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Product Information Document Electronic Drum Sets RHYTHM DESIGNER RD-8 Classic Analog Drum Machine with 16 Drum Sounds, 64 Step Sequencer, Wave Designer and Dual-Mode Filter ## Amazing drum machine with authentic analog sound engine to create the classic sound performance ## 16 original drum sounds with additional parameters and global Accent capability ## Modern and versatile workflow provides enhanced playability, enabling you to create captivating live performances ## Powerful 64-step drum sequencer supports poly-meter, step-repeat, note-repeat, real-time triggering, track-mute and track-solo ## Integrated FX bus features Wave Designer and dual-mode Analog Filter with per voice assignment ## Live recording, editing and playback of Analog Filter cutoff via automation ## Storage of up to 16 songs and 256 patterns, all of which can be imported/exported during playback for unlimited songs and patterns ## Pattern Mode allows arrangement of patterns into full songs and setting number of repeats per song part ## Song Mode allows chaining songs together for live sets and expanded compositions ## Unique Auto Scroll feature enables improvisation in all modes ## Comprehensive MIDI In/Out/ Thru and USB implementation for synchronization and connection to external devices A Brief History of Drum Machines From its humble beginnings as rhythmic support to organists, to later setting dance floors ablaze with unrelenting and hypnotic beats, the drum machine has been one of the most unappreciated of all musical inventions. Uncompromising in its metronomic precision, the drum machine provides a flawless rhythm section that never tires of playing the same four-bar loop. However, when put into the right hands and proper musical context, they can be finessed to create awe-inspiring rhythmic artistry. First Drum Machine - The Rhythmicon The ground-breaking Rhythmicon was created by Russian inventor Léon Theremin in 1931. The machine was a collaboration with American composer Henry Cowell and can produce up to 16 different rhythms with a strikingly bleepy sound.