Roland TR-55
Category: Products / drum machines / old analog drum machines
Added: 03-Feb-01 | Author: admin
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Roland TR-55
1972 brought us many things... Slade, T-rex and.. the TR drumbox... ladies 7 gentlemen, Rolands RHYTHM 55 (TR-55) circa 1972 - and you thought the TR drums started with the 808 eh ?... heh heh, what a monster this looks... here's Rolands release text from the brochure of the time... which explains things better than I ever could.. classic...
- Portable rhythm unit for the travelling musician.
- Electrostatic Touch start-stop switch.
- Up-tempo double-time switch.
- Diode flashes in time with the beat.
- You can mix your own sounds.
- Rhythm selectors: 10 buttons, waltz, slow rock, ballad, rock’n roll, beguine, rhumba, cha-cha, mambo, samba, bossa-nova
- 2 beat variations: bass drum, bass and snare drum, fox trot 1, swing 1, march, parade
- 4 beat variations: bass drum, bass and snare drum, fox trot 2, swing 2, swing 3, tango
- Voices: bass drum, low conga, high conga, cowbell, rim-shot, claves, snare drum, high-hat, cymbal, maracas
- Features: up tempo (double speed), touch start
- Controls: volume, balance, tempo, up tempo, power on-off, touch start
- Dimension: 130 (H) x 380 (W) x 235 (D) mm (5.1" x 15.0" x 9.3")
- Weight: 4 kg (8.8 lbs)
- Accessory: foot control switch, connection cord
heh heh... and this isn't even the first TR series drum box.. oh no.. that i think is the TR-33... anyone by any chgance used one of these, please leave your comments...
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Product: Roland - TR-55
Name: jay satellite
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Activity: part-timer
Date: 25-Jun-02
i own a roland tr-55 drum machine. i bought it in bowling green, ky for $20 at a flea market. it is a great peice of gear, very simple to use and it sounds amazing,i have used it on demos as well as final recordings. i have sampled the sounds to program my own beats. probably my favorite drum machine next to the old synsonics programmable i have.
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Product: Roland - TR-55
Name: TR-otsky
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Activity: Professional
Date: 02-Oct-03
Pull off the backplate and tweak the trimpots... you can get an 808 booooom bass (decay can be almost infinite, but you can't tune it - pity)
Typical Roland analog snare, hats, toms, claves. Beautiful.
It's big. Real wood and aluminum slabs. Tons of analog circuitry and trimpots. All preset, but hundreds of combinations and permutations, plus a very cool "mix" knob that adds much more variation.
Do I like it? Oh yeah!
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Product: Roland - TR-55
Name: aydýn
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Activity: Hobby-ist
Date: 11-Oct-03
how can i connect my yamaha rm1x tom my computer.? ps:ý have a sound blaster 128 digi thanks...
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Product: Roland - TR-55
Name: kevin
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Activity: Hobby-ist
Date: 27-Dec-05
Yeah I just picked one up at a pawn shop --I have to bang it periodical to get it out of oscillation.
sounds cool uptempo --especially through some pedals --big muff, roland phase II and a delay
really tempermental but cool.
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Product: Roland - TR-55
Name: Karl Courtney
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Activity: Hobby-ist
Date: 31-Mar-11
Does anyone have one of these for sale
if so
email djke20@hotmail.com
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