusuden

September 11, 2008 @ 9:21 am

The thud that shook Earth... No one can mistake that BD. It's fat and punches you in the heart. Roland got it right with this one. The 909 is the king. The other analog sounds are great too... In the hands of Jeff Mills, this machine becomes magic. I also love the tracks by Larry "Mr. Fingers" Heard, where he used the 909. ... My only gripe with the 909 are the sync issues. Under Eprom v1, there's a slave sync problem... so it's usually best to make the 909 the master in a midi set up. Also, wish it had a Din out port. But those are minor complaints.

Joey jo joe

September 7, 2008 @ 9:24 pm

I know Radiohead used this on In Rainbows. It's possibly the greatest drum machine ever

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