I’ve looked out for one of these for years and am excited to know one’s in the mail and likely to land safe and sound within a week. A few resources found in anticipation of arrival:
Auto-Orchestra Rhythm Cartridge
COUNTRY FUNK DISCO REGGAE
P/N 637-4
Auto-Orchestra Rhythm Cartridge
LATIN
P/N 637-3
Auto-Orchestra Rhythm Cartridge
ROCK0B
P/N 637-2
Auto-Orchestra Rhythm Cartridge
COMM-.JAZZ
P/N 637-1
By the time I’d left for college I was familiar with the sounds of the Roland TR-909 drum machine. Daft Punk’s Homework (which had been only recently introduced to me) and it’s overt ode to the machine, Revolution 909, were on regular rotation. I could play reasonable emulations of the classic drums through my ROMpler. From the awe-inspiring (and GAS-inducing) liner photos of Fatboy Slim’s You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby I knew what the machine itself looked like. I’d never *seen one, though. Never experienced one…
