You may not know the 808 drum machine, but you have definitely heard it: the original Roland TR-808 was the first programmable drum machine and has been a mainstay of electronic music ever since.

It’s not just a device for looping stored audio, though. There’s also a drum machine built in which can record and loop beats with varying sounds and pitches, as well as a sample slicer and a ...

as well as copying its sounds and those of my LM-1 and Linn9000 drum machines," he says. "I took it apart and it even copies much of my LinnDrum sound generation circuit, even my bad ideas like ...

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