Steda Electronics SR-909 quick jam (Roland TR-909 replica)
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Quick demo while testing MIDI of this amazing drum machine I built for a friend. More video's will follow when I receive my own kit. If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the comments!
The SR-909 is an exact replica of the classic Roland TR-909. It comes as a complete kit with enclosure, bare boards and all electronics and rare components included. The boards are based exactly on the original schematics and the machine is running the original V4 firmware.
The build itself was quite a ride, but the guys from Steda Electronics were very helpful!
Everything about this Jam feels right 🖤
It's the perfect sound and the perfect layout.✌️🙃❤
Ohh that D50 preset ....nice
Awesome piece of kit, if I was richer I'd love to own one of these and the SP1200 repo but Rossum
I love those computer keyboard keys with the led lights built in! I need me a pack of those for my projects in keyboard building. The music reminds me of a Roland from the 1980s.. And then I saw you play a Roland from the 80s lol! Classic!
The pads are actually also a signature Roland D-50 patch called "Soundtrack" ;)
@@juicythedj750 Yes it is! Funny, I remember dreaming I was playing an S10 with that same sound pad even before I ever got to play a Roland keyboard! I was a teen in Puerto Rico at that time. It is nice to see so much out there now for synth and drum machine options that we did NOT have back in the 1980s.
It’s beautiful!!!!
I really liked the black case too but I would go for the beige all day, wicked demo too
more worth than 10 famous dj mixes!
Thanks for the kind words dude! With winter around the corner and my own 909 kit waiting to be built soon, there's more tracks to come!
This short teaser is amazing, it connects very well to the Detroit and UR sound in particular. It's obvious that it was an inspiration to you, but it's so well made! I think it would do really well on vinyl, do you have this as a finished track? If so can we get it somewhere?
Sounds pretty much like a real 909 … but then so does the Behringer RD9 at a fraction of the cost 😮
I HAVE THE TR 909
You do a great job of holding the camera and hitting the chords at the same time.
Do you have a link or any more information about the build of this replica?
Sorry for the late response!
Here's the official webstore:
diystudiotoys.com/catalog/sr-909-drum-machine
I got all their info directly through chat & email. There's not a real guide, but it's easy to just follow their bill of materials. Then there's also schematics on how to do the internal wiring. And finally I got a few tips and tricks from the Dinsync RE-909 guide.
Great jam.
Is 909 raw or it has been processed( saturation, compression)?
Cheers.
Dario
cool Tascam M-208, how do you use it? Do you mixing the whole track or just to give color to a group of things? I'm also very curious how you connected it in your studio. Do you exit and re-enter the sound card separately?
Hi man! It's just connected to my patch bay, like the rest of my gear. Sometimes I run individual instruments or drum sounds through it. I've recently modded it with individual outputs per channel, so now I can have each channel run back into my audio interface yes. It's too limited to do full mixes on it :)
@@juicythedj750 Ah okay, so you use a few channels at a time and decide everything from the patchbay.
Do you usually record the 909 all on separate outputs? Or are you connected to a physical mixer? I'm getting my first steda soon too and I wanted to get ready. What kind of sound card do you use to use, just for her, 10 available inputs at a time?
Now for a 1/4 of the price, we have Behringer RD9 which sounds amazing and you no need to solder the kit, it's ready to rock!
We knew about the RD-9 2 years ago.
See I love my Model D, TD-3 and MS-101, but corners were cut here and there and especially with the MS, a few key elements of the core functionality were overseen.
So for a classic like the TR-909, I wanted to go the extra mile. Next to a few modern additions, it seems like Behringer has left out a few things as well - the external MIDI track for example. Furthermore, from the few demo's we've seen so far, the RD-9 seems to sound very stiff, clinical in comparison to the original which has some extra oomphf and warmth. But it sounds far from bad and definitely more authentic than the Jomox boxes for example.
I think it is amazing too that for 1/4th of the 2nd hand prices, you can build essentially the same thing. Each to his own of course! :)
@@juicythedj750 don't get me wrong, i own a TR909, purchased back in 1994, but it's better to keep it in the studio. The RD9 it's a cheap clone and works well for 350 dollars/euro. The TR909 sounds different because it's a vintage analog hardware made in Japan, not the cheap clones made in China, like RD9, Steda and so on.
@@tonybucks5709 nice one :) well, hardware is the important difference between the Steda and Behringer. The Steda boards are exact replicas of the original and can be used to repair an original 909 even. The electronics are exactly the same, including rare original parts. That's why they'll only be able to make a limited number of kits too
@@juicythedj750 Whats the point of all that pedigree *if you can't buy one?* I applaud Steda for their work, but paying $500+ to either build my own, pay more to have someone build it for me, pay even more for a second hand because the Steda people can't be bothered to make any more....naaaahhhh, rather go with the Behringer one and make my adjustments as necessary. I do not understand Steda's strategy of not wanting to sell a unit to someone with money in hand ready to buy.
@@Broyale26 it's not that they don't want to sell as many kits as they can, they just rely on the availability of lots of rare parts because they chose to make a full kit instead of delivering just bare boards and an enclosure.
What do you mean by "your adjustments"?
nice sounds! which one do you prefer, steda SR-909 or roland TR-8s ?
Meanwhile I've finished my own Steda and it's amazing how full and punchy it sounds just from its stereo output. Can't explain really.. analog magic I guess 😎
I still love the TR-8S though! With the recently released software editor and all other emulations like 707 & 606, it's definitely a keeper
Nice...how much did you pay for it if i may ask?
It's about $1900.00
Woooo my kits just arrived today! How did you find the build process?
So glad for you! The build process wasn't particularly difficult. It's just a lot of parts.
Make sure to get yourself a (cheap) crimping tool for the internal cabling. You'll need to crimp the molex connectors to the cables yourself. The hardest part was finding a flatcable/ribbon cable with a 2,54mm pitch instead of 1,27mm. 2,54mm is also the distance of the pins on the board and I wanted to have flatcables with the same width (like in the original 909), but this is not crucial of course :)
@@juicythedj750 Hey that's really useful to know, thanks!
Which machine is doing the bass line?
That's the Yamaha TX-81Z with the Lately Bass preset :)
What u using for the bassline?
Yamaha TX81Z! :)
May have to get a Replica that R9 a fraud
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@@juicythedj750 Berringer
why is that thing so big? i feel like it's unnecessarily large. so much wasted faceplate space
That you'll need to ask the original engineers at Roland from the 80ies ;)
On a serious note: it's just component size & limitations of that time probably. And since this is a 1-1 clone - both internally and externally, you end up with a similar size. The voiceboard is pretty large.
"FML" hahhaha