TR-8S appears to have received the best firmware update of all time:
[ Ver.2.02 ] APR 2021
The version number has been updated due to management-related circumstances. Product specifications are unaffected.
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My favorite type of update!!
Oh yes, that would be cool. 202 ACB modelisation with enough parameters : the instr that would defenitly and lastly improove the tr8s 
I have also had this problem, not with the TR8-S (as havenāt had one in ages) but with every single USB audio device Iāve used. Starts off great then crackles. Changing the bufffer can momentarily fix it but always goes back to cracklinā.
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I am thinking it may be some of the plugins I am using. Itās pissing me off since it makes that popping sound or other audio like youtube in a web browser is glitchy and late. I powered off some rosetta plugins and things got better. Itās not like I am running over 50% CPU in Ableton either.
Anyone have any examples of how wild the new FM sounds can get? Is the tr8s getting close to Nord drum type sounds?
Iāve not experienced a freeze myself with v2.5, but a Freeze fix is available in v2.51
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How do yo do this?
This is the TR-8S topic. That does send the external in to the usb
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Sorry mate, youāve lost meā¦
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The T8 thread is over here: Roland AIRA Compact Series: T-8 beat, J-6 chord & E-4 voice
This is the TR-8s thread. The TR-8s apparently doesnāt suffer from the same problem. (I havenāt confirmed, as I use my TR-8s dawless)
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Oh man alive!
My mistake, Iāll see myself out 
Deleted post to avoid confusion 
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Wow, okay - I didnāt realize I had missed an update, nor what I was missing out on with the TR Editor. Both are such great editions, I was already loving the FM machines so itās awesome seeing them expand on that.
I spent a little time this afternoon building a kit with the editor and it seems like itāll remove a lot of the friction around creating and editing kits for me. I still wish there was an easier way to import & create sample kits, but I also know Iām being lazy and just need to spend the what, two hours?, organizing folders and importing them into kits.
Recently got my TR-8S to relieve the Rytm of drum duties. NOTE to all Elektron users, powering the unit off will erase any unsaved changes! I am so used to the luxury of doing that with Elektron boxes, but not on this. Lost everything i worked on yesterday.
And I must say, the sound on it is much more meh than anticipated. I thought Roland, being their baby, would have knocked the 909 and 808 sounds out of the park, which is what I got it for but now thinking i made the wrong choice getting rid of my Behringer 909 and 808. The Behringer models sound leaps better than this thing. pretty sad. My Samples from mars samples blow doors on this unit sound wise. Going to test it using just samples instead of the janky ACB stuff but might just have to buy my Behringers back.
Well, if you feel strongly about that, just load them onto the TR-8s. Donāt forget to try the FM sounds though, they slap (especially FM āsimple kickā)
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Shift + write.
Compressor on master fx.
Drive on instruments.
Mix properly.
Dry 909 808 etc sound meh no matter which version it is. Its all about what you do with it.
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I keep mine on a separate outlet from the main power conditioner for the setup now for this very reason ā too many times Iāve accidentally turned everything off at the end of the day and lost my work.
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Thatās what I am doing tonight, making kits. my real hope was to not have to diddle with samples since i mainly use XoX boxes so thought this would fix that, but samples it is.
Thereās an auto save option in the system menu.
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True, but the RD-9 for instance, with no processing, sounds really good. very punchy. I know its an analog unit and the TR is digital but still had high hopes for it without processing. Thanks for the info, i will drop a compressor on master and was playing with the drive last night on each instrument.