SampleScience has released TR-626 HD, a free sample library, created using the Roland TR-626 drum machine.
Each sound has been recorded in 32 bit 44.1kHz and down sampled to 24 and 16 bit for ease of use.
The sample pack is a free download, but the developer welcomes donations.
Here’s an audio demo:
Like we need any more new cold digital drum machines in the world today. Listen to your customers roland! Analogue is ALWAYS better. If you are a real musician like us synthtopia readers you need that warmth. Stop this va BS please
It’s OK because the 626 they sampled was modded to include wood sides.
“If you are a real musician like us”
Does real musician have to remind people that they are real musician? 😉
I find analogue boring…I rather like cold hard sounds …:)¨
analogue = boring
these sounds lovely, thank you!!!
My very first drum machine, bought new when I was 16. This thing. I hated it. It couldnt afford anything else once I had it. The sounds were just dire, suitable for nothing. Back then the idea that it held samples sold me on it. They were still novel back then. But bloody hell what a wedge of shite it was. I ended up using it as a pattern sequencer for multitracking . Sync it to tape and then use its Trigger out to the SH101, use the pads as sequence inputs for basslines on my CZ101. The 80s were a harsh time for the low waged synthesist.