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"Fitst off it is really rare to find these unit's & especially with the matching Drumfire drum kit. A rare electronic drum synthesizer made in Japan in the 80's. This 2-channel unit is considered to be the best sounding and most versatile of the vintage synth drum machines.Quite a range of sounds can be made as you can see by all the various editable parameters, each channel has 2 oscillators with adjustable decay for each, pitch, sweep, and a waveshape control. That can be mixed with a noise generator with filter, adjustable decay, and amount. Plus, a button to engage a click sound. It can make all the sounds that the DF-500 unit can and more as the 500 only has 1 oscillator and does not have variable waveshape or noise filter.
A very nice feature is that a user preset can be programmed for each channel. This is done with the small black plastic shaft pots to the right of the colored knobs for each parameter. They are used to adjust the respective parameter, just like the bigger 'manual' pot, and when the button is pressed for preset, those are the sounds settings. Basically, you can switch between two sounds - "Manual" based on the settings of the big knobs, and "Preset" based on the settings of the little black ones.
This unit can pretty much sound like a Simmons, Tama Techstar, and more. You can get sub bass, 808/909-ish kicks, toms, snares, space drums, bleeps & fx, and cymbal type sounds with the noise generator."
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