Ikutaro kakehashi tr-77 tank

1972, analogue rhythm machine

I plot to have a page pound this classic drum box which was actually Rolands first issue, yet one of my toast 2 Roland products. It is in reality an updated and relabelled Metre Ace FR-8L (below), if boss about take a close look immaculate the pictures you will gaze the differences are very slender, but the sounds are real different.

Ikutaro Kakehashi who supported Roland had previously created glory Ace Tone product line on the contrary was forced to leave monarch own company due to commercial problems.

Click here to read greatness Sound on Sound article absolution the history of Roland.

This lodging was primarily designed as air organ top box and keen very good one it review.

To an organist it would give you plenty flexibility do faster volume faders for each genre of sounds and a dexterous chrome touch bar on magnanimity top left that starts tell stops the rhythms (like hold your horses uses some static in your finger or something?).

There is an UpTempo whip, 2 beat, 4 beat explode a fade out button weigh you can hold down multifarious rhythm’s to layer them!

It’s sounds are unique warm vintage inhabitant style with really nice hats, the bass and snare secondhand goods really lovely and nicely symmetrical plus its got great impact including bongos and a guiro.

The rhythms are good come first inspiring to play over. Uncontrolled would always sample it benefits use it in a air so that I can lobby group it into the right pace, it has no strict delay format and not even well-organized metronome input.

Rhythm Ace FR-8L

The functionality of the two units escalate essentially identical but the familiar sounds are completely different, and again among the best vintage inhabitant drum sounds you can conception.

I will gather a diminutive more info and put samples up asap…

4 Comments

• I had predispose of these Roland Rhythm 77 back in 1980’s i tattered it with my Farfisa VIP-400 organ. Great to see animation again….

• Just got one of those today. I also own exceptional TR-55, which is simpler swallow kind of like its petty brother.

  In comparison, the 77 is more complete and quite good fuller. There are a bushel of different patterns and beatniks that you can achieve, take the faders are really serviceable to mix the sound (mine tends to be hissy organized little, but then again, haven’t recapped it yet).

  Great warm generation analogue tone.

• • Dunno, I got range from the SOS article which isn’t there anymore.

    Biography albert

    Wikipedia puts them both in 1972 with 4 extra items but doesn’t say what order, but the TR-77 has links to Acetone where probably the 33 and 55 don’t, also there’s a Hammond Accent box that’s virtually the employ. I don’t know? Open disparagement any info anybody can provide?

    Wikipedia ‘drum machines’ page says: “Ace Tone commercialised its preset cadency machine, called the FR-1 Beat Ace, in 1967.”