Ace Tone Rhythm Ace FR-2L demo

Demo of the Ace Tone Rhythm Ace FR-2L, an early drum machine by Ace Tone (Roland), introduced in the late 1960s. Almost identical to the first model FR-1, but in an organ-friendly format, and with different "instrument cancel" options.

[@20windfisch11]

The east-German band "City" used the Beguine style for their song "Glastraum" (glass dream)

[@djmarco589]

excellent drum machine....good sound...

[@themheavypeople]

Please upload more videos with the Roland Msq 700! WE NEED MORE!

[@jetpackman01]

This sounds a lot like the Garageband drum kits. Of course, it's much better to be able to customize your drum beats in the program than to be restrained by presets, but it's still interesting to hear what it was sampled from.

[@NathanHassall]

I disagree, in this day and age working within limitation expresses skill but also the punchy sound of the actual hardware unit has a mojo that no software can emulate. Put a guy on stage in a bar with one of these and a guitar and he will get more attention crowd cheering then a guy using a laptop for his beats i guarantee you.

[@stickah]

*ye, this sounds like Roland CR-78 and i think it is on Garageband…*

[@thebeans6534]

This was also used on the OMD song Enola Gay.

[@SynthManiaDotCom]

+TheBeans Actually I think that was CR-78

[@VolcaRock]

great, sounds like my roland TR-77 :-)

[@antagonizingusername]

Wall Of Voodoo!!!!!!!!!

[@bootyburglar10456]

yes!!! I was thinking the same thing!

[@tapesuey9248]

I've got one…admittedly much noisier than that one…but you missed the best feature…which is of course that you can jam multiple pattern buttons down (like on the old organs) and get some different beats...

[@SynthManiaDotCom]

I know. I've discovered that "best feature" in 1984, when I bought a used Farfisa Matador LR that had preset rhythm buttons. And I combined two rhythms from this very machine in my song "Magic Frog" (that you can find on my channel). But for this video I wanted to do a clean demo with only the single rhythms.

[@tapesuey9248]

Good…:-) If you have time check out my stupid song website…its a bit work in progress but every week I post a stupid song that I performed using junk instruments such as the above mentioned drum machine, organs, Casios, etc…and recorded to tape. There are almost 30 totally free songs on there just from this year. www.tapesuey.com

[@BrainPolice5]

And then you run the whole thing through a digital delay and get some REALLY wild patterns. I've had mine for about 20 years and I love it. It's got groove.

[@user-gv8vv2id7t]

damn didnt know you could do that, gonna try it on mine tonight. always love running this drum machine thru some pedals tho

[@opale1572]

Observo que la gente tiene la manía de las manipulaciones. Mezclar ritmos, añadir dispositivos para modificar el sonido... Yo debo de ser muy inculto y muy pasado de moda, pero, habiendo descubierto las cajas de ritmo electrónicas en los años 70, me parece suficientemente mágico y bello el sonido de los presets.

[@stitzelmichael]

i have one, it's cool!

[@brandontcrow]

is the cha-cha at 1:40 possibly the drum machine from Gorillaz "Last Living Souls"?

[@YellowMockingbird]

+Brandon Crow Right! And also from the "Corporate World" by The Dust Brothers, Fight Club OST

[@nikobellic2086]

Daym good spot

[@stickah]

*haha, I came here looking for precisely the sound of "last living souls" and finally found it, it's great that more people have noticed this sound, I thought it came from the roland cr-78. Greetings.*

[@TLOEric]

@@stickahSame, I always thought it was a CR-78 too

[@BLUESFANAAT1977]

Hey hey, Could you punt this unit in a 19inch rack mount? Thanks

[@cannadineboxill-harris2983]

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[@FeonaLeeJones]

I inherited one of these from my grandpa and made the mistake of selling it for only $60!!! :(

[@TiberianFiend]

🪦

[@caktalfraktal]

minimal techno

[@joeboygsxr]

Have you got the fair light fixed?

[@genuinefraud303]

I have one but it needs to be fixed.. no sound

[@davidr.w.7517]

Don Felder used this machine to create Hotel California

[@graphene1487]

nowwwww.......try playing two different styles together and you'll get some dope polyrhythms :)

[@ZackYouTube]

I have one

[@RD-ug9ud]

the roland 808 father.

[@stickah]

*i think it is the CR-78, maybeee???…*