Re: [AH] The mysterious heart of the Roland TR-808 drum machine

From Florian Anwander
Sent Tue, May 22nd 2018, 23:34

On 23.05.18 00:39 , Jesús Gallego wrote:
> Why the TR-808 was left behind while the CR-8000 carried on for a 
> couple of more years is still a mystery to me, 
The CR-8000 had a completely different targetgroup: lets call them the 
"piano bar background player". It was a preset machine with ChaCha, 
Tango, Waltz, you name 'em. It was a machine for music musicians
The 808 was directed to the technical interested musician. And the 
technical musician was completely into digital back then. (I remember 
well how I heard a Linndrum the firsttime, and immediately thought: I 
have to sell my 808 and get this wonder machine - thanks to heaven, that 
I did not do it ;-) )