This small drum machine doesn’t look like much, but in fact it has a good amount of nice features, and is more versatile than one would expect from a preset drum box. This is mainly due to the presence of five ‘cancel’ buttons which allow you to remove unwanted sounds from any of the rhythms; very useful, because so many times you find a great beat, but one of the sounds ruins it…
The HR-2 also has a digital numerical display that actually writes the bar number, instead of the usual blinking light in other units from the era. This must have been pretty exciting at the time!
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