The Roland TR-1000 Rhythm Creator is a direct successor to the famed TR-808 and TR-909 drum machines, each anchoring entire genres of 20th-century pop music and EDM. It's analog, it's aesthetic, and it was made with extensive input from the musicians who use the originals day-in and day-out. Here's Roland Product Leader Peter Brown:

Satoshi Tomiie had a modded 909 with a great sound character. We studied and compared it to our analog and digital prototypes. We also listened to units that had strange character—not modded, but for whatever reason, they came out of the factory sounding wonky.

There's so much subjectivity regarding what sounds "good" or "like a X0X." ACB's initial mission was to create a median sound with just enough control to achieve an ideal result. In the process, we bui

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