Roland AIRA Compact Series: T-8 beat, J-6 chord & E-4 voice

Finally a 303 in Volca format. Now was that really so damn hard??? And just in time for me to no longer give a shit. Would have loved it 7 years ago.

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If you’re expecting honest reviews than wait for the gear to be sold and delivered.
There’s 0% change you get a full unbiased honest review by anyone when companies send their gear.

However, Rachel did her live performance thing and did it absolutely fantastic. :slight_smile:

Finally watched the sonicstate video. I think they are all three really cool and seem to sound very nice. The T8 is a really nice package. Pure Acid on my phone gets very close though probably :upside_down_face:

Best news here. They finally dropped the aira green

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It’s funny how the beginner priced stuff rarely has beginner friend user interfaces.

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I like these compacts, toss in bag and carry along to play. Somehow they reminded me of the Yamaha Sonogenic. I think there would be more devices or the greater brethren to these compacts to come.

Please report back here on how you like the e-4!

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as someone who uses the VT-4 extensively, am also very interested in this

Yeah, I’m thinking the same thing. Will the MIDI out of the J-6 be sending full note data for the chords, or is it just for MIDI sync?

people who would like it to play a 7th chord ?

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Will do like mildew :+1:

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Roland knocked it out of the park with these fun toys.

I dont have any need for any of that whatsoever, but like @Airyck said, they will be perfect for my 2 year old son when he grows up.

So far he likes fiddling on the Deluge and on the Casio SA-46 (portability and built in speaker surely helps)…

Got him to sing in a microphone yesterday and he loved it…

So he got at least a J-6 and a E-4 coming his way in the near future :wink:

Jokes aside, it could be great for quick sketch ideas and quick jams…hopefully Roland has some more cool tiny devices for the rest of the series…

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Y’all need to play it cool. My 10-year-old wants nothing to do with synths specifically because that’s “what Dad does.”

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I believe I’ll be purchasing that E-4 some time in the relatively near future. Seems like a blast.

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Is it the first time that Roland 303 gets an easy Sequencer?

It’s more or less similar to the TB-3’s sequencer.

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This is Behringer, right? That’s why I’ve specified Roland in my question.

Roland’s TB-3

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Behringer is td-3 and td-3 mo

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