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?

The manual has been updated

https://static.roland.com/assets/media/pdf/TR-8S_Reference_eng04_W.pdf

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?

A great demo of the new sounds in the TR-8S v2.5 update by Amazing Machines

Great tutorial! I’ve only used mine stand-alone so far but will try out the MIDI tracks this weekend.

I demo’d their VST’s a couple of years ago but find the GUI’s to be too small to be usable on a Retina display. They might have improved it with the update but I already own ABL3 (and several hardware 303 synths!) so will probably give it a miss.