What new booty have you acquired? (Page 54 of 189)

Just taken delivery of a MAM RS3.  It's beatiful.  I can't believe the sound it makes.

I been semi after one of those for a while. The MAM vocoder is cool sounding. I used it for the first time in ages a few weeks ago. Fat raw sound.

I bought another Yamaha MR10 because it was only $40. I paid three times that for my first one so I couldn't say no.

http://www.keyboardmuseum.com/d_machines/mr10.html

Found a Vimeo video that had one MIDI'd. You can be damned sure one of mine will be getting the treatment soon.

http://vimeo.com/1975697

With analog drum machines starting to get nutty expensive this one is still a deal, I've never seen one for more than $150. I've seen about six on Ebay in the past year and generally they sell for about $100 US.

of course you can compare them.. they were direct competitors back in the days. both are early sample drum machines (probably 12 bit) with midi, individual outs and sync. yeah, rolands are easier to program with the display, but the DT sounds better (heavier) and as a big advantage, the sounds can be tuned. its also built a lot better than the plastic roland, although roland's OS is way more stable.. my drumtraks tends to do random tuning and volume stuff sometimes. you can get a drumtraks to sound very colse to a 707, but not the other way around..especially not with the tuned sounds..

Also you can put your own chips with your own sound or just different sounds tha you can buy form sequential inside the drumtraks. Anyway, al those advantages of the drumtraks makes it less compareable with the 707 imo, even tho you can make the Drumtraks sound like a 707.

First disclaimer is that I've never used a drumtraks before, but generally I've found older Sequential Circuits equipment to be pretty poorly built compared to Roland equipment. I think the 707 while appearing plastic, will probably last longer than the drumtraks. A lot of people on this list probably own Pro Ones and could talk about their poor build. I own both an SH101 and a Pro One and the SH101, while plastic, is in perfect working order but the Pro One suffers from a few bad build problems affecting the triggering of the notes (and this is a j-wire one), a grounding problem that had to be fixed and a dodgy pot or two.

I think most of the older Roland stuff will outlast  other classic synths. Any other opinions?

Well the Drumtrax is pretty though in a metal case not like the Pro One

400 is okay - has it midi in, out an thrue?

I got a 707 today - now testing.

first impressions are that the sounds are fuckin beefy. definitely. its pretty small and seems quite plasticy but in a day ive gotten used to the whole 8 vs 16 thing. Id say so far its very worth the money for what you get. Ive just been playing it on its own since I got it though. Going to delve further tomorrow.

I Just bought this and It's my first synthesizer and the first time I hear analogue straight out of the box.
i shure won't sleep tonight.

edit: btw only 250 eurolands. worth every cent.

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It must be 707 day today, I have one making it's way to me via Germany's finest postal service........oh no wait it's DHL.