Shhh! If the journalists get their facts right, we won't be underground any more!
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, sean deason wrote: > speaking of writers doing research: > the lastest copy of REMIX mag has an article on the very last page about > Juan Atkins. In it they claim that he and Rick Davis used a Roland R8 on the > Cybotron - Enter album back in 1981. > Maybe I'm no longer clear on my gear timelines, but it seems to me that if > the Roland 808 (with analog drum sounds) was in production in (roughly) 1982 > and the 909 (with a mixture of analog and sampled drum sounds) in 1983, > wouldnt the R8, which contains sampled drum sounds only, have followed those > machines years later (especially since it samples sounds from the 808 and > 909 machines)?
