These are great tips but at the risk of asking a painfully obvious question, how do you save the changes you make in the Utility menu? Shift + Write doesn’t seem to work except on a pattern and kit level. It is absolutely maddening that I have to spend ~30 seconds in the Utility menu every time I turn the machine on to switch EXT IN to Mono and various other preferences…
Its in the manual.
Write, choose SYSTEM.
Done.
aand its gone
Yeah. But should be out soon though.
Wasnt that interesting video. Im more curious if it can help with making Pattern - Kit template. It takes a lot of time to make a 1 to 1 with kits and patterns manually on this box.
I did this over the course of a couple of hours then saved a default template backup. Hoping this editor makes things as easy as click-n-drag.
Next, I hope they fix the tails being cutoff and external input dropout on kit change.
I only did half the patterns and kits. And now i need to do the other half. But i never do, and just write over the same pattern every time. Talk about laziness. haha.
Wow. This editor is somehow way cooler than I imagined that it would be. Available now via Roland Cloud.
Might be useful for some, but I cant see any use for this myself. It does exactly the same things I can already do on the TR8-S, but from a computer, looking at a screen and using a mouse. Its bascially double handling.
That’s kind of how I feel about Overbridge. Nice to have, not really for me, but certainly helps resale value.
I used the Virus TI plugin for a while, but always found it frustrating to open a DAW project that required a massive dongle. In the box, Massive was good enough. But the Virus, A4, and TR-8s are really great devices to just jam with on headphones.
Yep, unfortunatelly the only really usefull thing I would use it for - user sample import via drag /drop to the interface and then building user kits - not available. At least for now … maybe there is a easy way to access the card from the UI and drag it then to the kits. Hmmm will need to check this out …
I had a play with the editor this morning and think it is amazing. I feel that the TR8s is best when you make you own kits and it was a bit annoying to do before.
Setting up the kits is so much better now.
Exactly what i think
That’s why i use gear, instead of computer
Personally, I’m glad this exists. I don’t use the computer to make music, but I do find managing my kits and patterns to be tedious on that tiny screen. I’m looking forward to trying it.
@Fin25, he does a bit of a Gabe, but around the 8 minute mark, distortions overdrives etc. Nice stuff.
Yeah, watched it. Like it.
There’s a bit of a pattern forming between @blushresponse doing a demo video and me buying it.
What’s a Gabe?
I think it is very nice to quickly rename patterns, kits and go deep with the instrument and fx parameters. But I wouldn’t use it much for sequencing much as that is way quicker on the hardware. Nice to be able to see the sequences of all instruments at once though