For hip-hop producers, the Roland TR-808 might be the staple drum machine; so many early hits were created on that piece of equipment, and its legacy has lived through today. For the electronic music ...

Introduced in 1983, the Roland TR-909 has shaped the history of electronic music, playing a starring role in the genesis of house and techno before being adopted by a long list of artists that ...

The Roland TR-909 drum machine, like other pieces of now iconic Roland gear, was not embraced by the masses when it came out. It received mixed reviews, and like the TB-303 before it, Roland scrapped ...

Roland has unveiled a pair of drum machines that recreate sounds from classic models like the TR-606 and TR-909, updated with modern features like real-time recording. The first model is the $400 ...

Roland ‘80s-era engineers must have felt a bit like Cassandra, the mythological seer that could foretell the future but to whom no one would listen. It must have been terribly frustrating to know they ...

Each year on September 9, the world celebrates 909 day, and if there were such an accolade as the king or the master of the iconic Roland TR-909 drum machine, it would be awarded to Jeff Mills.

Roland's Boutique line of synthesizers broke from cover last fall and today the company announced three more members of the series. Appropriately enough for 909 Day, the highlight of the trio is a ...

Exciting news for gear nerds as Roland seem to have started hinting at the return of the TR-909 drum machine next month. As FACT reports, the team at Roland are currently planning a special ‘909 ...

Roland is releasing official software versions of its two most iconic drum machines: TR-808 and TR-909 VSTs will be available to subscribers of the Roland Cloud service in the coming months alongside ...

Back in September, we paid tribute to Roland's TR-909 by looking at ill tracks made with this iconic piece of hardware, including Jeff Mills' "The Bells" (which also recently got love from Kill Frenzy ...

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