Roland CR-78 Compu-Rhythm

Posted by Jesper Ranum on 01/03/1978

The CR-78 was a very traditional looking, but pretty groundbreaking unit in some ways.

Not merely building upon their legacy and upgrading the exsting CR-68 model, Roland added user programmability to the CR-78 for the first time in their rhythm units. You could add your own beats to existing rhythms – or create a new one – by means of a trigger input. Roland supplied a weird pad device for this, that you can bang to enter the hits. This showed the way for future classic Roland drum machines – the TR-808, TR-909, TR-707 and TR-606 Drumatix series, as well as for controllers like the Octapad.

I owned and used the CR-78 in my Studio Version 1

Jesper Ranum

Composer, Producer, Logic Pro and Modular synth expert. With a career spanning 4 decades in Electronic Music, Digital Audio and Web Development, I have rather deep experience with all aspects of music, post production and the web. I have done touring, album productions, movie scoring, authoring, documentaries, commercials, direction, mixing, mastering, voiceovers, visuals, site conception and many other different types of audio related projects. But my studio has always been the real centre point for my activities - and still is. It has been continuously developed and refined to an absolute high end, personal electronic sound facility.

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