ot Roland r-5

[Byron G. Jacquot]

>Just got, sort-of, conned (i must stop going into second hand shops!!) into
>buying a Roland r-5 drum machine called a "human rythm composer" for £60uk.
>They gave me a quick demo, the original manuals (war and peace!!!) and a
>Roland power supply and 115v transformer.
>Being of a suspicious nature i have returned to the www to find out details.
>Roland make no mention of it! do any of you American chap's know anything of
>the pedigree of this thing? (just a stab realy because of  the adaptor
>voltage).
>Have i bought a Mars lander!!!

The R5 is the little brother to the R8 drum machine, the flagship model from
the early 90s.  They look about the same, in gray/black with large black
buttons and an LCD for editing.  All of the sounds are sampled, with 12-bit
resolution, I believe.  The big difference between the R5 and R8 is that the
R8 had slots for adding more sounds via memory cards, while the R5 lacked
those slots.

Not a bad machine for the price, since thats about what Tr707s go for, and
they have fewer & dirtier samples, and probably less pattern storage.

Byron Jacquot