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A physical drum machine is essentially a box that plays drum sounds. They can either use synthesized sounds or audio samples.

That headline sounds suspect, but it is the most succinct way to explain why the Roland TR-808 drum machine has a very distinct, and difficult to replicate noise circuit. The drum machine was ...