Re:Roland TR-808 Cowbell Rebuild
by JKCalhoun on Saturday May 07, 2022 @07:46AM
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I love these deep-dive hardware projects ... best when they are on a small thing like this one (so I'm not too overwhelmed).
Electronics + audio has always been my gateway like programming + graphics (and lighting up an LED is "Hello World").
I don't imagine you could change the pitch of the cowbell on the TR-808, but it sounds a little high pitched to my ear. I guess though that in the era of the TR-808 people were pretty jazzed by electronic percussive instruments that were even close.
Electronics + audio has always been my gateway like programming + graphics (and lighting up an LED is "Hello World").
I don't imagine you could change the pitch of the cowbell on the TR-808, but it sounds a little high pitched to my ear. I guess though that in the era of the TR-808 people were pretty jazzed by electronic percussive instruments that were even close.