Achromatic Music

Maschine & TR-707

I’ve got a few old drum machines in my closet which I use on the odd occasion. The problem is, no one likes pulling gear out, hooking it up, dusting it and putting it back. When I first heard about Native Instruments Maschine, I thought “oh thank god, an affordable, more versatile MPC 2500.” After I purchased Maschine, I was instantly in love. It was the sampler/ sequencer I always wanted and I started buying up all the Maschine Kits online. What caught my eye immediately was the Vintage Heat pack, chock full of vintage analog and digital kits. On their site they show an image of a pile of old drum machines, a few of which I own, and I was sold. After purchasing the pack I was a little disappointed as I thought what I was purchasing was basically an archive of vintage drum machine samples, when in fact what I got was a bunch of modified 808/909/505/78 kits, with a few digital ones thrown in there. ”Where’s the 707 and 727???” I wondered.

Don’t get me wrong, the Vintage Heat kits are fat and awesome in their own right, but what I REALLY wanted was a full drum machine archive. Not processed, not “phattened-up”, pitched and effected sounds.

I’ve sampled my own TR-707 and made a straight up kit. No effects, no processing, no nothing. So feel free to download the kit for your own Maschine, or just download it for the nice clean TR-707 samples… I’m really starting to wish I bought that TR-727 15 years ago for $200, they’re a fortune now. Anyone have an extra one?

[Download the Roland TR-707 Maschine kit here]
1mb – Install instructions in Readme.txt