When I was a teenager I saw a guy named Bob Kilpatrick perform on stage at a youth camp I was at. He had only his acoustic guitar and two little silver plastic machines that he called his backup band. One of the machines I was familiar with was the Roland TR-606 drummatix drum machine. I knew about it because one of my friends had one and I had lots of fun programming drum patterns on it so we could jam to them when we played guitar. The other box was a Roland TB-303 which is highly sought after and revered as THE "acid" techno groove box to have. Both of these analog rhythm boxes gave me my first taste of playing with electronic music machines.
The TB-303 would later become very valuable. I've seen some of these things priced at $2500+ to this day! I suppose the reason for the demand is that these are classic analog synths and those sounds are wonderful to those in the know. When I saw that Audiorealism had released technoBox 
, complete with TB-303 and the ultra-popular TR-808 and 909 drum sounds and a built-in sequencer, I knew I had to try it out. I'd love to have those three rhythm machines right in my pocket to play with at any time!
