Add your favourite CR-78 hits below.

In Australia it was called the 8𝘓-ꓤϽ.

That frustrating moment when the P10 appears ready to honor this H&O gem and nothing happens

Every German teenager from the 80ies will know this drum machine as it was prominently used in every second "Drei Fragenzeichen" music track :)

Love this drum machine didnt realise Roxy Music used it too. Behringer are doing great things preserving history

When you aren’t even a drum machine person and you know it’s gonna be the CR78 that Tears for Fears used on The Hurting

I usched thisch on Heart of Arsch.

Metamatic, what an album. My mates mocked me endlessly for going “liquid in the sheets”! But I knew it was a work of art.

....... Japan ...... still love that band, shame they didn't live out that long tbh 😔

Alex Ball's finger snap is so famous that a Prophet 10 becomes a mere backdrop for it.

I both love and hate this drum machine. There's just something about it that tickles my ears but I hate it in a mix.

I use to be John Foxx's window cleaner when I was 18......many many years ago. And I use to drool over his studio set up. He was a really lovely bloke who was extremely down to earth.

Just love the percussive sounds of the CR 78. Still sounds great today. One song to add using the CR 78. “Games without frontiers” Peter Gabriel. Many thanks Richard.

I grew up with Numan, Foxx and Warren Cann mod'ing his like hell so its cool 40 years later to see comments from people discovering that for the first time. Cann said there are tuning pots inside the 78 - he altered the decay of the kick as the standard kick tended to go "BOING!" through a PA instead of "THUD!". They didn't use backing tracks live so he also had it mod'ed to display a tempo readout as it triggered the bass synths on some tracks.

METAMATIC IS A MUST HAVE. Damn. Such a classic album.

Glad to see Metamatic getting a mention, still listening to that record. A little nod to John Foxx me thinks in your excellent, as ever, outro tune. Your channel is ace btw.

I love this drum machine , there's a Genesis gig from 1980 ( available on KZread), where Phil Collins "plays" it, in the intro to the song Duchess, he manipulates the standard pattern using the faders.

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I'm 99% sure that Metamatic was one of the first two albums I ever bought. It holds up extremely well today, and the production quality is solid. The other album was Replicas, and yes... I was one of those people shouting "what about Gary Numan?" :)

I really dig this jam at the end, very creative use of MS-20 and also REALLY FREAKIN COOL harmony