Chopped Strand Audio is all about music equipment, music production, and sound. I really enjoy to work with my Roland TR-8S and I want to share my experience and my knowledge with you guys. :)
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Just ordered a second hand tr-8s thank you for your videos cant wait to get stuck into it. Do i just need a usb cable to record seperate tracks into ableton? What are all the cables i need? It says it comes with a power supply just
Some nice insights by watching your workflow, thanks 👍🏻 One thing, why don’t you copy your variations by holding ‘copy’ and press A and B, A and C, etc…?
hi , I just got a tr8s and trying to conect it to my Mac mini but my computer can't see it , can you please give me some tips how to fix it please? thank you
Thank you so much, it gives a more broader interest again for this TR. One question I am not sure to have picked up correctly in the reference manual: can you assign a different midi channel to each pist in order to let us say control 11 pists in Ableton with 11 different sounds at the same time? Something existing on Elektron machines for instance even Model Samples
thanks for all the good information. really a fan of your videos. Quick question, I'm using TR-8S with Serato DJ Pro and TR Sync function works, but I can't seem to Nudge patterns when doing so and I can't beatmatch that way. Do you have any idea why it won't work? It works in Ableton Live.
Can you assign a knob just for ext in which can control different effects for the device plunged in? Say i have a td3. Can i some extra effects if i connect to the tr8s?
This is great content for a noob like myself. A lot of other creators start at a higher level of expected knowledge. I recently bought a TR-8S, first synth I've owned. Many years DJ'ing, but live performance is a new step for me. I went through all your tutorials, but this has been my favorite content of yours I've found, so far. I knew the functions were there, but seeing how you put it all together in real time is great! Can't wait to go tinker with my machine now...
Please 🙏🏻, is it possible to have it in same time with Live : - as drumbox (with separate channels in a group) - as controller on another channel (as eg for Spire VST) - as for global project interface (for mixing faders) …and by clicking from one of those channel to another, having those upper use without having to do anything ? (Hope easy understandable)
Have the factory setups changed since this video was created. I have a brand new tr8s. I'm following this video step by step. Nothing is matching or performing the same. For instance, TR-808 pattern 6-03 is called ChirpinOnClouds. Your video it displays ----, and sounds totally different. Not a huge deal, but when I save the kit and pattern as shown. All my variations have sounds programmed. A-F all have sounds. In your video only A has sounds. The rest are empty. Am I missing something, or have things changed since 2 years ago?
Hi can you explain why when pressing sample button there's around 300 samples but instrument button has only 24+the samples 😮have I by accident deleted something 😢I only have my tr 8s a couple of days .
I just had a look and yes the samples are less than the sounds/samples in the instrument section. I assume that the sounds which are samples based only showing up in your sample library... You have for example ACB presents/sounds and those are not samples. However, if you delete something like a factory sound or so you can bring it back by reload/factory reset etc. :)
@@choppedstrandaudio4561 Much appreciated thanks 👍I'm learning every day and yes factory reset is a good friend in the beginning ,lots of knobs gets turned 😏but that way is the only way to get learn ,... Now that we are with it,is it possible to chain ;Bank 8-11-12-13 and 14 or do I have to make the button push myself ,because I like to make long melodies/... 🤗👍
That is true. Yes, you can chain the variations together. In TR REC mode just press and hold down your first A variation and press the last variation you want to chain together. The tr8s plays the variations in a row/ loop until you stop it.
Hey, very good thank you. I'm not 100% sure as I only work with Ableton. However, you might need a midi host for your Akai fire and use the tr8s software parallel to it...
Well, your pattern is basically the steps you programmed into your instruments and your instruments all together with fx etc. are your kit. If you keep your pattern and change your kit you will have the same programmed patterns but different sounds because the different kit will probably contain different sounds/presets and samples. The kit is the overall (thing) and it contains sounds with different patterns. I hope that helps
Great videos - across the board. :) Out of interest, what is the 'USER' option under The CTRL SELECT options? I can't see any reference in the manual to it.
Thank you :) About the USER option... User itself doesn't mean anything... it just reflects that you have it set to a USER preference... so you then assign a USER parameter to the CTRL control... and whatever is set to USER will control that parameter. This is also mentioned in the reference manual page 14. I hope that helps?
thanks so much! this is such an helpful tutorial (it shouldnt have to be like this but thats fine) i am a person who always likes a blank slate when starting a track. Wiped my Volca sample clean, the factory samples that come with the SP404sx are trash so I formated that quick, too! and now I can start a fresh kit with no factory patterns on my TR8S thanks again!