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!

aske

September 22, 2010 @ 6:18 pm

WHERE IS JEFF MILLS ON THAT LIST?

KitKat

September 19, 2010 @ 8:32 am

An artist list is somewhat pointless for this classic machine. Better, who hasn't used it?

Beatrage

September 12, 2010 @ 6:49 am

This is without a doubt THÉ most solid drummachine for House and Techno the world has ever known. Everything is so simple, yet so amazing. The price those days was incredibly cheap, if you look at how it's priced now. My uncle got one in 2002 for 1300 Dollars, which was actually quite cheap!
To add for the artist list, Thomas Bangalter (1/2 of Daft Punk, 1/2 of Stardust) used this machine many times in productions of him. His EP's, Trax On Da Rocks 1 and 2 both contained out of TR-909 Drums.

cjbonecollecter

July 9, 2010 @ 5:32 am

have just got my own 909 a little while back ,and am chuffed 2 bits!!Im sorry, but anyone who wants to get that magical kick should just save up(plus the clap and snares, awesome!!).I think that the clones like the jomox are pretty cool, but the original just has that character. wicked!!

Simon Moore

April 29, 2010 @ 3:02 pm

Also if you like the handclap, there is no other machine (except the TR-808) that has the analog handclap that sounds different every time its triggered. Just very cool. Not to mention abouth the kick, rules period!

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