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The 909 is sick, no doubt. It really grooves and breathes. Did you know that it's all of the drums are analog, along with the closed hi-hat, but that the signature open hat, crash, and ride are digital samples? That's why they have the tuning knobz. And some people mod their 909s to tune up the open hat sample, too.
The sound of the 909 is "played out" as far as unce-unce-unce is concerned, but people have barely scratched the surface when it comes to shifting the sample rate of the kick and snare. The sound of that is unbelievably punchy.
My personal favorite drum machine is the TR-707. It's much cheaper than the 909, though these days, prices are continually getting BTFO on ebay. About six years ago, you could get a 707 on ebay for a couple hundred bucks. Same with the 606.
The 707 has the same crash and ride sample as the 909, but the rest are all woody acoustic drum samples. And it has its weird latin counterpart, the 727, with congas and glockenspiels and chimes and shit. This tune uses those samples pretty heavily, and is like the ultimate drum machine anthem anyway:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vrvdPRLeEU
OK, sorry to ramble, but not really, because I love drum machines.
The 606 is an awesome machine, too. It has the same enclosure as the 303, so the two naturally go together. However, it has a really, really soft and low kick. It doesn't cut very well. The hats on it cut hard. They are super noisy and tinny. And the snare is like the little brother to the 808.
The 808 is GOAT, objectively speaking. That thing is still rocking today. Hell, there is the entire genre of trap music, which is basically just an 808 that's been resampled over 9000 times, then pitched around to make basslines. 808's are so damned expensive, and rightly so. You're looking at a 100% analog drum circuit in a brickhouse enclosure and a true piece of history.
Clones like the Acidlab Miami are affordable and awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_luuZVmURI