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spock posted in the group Roland TR-8 / TR-8S / TR-6S
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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spock posted in the group Elektron Digitakt Users
Saved by the Digitakt // How it became my DAWLESS Centre Piece
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I never really thought about using it as the center of my setup as it has no song mode. It’s definitely a very capable box though.
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My Postsly I never use song mode, I capture the audio (multitrack via overbridge) and do the arrangement in my DAW
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You can easily use the pattern chaining to build up different patterns into a song. I tend to create a pattern, copy it 16 times, then use Pattern Mutes to bring different elements in and out. You can go into the scale mode and set the number of times each pattern plays. Once you’re done you can chain all 16 patterns to play your “song” :-D.
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@eatsleepsynthrepeat It’s a great idea! it’s unfortunate that the pattern chaining not saved in a project
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Yes I wish they would update it to save the chains. Let’s hope!
For now I just make sure the patterns are in the order I need then I can quickly chain them when I open the project.
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Char
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?