Comments on: Sequential Circuits Tom Drum Machine

By: Cary Sontag

Cary Sontag — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:50:05 +0000

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By: Nate

Nate — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:04:29 +0000

how much are you selling it for? does everything on it work? And where are you located? I may be interested in it.

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By: jay

jay — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:36:40 +0000

can you tell me where to sell mine I've had since 1987 paid $450.00 need to find good home
for him

By: AL:

AL: — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:17:08 +0000

I have one sitting around that I got cheaply, but without a power supply. I’ve been meaning to order a replacement power supply from Wine County, but it keeps getting put off for other things. Not even sure if it works…

Its features really are sort of cool… the clock out is capable of driving Roland DIN-Sync; there’s a ninth internal “instrument” that controls a separate “trigger” output that puts out a 10V pulse on command (that’s why the cartridges only have 7 sounds on them… “sound” 16 is always hardwired to the trigger out).

TOM is the little brother of the Studio 440… he’s Sequential Circuits model 420.

By: Rob P.

Rob P. — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:48:06 +0000

I owned one about 7 years ago. I really wanted the unit bad at the time after what I’d read about its unusual features (for the time). I also had the electronic drumset cartridge for it.

But, like any instrument, you have to fall in love with it in order to make some great music with it. I wanted to love the unit, but I never could get the unit and me to “gel” creatively.

The unit is (I’m being merely descriptive here, not subjective) harsh – never subtle. Sometimes brittle, chunky and very up-front in a mix – whether you want it to be or not. That would be a great thing for bodyrock or industrial, hard glitch, etc. If you think of the 808 as smooth and deep, a-la “Sexual Healing” then the TOM is the antithesis of this.

I sold my TOM with a heavy heart, but at times I do miss the unique sound it offered, if only we could have met in the middle for some good tracks. I did sample the unit fully before selling it, but that’s not even close to approaching what the unit and its uniqueness can do – it’s just not the same. Anyway I hope other artists find TOM more useful than I did.