Roland TR-707 Rhythm Composer

A picture of Speed Dealer Moms gear before their canceled performance on the 26th April 2009. This is John's setup. Speed Dealer Moms is the side project of John Frusciante and Aaron Funk.

"J... Roland 808, 707, 606. I didn't have my 909 yet. There are also sequences from my predominantly Analogue Systems and Cwejman modular setup. We kept it really simple with the drum machines mostly using the one we used when first working on the song. J..."

"This is my beloved 707. It’s a custom made one from Diabolical, from the States. What they did is that for every single instrument - bass drum, snare, toms - they put different filters in, bit crush, and pitch as well. This one I sync to the 303. I've used it on a couple of tracks already, like my acid track '1010'. It's called actually '1010' because 707 and 303 added together. It's cool, like especially on snare and toms, it sounds really cool with that effect."

BT still adores his heavily modified Roland TR-707, the Roland TR-505, the Roland 505 and the Boss DR-550 MkII. "Anything with that many switches has to sound good," he says with a laugh.

In this photo there is TR-707 in studio.

SBTRKT posted this cryptic image to their Facebook page where you can pretty clearly see the Roland TR-707 Rhythm Composer.

This 1996 interview offers a pretty close look at Tom Jenkinson's "full time residential studio", as he refers to it. At 2:00 into this video, his Roland TR-707 can be spotted at the background with what appears to be a Roland Memory Cartridge present on the 707's respective slot. This particular piece of gear already visually appeared in his work previously. Tom also released a record under the alias "Chaos A.D". The album is named "Buzz Caner", and features a pretty curious cover (link: http://quimby.gnus.org/circus/jukebox.php?image=display.jpg&group=Chaos%20A.D.&album=Buzz%20Caner). At the top left portion of it, there is a photograph of a guy (presumably Tom) tweaking a Roland TB-303. In this photograph, the 707 can also be spotted, along with what possibly is a 101 behind it.

Drum sequencer hooked up to the Roland tt 303 at around 35 seconds

In their studio there is 707

"I may add a bit of the 707 or 727"

Nick Taylor asks Ceephax in this [article from *Smart Shanghai*](http://www.smartshanghai.com/articles/nightlife/inside-the-dayglo-mind-of-ceephax-acid) “OK some nerdy gear questions. How much kit you bringing over to Shanghai? Is it not a huge pain in the arse to travel with all that stuff?” To which Ceephax replies “I'm bringing my flotilla of Roland hardware TR-707, [TR-909](http://equipboard.com/items/roland-tr-909-rhythm-composer), [SH-101](http://equipboard.com/items/roland-sh-101-synthesizer), [TB-303](http://equipboard.com/items/roland-tb-303), and my [Ensoniq SQ-80](http://equipboard.com/items/ensoniq-sq-80).”

"It has nice sounds in it"

Marshall Jefferson uses tr 707 in this photo

You can see a Roland TR-707 behind him on this photograph of him in his studio.

"The Roland 707 is probably my favourite drum machine along with the SP12 and the Oberheim DMX. It's really a different experience to make beats with hardware drum machines than write a sequence with MIDI, and definitely more interesting for me."

Konietzko gets the process rolling in a “little room full of stuff,” relying on drum machines like the Roland TR 909 and 707, samplers such as the Kurzweil 2000, E-mu Emix 20 and Prophet 202, a StudioVision Pro MIDI sequencer and Pro Tools running on a Mac 9600.

According to this tweet, Derakh is also using the Roland TR-707.

Forget about the 909. The Roland TR707 and 727 are the ultimate Chicago House drum machines. 64 patterns, 998 bars, step edit whilst you play the sequence, a nice big display that shows you the entire pattern in one single view (note: it is a shame it has no backlight), trigger output, din-sync in/out, midi (-sync) in and out, shuffle and flam... All in all, more than enough to satisfy your drum-sequencing needs. The 707’s 15 drum sounds are too cool to ignore. Nice and punchy bassdrums and snaredrums and a set of gritty hi-hats, funky rides and ear crushing crash cymbals… The samples in this budget machine rock beyond believe. Add the 727 to your 707 and you’ll be jacking it latino style like Mario ‘Smoking’ Diaz or playing it as smooth as Mr. Fingers with 15 more percussion sounds. Better get a big mixer if you are one of those control freaks; almost every sound has it’s own individual output… But then again… why bother? The volume sliders for each sound give you enough control, so you might as well use the stereo output. But hey, at least you have a choice!

