Roland R8 MKII pattern editing R-8 drum machine

Just showing how cool the Roland R8 sequencer is. Many just use it as a straight ahead drum machine, but it's when you start doing realtime pitch/decay/pan/nuance/velocity editing that it becomes cool.
Pitching and changing the pan and decay of the individual sounds after they have been recorded.
I used this zillions of times with Andrea Parker for her stuff and remixes we did and for my own stuff. I know the guys from Autechre and many other artists used one . Great box.
The R8 MKII has more built in sounds and more memory. Worth finding over the MKI version.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Roland
• R8
• MKII
• TR808
• TR909
• drum
• machine
• beats
• synthesizer
• analog
• sequencer
• warp
• autechre

[Bobaine]

Cool. How do I get my R8 doing this? I have no Idea.

[buchla300]

@Bobaine whilst in record mode and with a pattern playing press the page button (between the cursors) and then the select button (between + and - ) to choose a function like pan or vel or pitch. Then press and hold the drum pad you want to edit and move the data slider. It will record your movements

[lancelotdulacful]

what drum sounds are you using here?

what can you say of the Tr-909 ROM Sounds - comparable to the original ones?

thanks a lot!

[buchla300]

@lancelotdulacful Hi

These are the built in sounds and I think they are great but it's not really a perfect 909 sample. Different but nice.

[themodularmodular]

Sounds great, did you use stock sounds or any particular rom in this video? Thanks

[buchla300]

@themodularmodular Thx

I used the built in sounds. On the MK 1 you need some ROMS, on the MKII it has quite a few of the cool sounds from the cards.

[gcoudert]

This video changed my approach to drum programming, thanks. And thanks for explaining how to do it; the manual is rather unclear.

[SampleHold]

Cool.

[ColdGripHandle]

R8 was my first drum machine

[kautle]

someday.......................­..... gonna get 1