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For those that prefer something with buttons, Roland has issued desktop module versions of some of their iconic machines under the name Roland Boutique. The equivalents of the devices they have in this online tool would be the SH-01a, TB-03 and TR-08.

E.g: https://www.roland.com/us/products/sh-01a/




Or just buy the cheap Behringer clones which are fairly accurate and full analogue like the originals, unlike the boutiques which are digital.

https://www.behringer.com/product.html?modelCode=P0DG6

https://www.behringer.com/product.html?modelCode=P0DTD

https://www.behringer.com/product.html?modelCode=P0DG5


Yeah. I've got both the boutiques and Behringers. And if you can live with the behringer ethics and cheap plastic feel, the sound is definitely just as good if not better


Or that, but I thought that advertising the products of a competitor with dubious ethical standards would be poor form.


> Or that, but I thought that advertising the products of a competitor with dubious ethical standards would be poor form.

Show me where are Roland's analogue TR808,TR909 or TB303 in retail? That's right, there are none.

The patents on all these circuit designs have expired long ago. Behringer is just offering a cheap analogue alternative to unaffordable used gear.

The boutique devices you listed are not analogue so they aren't more authentic to the original than Behringer devices. If anything, it's no less of dubious marketing.




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