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Hillwood | HR-2

Description

The Hillwood HR2 Super Variation is a drum machine from the 1970's. Considered an advanced and good sounding drum machine of it's time, the unit played drum loops with enough variation to not be as repetitive and long enough for fills.The drum loops are stored in a rom chip within the unit.

The user changed drum styles with radio push buttons on the front panel. Optionally a foot switch could be used to turn the rhythm machine on and off. There are 5 cancel buttons which allow you to remove unwanted sounds from any of the rhythms giving the user some form of customization. There is a digital numerical display shows the bar number while the machine is playing. The user can select more than one rhythm button at a time for some random beat making.
BrandHillwood
ModelHR-2
DeviceDrum
TypeDesktop
Engine TypeAnalog
EnginePreset
Voices (max)6
Drums12 preset patterns
Keys0
Key typeN/A
VelocityN/A
AftertouchN/A
Produced:1977
Legend: Obvious Y: Yes, N: No, N/A: Not Applicable
VCO Voltage Controlled Oscillator DCO Digital Controlled Oscillator
LFO Low Frequency Oscillator Sub Sub Oscillator
VCF Voltage Controlled Filter VCA Voltage Controlled Amplifier
Velocity As with a piano, the harder you hit a key, the louder the sound, unlike most organs which always produce the same loudness no matter how hard you hit a key. Aftertouch Pressing a key after you activated it. Channel Aftertouch, no matter which key, it will send a Channel message. Poly Aftertouch, sends the pressure per key instead of the whole channel.
Values for OSC, LFO, Filter, Envelope are per voice unless stated otherwise.

Manuals, patches etc.

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