What was the best drum machine ever made in your opinion?

I feel like my entry vs. the direction of this thread makes me the HIp-Hop Gier...

In theory, 808
In practice, 606 thru effects

the contemporary cartridge for the tom is great - if you're familiar with the shamen vs bam bam's transcendental - that cart is all over it as well as the hats. special effects is hysterical - you can have fun with playing with the tuning. tip with the bass drum - detune it -16 in continuous 16's it sounds like a drill. also endless fun with abusing the auto-repeat. it's disappointing if you use it via midi as a sound source but fantastic if you use it as a machine.

I almost bought a Prophet 2000 rack sampler from Wine Country. Sequential had already gone under and they were carrying the remainders, and the Prophet sampler seemed years ahead of it's time, at the time. For those who didn't masturbate to issues of keyboard magazine...Sequentials R&D division went to Yamaha though some people went to Korg, which is why a few years later Sequential's VS (vector synthesis) tech showed up on the Korg Wavestation and the Yamaha SY-22(and TG-33). However, Yamaha shelved their sampler for their own, which was a huge failure.

woops, I mean Prophet-3000.

http://www.winecountrysequential.com/3000.html

sorry to derail.

speaking of sequential, not drum machines, sequential alum dave smith's evolver is, like, the greatest toy ever. i mean, it's hardly a toy - pretty effing powerful little monster, really. but at $500 it's practically priced like one... sure wish i could afford me a polyevolver w/ keyboard!

that evolver keyboard looks nice...just saw a Pro-One at Main Drag in Williamsburg, serial number 36..for 1000 dollars.