Cheetah MD 16R Digital Drum Machine

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The MD16R from Cheetah is the rack version of the MD 16, which was launched in 1991. The device comes with a set of DP-5 drum pads. It contains 700 sounds. ROM cartridges from Cheetah each contribute a further 200 samples. 

The samples are 16-bit (48 kHz) and can be assigned to 16 pads, played from any pattern and edited with any of the device's voice editing parameters. They can be tuned from +1 to -6 octaves in a range of 1-127 steps or chromatically over a range of +1 octave in semitone steps. Tone length, volume envelope, velocity curve, playing direction and assignment of the outputs to a stereo mix or to the eight outputs are programmable.
The chromatic pad function distributes sounds from any one pad to the other 15. Eight volume envelopes are available for effects such as fade-in/fade-out and reverse envelopes as well as attack/decay programs. With the human parameters, the attack of a sound is attenuated or shortened at lower volumes, the pitch is detuned at higher volumes or volume-dependent tunings are programmed over a range of two octaves. 254 patterns can be saved and combined into 254 songs with up to 127 steps. Two programmable echo banks can be assigned to each pad. (Source: muzines)