You get nice basic drum tones to get you started and for those who all ready have a drum machine this little beauty gives lot's of useful and nice sounds to your rhythm weaponry. 707 has clap that sounds almost identical to 909's clap. You get 3 useful tom sounds, good crispy rimshot, and excelent cybal sounds. Both crash and ride are convincing enough to make that 909 styled techno.

Snares are Ok, not maybe so versatile than 909's but they do the job. Some of you have been criticizing kick sounds but I find them useful. And when you have individual outputs to all most every sound you can process these with external eq's and effects.

707's sequencer is really great for rhythm and groove experiments and it has that same hand on feel that the 909 and 808 has. I also love the pattern play mode where you can chance to one pattern to an another really rapid and this gives great realtime control on live situations.

If this isn't enough you also can use 707's sequencer to send midi to external devices so you can get that TR-programming feel and use for example 909 kit from your sound module or software based sampler.

Rim shot also sends 5 volt trigger pulse, so you can use this to trigger CV based drum modules. I use mine to trigger DIY based 909 kick circuit.

707 receives and sends midi and it supports Roland DIN sync so you can sync earlier Roland products like TB-303 or SH-101 to midi sync simply using 707.

I searched quite long until I found one in perfect condition and I'm sure it's a keeper. Lot of people are abusing and bending these boxes there's nothing wrong with that, it's only matter of time when these will become rare. I treat mine like any other Roland vintage synth, with great respect.

Many rock bands have used this box but I think it's best on techno and acid house.

I've had countless hours of fun just with TR-707 and 202, tweaking and improvising basslines and beats. Throw in another drum machine and another bass synht and you are in acid heaven :)

Oh, and it really does look really funky!