And best of all, and very unlike many of the “competiting” samples, these samples are ABSOLUTELY FREE! Quite frankly, I feel this is the best overall sound sample set of the TR-808 to date. I feel these “808″ samples are of higher quality than any currently offered by commercial sample vendors. I feel these samples are of higher quality than those found in current commercial drum machines. With the right sampler, these “808″ samples can, for all practical purposes, make a real “808″ obsolete. Unlike a real “808″, with these samples one can have the certain drum sounds playing simultaneously that cannot do so on a real “808″, (Hand Claps and Maracas, for example.) as well as scale the velocities of the sounds, and even apply grooves and timing to the beat in a manner much more sophisticated and clearly beyond the capabilities of a real “808″. When put to proper use, these samples can be considered better than using a real “808″. I sincerely believe I have made major progress in narrowing the difference between owning a real “808″ and owning samples of one. dollar retail price at its introduction more than a decade ago ($1,000). dollar resale value today ($250 – $1,000) is often not too far off from its U.S. As a result, people still, to this day, are in hot pursuit of real “808″‘s, and its U.S. too “static” and too “limited” in variation) and simply do not do justice to the wide sound range the “808″ can produce. Because the “808″ is a truly “analogue” drum machine, with very many (22 to be exact) knobs for the settings for its drum sounds, sampling the unit often yields sample sets which are too discrete (i.e.

This has however, proven to be an often disappointing endeavour, due the the analogue nature of the “808″. In recent years, many electronic musical instrument companies (Roland and many others…) and studio engineer types have attempted to capture its timeless sound through the use of sampling. (The famous cowbell sound at the beginning of Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna’ Dance with Somebody”, or the famous bass drum sound that vibrates the ground when a car playing loud rap music drives by) Without a doubt, the Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer is a “classic beat box”. Since its debut in 1982, it has been the drum machine used the most by dance, pop, rap, and rhythm and blues artists to produce the drum rhythm tracks for their songs. The Roland TR-808 (popularly known as the “808″) is, perhaps, the most popular analogue electronic drum machine of all time. Samplepack readme file by Michael Fischer: Click here to download samples of a original TR-808 in WAVE format.

The 808 drum kit