What was the best drum machine ever made in your opinion?

I'll plump for an Oberheim DMX, although the Sequential Tom is a fine drum machine.

KPR77 - odd little rinky-dink analogue drum box w/pattern & song modes
DDD1 - sub-linn 12bit digital sample drumbox w/huge library of alternative sounds on pcm cards
S3 - halfassed drum machine/sequencer, drum sounds are made by combining a stick/beater impact sample with a shell ring sample.

I used to use this thingy a lot!

Then upgraded to this (If anyone here has vol2, "Have you seen this cat" uses this.)

http://www.machinedrum.com/img/showroom/p_1_top.jpg

A friend of mine has the CR-78. It is a fantastic machine!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythmicon

My picks

Roland CR-78
LinnDrum (all of them)
Roland TR-808
Oberheim DMX
Roland TR-909

http://www.drummachinemusic.com/

DRUM SAMPLERS SHOULD NOT COUNT (Emu's SP series, MPCs, etc.)[if so, the SP1200 wins for sequencer, and needless to say, the mpc3000> series wins for universality due to sampletime, hi-bitrate, midi central, everything machine)

The Roland R-8's sequencer, which I began my so-called career on, punches like a tulip picking girl. And not being able to intergrate sounds from one kit to another makes it seem pointless compared to actual drum samplers.

http://www.keyboardmuseum.org/pic/a/ace/ace.html

The one Wall of Voodoo used was supposedly a "Kalamazoo Rhythmace," but I've never been able to find anything on it.

http://www.drumbuddy.com/

i picked one of these up cheap ($20) off of craigslist recently. is it possible to find these pcm cards still? what kinda of other sounds can you find?

I really like the usability of my Alesis SR-16...I think it was discontinued a few years ago, it was a mid-late 90s type model. Lots of good sounds and it's been real easy to use.

Apart from that I'd pick:

808
606
RY-30

Oh how I love drum machines.

I'm awaiting delivery of a Sequential Circuits Tom this week... very excited.
Lost an eBay auction for a Jomox XBase09 last night... very disappointed.

There's loads of them, I think about 50 in Korg's own range, which cover various regular kit sounds, latin sounds, electronic sounds (mainly simmonds drum orientated, sadly), ethnic sounds, sfx, ad about a further 10-15 made by a company called Metrasound, which were mainy Linn and 808 sounds. They appear quite commonly on ebay, probably the best source for them really. Picks of the ones I have are India 1, (5 tabla sounds) japan 1, handclaps and fingersnaps, the Latin ones. Bad ones are the talking drum one and the rock(ambience) one. Sound effects ones are likely pretty useless. the one I want, which I've never seen is the drum box one.

I want to give props to the Boss Dr-660...for a long time it had the most bang for it's buck, tons of sounds, drums and otherwise, basic 808/909 type stuff c/o roland, bass/synthy sounds with basic editing, I wrote a whole song on one once...and these were around during that dry period before all these neo-analogs came around.

Personally, I own a DMX and a Drumtraks, but have always lusted after a 909, being the detroit techno fied I was for years.

But the best ever drum machine? The preset one built into this rack DJ mixer I borrowed from some guy in high school. If you held down two presets at once, say Rock and Bossanova, you got the best stuff.

http://www.winecountrysequential.com/3000.html

sorry to derail.

Linn Lm-1 and Tr808 , nothing else for the best , in second position of course the Linn drum

dmx all day and all night