Used in the Cocteau Twins EPs Aikea Guinea, Tiny Dynamine and Echoes In A Shallow Bay.

In this page, there is in his euipment list.

Roland TR-707 Rythm Composer The Roland TR-707 Rhythm Composer is a programmable digital sampling drum machine built by the Roland Corporation, beginning in 1984. The TR-707 was a staple in early house music, particularly with acid house. Because the TR-707 offers a limited number of instruments sampled at 12 bits, its sound is considered dated by modern standards. However, it is still in use because of its versatility in synchronizing with other hardware and its fully featured interface, comparable to that of high-end Roland drum machines such as the TR-808 and TR-909. Used: Liam has told that this machine was used to produce drums for Invaders Must Die single. He has probably used it also in many more older tracks too.

In this Instagram post we can a TR-707 in his studio setup

You can see his Roland TR-707 to the right of him in the 2nd picture of this interview.

Daniel Avery's Roland TR-707 can be seen in this Instagram picture.

707 can be seen sitting on his keyboard/MIDI instrument rack

this artist have an tr 707!

In the storage room of his studio

In the description of his track "Spiral" on Soundcloud, the following is stated: "Drums: 707 kicks and snares with a short Phil Collins touch on the snare, parallel compressed with Voxengo Drumformer".

"here I`m playing around with a Roland t.r. 707 drum machine and more specifically the Tap Write function on the sequencer (a feature, which I discovered just recently)."

Arnaud explains how to use it in the video (timecode 4'15'')

Proof on Instagram.

sharooz takes future music on a studio tour

It's beside his 909!

"Analogue synthesizers have a big advantage: you can drill them open. (...) You can't do that with prefabricated software synthesizers." — DUB TAYLOR TECH TALK feature, taken from Slices Issue 1-09.

Iconic drum machine in the upper right corner!

"707" steht auf dem Tisch...

I'ts on the table (6:53)

"We have a Yamaha RX11 drum machine but I'm a bit disappointed with that. For a start the memory is a bit limited, and because a drum machine is used like a sketchpad, it's very frustrating if you can't get enough bars into it. We use a LinnDrum with standard chips - our producer has some alternative sound chips too - and a Roland TR707 and 727 which are really good. They're amazing for the money, and we've just got an Octapad (Roland's MIDI drum pad set) which allows you to record drum patterns through MIDI onto the QX1."

"As far as drums go we use whatever comes to hand at the time, or whatever we feel like, 707, 909, DMX. If you tune the clave and the clap on the Linn really low strange sort of things happen, so we use things like that as well as triggering the AMS etc."

9 Dec. 2016 – Live set up We can see the ROLAND TR-707 on the left of the laptop

"And then yeah, slowly I got the 606, and the 707, and more and more. This is one of the latest."

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It´s used by the song Two Orbits

Shawn uses a tr 707

As seen in "Palmbomen II - Cindy Savalas & Samuel Aboah Live bij 3voor12 Radio" video on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWLcXQs1RL4

@torqueland: All scratch! Arturia Mini V and some TR-707 samples if I recall correctly

I just played my first show a couple weeks ago. It’s actually my favorite NYC party called Mutual Dreaming, always good vibes. That was probably the only reason I agreed to play, and so I spent the week before learning the songs…again. My live set-up is exactly the same as my studio set-up, minus a couple keyboards: Roland SH-101 Roland TR-707 MFB 522 MFB Fliterbox EHX 2880 loop pedal EHX reverb pedal Casio SK-1 Yamaha DX100 MPC500 and a small mixer.

Ásgeir and producer Guðm talk about how they used the TR-707 for the music "King and Cross" at minute 3:56 into the video.

Summer Heart using his Roland TR-707 for small live performances

They're using a TR707 for their live performances.

Roland TR-707 Rhythm Composer

In this video she mentions all her drum gear. The DMX is mentioned at 5:47

On the picture you can see the Roland TR-707 under the TR-808.