Exploring the Roland TR77 / Roland Rhythm 77

We thought we’d make a video before shipping out this beautiful drum machine. It’s one of our very favourites: it holds lots under the hood, it’s a joy to play around with and the variety of rhythms and poly-rhythms frankly seems kind of endless. The 2 and 4 beat section, which is a matrix of independent patterns, is a a cool and unique add-on that Roland incorporated in a few of its very early drum machines. The individual drum-sound volume-controls gives you just enough sound sculpting possibilities to not care that the machines is not programmable. The drum sounds themselves are wonderful, woody and organic awhile at the same time analog and electronic. Vintage Audio Institute is a gear vendor and recording studio in the hills of Florence, follow us on here if you like this kind of stuff, lots more to come.