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There is nothing less relevant in regard to a drum machine than whether it is analog or not.

kuroichi wrote:

roland4387 wrote:Kick, snare, and toms are analog. All the rest are 8 bit samples.

looking at your equipment list and reading this just confused me.....

It did? Why?

roland4387 wrote:

kuroichi wrote:

roland4387 wrote:Kick, snare, and toms are analog. All the rest are 8 bit samples.

looking at your equipment list and reading this just confused me.....

It did? Why?

I thought you would've known that the claps, and rim were analog... youve got all the 'classics', plus roland in your name....

The DAC circuit in the 909 for the HH is really a marvel of Roland's "how cheap can we do this?" engineering. There is a good analysis of it here ( http://hardware.freepage.de/cgi-bin/fee ... hatand.htm ) for those not familiar with the circuit.

kuroichi wrote:

roland4387 wrote:Kick, snare, and toms are analog. All the rest are 8 bit samples.

I thought you would've known that the claps, and rim were analog... youve got all the 'classics', plus roland in your name....

There are a lot out there who own Roland gear, but don't necessarily know much about the inner workings of them.

If you really wanted to be pointlessly geeky about this question, you could point out that the 909's cymbals are a combo of sample-based and analogue synthesis: 909 Cymbals breakdown

But ultimately, who cares as long as it sounds good? (unless you're planning to mutilate your drum machine with a soldering iron and a bunch of pots...)

Isn't the entire purpose of this forum to be "pointlessly geeky"?

That's why I like it

Syn303 wrote:

kuroichi wrote:

roland4387 wrote:Kick, snare, and toms are analog. All the rest are 8 bit samples.

I thought you would've known that the claps, and rim were analog... youve got all the 'classics', plus roland in your name....

There are a lot out there who own Roland gear, but don't necessarily know much about the inner workings of them.

I'm definitely one of them. I look at it this way, I've had three cars in my life and have probably driven 500,000 miles, but I couldn't tell you where the spark plugs are if my life depended on it.

Kuroichi, I updated my gear list for ya, got rid of the 909 a long time ago for the 999.

roland4387 wrote:
I'm definitely one of them. I look at it this way, I've had three cars in my life and have probably driven 500,000 miles, but I couldn't tell you where the spark plugs are if my life depended on it.

Ha ha ha, I see your point.