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Roland TR-8S v2.5/TR-6S v1.5 Firmware & TR-EDITOR Update Overview
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The manual has been updated
https://static.roland.com/assets/media/pdf/TR-8S_Reference_eng04_W.pdf
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I don’t own one yet, but am tempted to try one after seeing this latest update. Coming from Elektron it was the lack of probability that was putting me off. Now I have no excuse 😂
Thinking of going for the TR-6S for the size and battery power, but not sure whether only having 6 tracks would be enough as that annoyed me on the Model Cycles. I always found I need just one more track! Any owners of the TR-6S here? How do you find the track limitation?-
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I find 6-tracks to be a bit limiting on a drum machine. Unless you really need battery power then I’d go for the TR-8S!
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A great demo of the new sounds in the TR-8S v2.5 update by Amazing Machines
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I sold my blofeld a few years ago but have been thinking about buying one again lately. Can’t even remember why I sold it. Was great for Trance leads and plucks, and being multitimbral you can use it for a whole song. Here’s a track I made using the blofeld…
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Yes, I like its sound a lot. Great track! 🙂
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What do you sequence the blofeld with?
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You can sequence it over Midi, i my case with Arturia Keystep 37. It also has a great arpeggiator with a pattern editor, but there is no clock input. Syncing arps with Midi clock is always a bit tricky…
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From what i remember, I’m sure the Blofeld does sync to external MIDI clock?
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Oh yes it does. You can switch between Internal and Auto. But the different arp modes are a bit tricky: in one-shot mode only the tempo is synced. But it starts playing in the moment you press the keys. In hold mode it starts in sync but it keeps playing unsynced after stopping the DAW. Then when starting it again it sometimes playes out of sync. But in normal mode it works fine. 🙂 Just compared it with the Microfreak: there is a similiar issue in hold mode when restarting the DAW. So maybe it is a general thing when using an arp with hold.
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Alex
Wow, great update! I honestly thought Roland were done with the TR-8S. Opening up the FM modelling to access more parameters was definitely on my wish list. The sub-step probability and master probability looks really good. I don’t think the Elektron machines can do that?