Bad Gear - Roland R-8M - Rack 808??? 

Looks good to me

AudioPilz makes better tracks as a joke than I do when I am dead serious. The track he made with this thing was a banger! What a talent.

The jam at the end absolutely slaps, that was like if Buddy Rich was trapped inside of an 80's rack unit.

He has such a distinct cadence to his speech; it's like the same 8 or so notes looped. This rack sounds so good; if only these weren't the most overly sampled sounds on the market, I'd buy one. Whoa, that end piece!

this channel is a bizarre mix of gear, comedy and wild creativity - i love it. Do you have a Patreon, 'cause I'll support you x

You're little demo sessions always sound so good. To me it confirms that a lot of the magic of music doesn't come from the boxes but from the hands manning the knobs ;)

I literally have every single expansion card made for this machine with an R8M. I should get an R8 just to round it all out.

Good one! I'm a sucker for old Roland rack mounts. The JV1080 is still a mainstay in my rig to this day.

Seriously though are we going to talk about how killer the tracks he made for this video are? Like what is this crazy prog jazz polyrhythmic metric modulation drum solo madness starting at 1:27? If you made a Patreon and shared your full tracks, I would join it in a heartbeat.

Ahh...memories. My band had an R8M back in the 90s and we loved it. The Dance card was certainly the one to have, as the 909 sounds were super in vogue in pop music. I rebought one back in the early 2000s and used it for lots of commercial and film soundtrack work. The 909 sounds used in combination with the Jomox MBase were great, as well as the same for the 808 sounds in the "Electronic" card. One cool trick is that you can use pitch bend on all of the drum sounds to create "Drum and Bass" loops just using an external sequncer. Bravo, and enjoyed the demo at the end for sure. Was that "Jazz Brush?" Bravo and Danke!

I bought R-8M after watching this video! Fortunately, I was able to purchase the ROM cards "DANCE (909)" and "Electric (808)" for about $80 each! It sounded really great! I would like to thank AudioPilz for introducing me to this machine.

Paul Hardcastle called and wants help on his new single, "20" It is all news report samples from 2020 and people thought "19" was kind of a bummer of song... "ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba Bad Gear, ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba Bad Year"

It just blows my mind how efficiently you set-up, link, use and record with all these different tools most people find bad and make enjoyable music every time... I've had my own current set-up for a few months and don't even have it up and running hahaha

4:51 damn the new Future Sound of London single sounds great

That Jurassic Bad Gear logo needs to be a sticker!!!!

For 1990, having a drum module with 8 outs and a TON of sound options (with 3 expansion slots) was awesome. This was long before the term DAW was a thing. Having 8 simultaneous outputs for drums saved 8 tracks of tape when recording and sync'ing your drum machine to something like an 8 track reel to reel (6 tracks, plus FSK/timecode and a guard track). We tried to keep as many tracks as possible virtual to avoid using up precious analog tracks.

My dad had one of these when I was a kid. He must still have it knocking around somewhere. TO THE ATTIC!

That snare has more gate than Brandenburg.

Nice - reminds me of the late 90's sitting in my friends studio as he made weird industrial techno.

So excited every time I see an upload from you!!

This is one of my favorite modules! Great tracks you created.❤

Apparently Trent Reznor used the original Roland R8 on the Downward Spiral as well as sampled drums on Akai Samplers.

Keep up the new format, think I'm not the only person who would love to see a quick jam after the bad gear outro.

This show is a blessing! I can't wait for your new uploads! Stay awesome!

As someone who likes programming synths as much as jamming, I like the idea of “gear finds a way.” ex: Emu Morpheus, all of my FM synths, etc.

Your jams this week make it nearly impossible to not like the R8M, excellent job!

Amazing as always!

OMG I love this channel!!! Such a great concept and execution. Hilarious. Great jams.

I love my R8M! I splashed out on the 808 & 909 cards and they're punchy as hell - the 12bit samples give it the same gritty tone as an Akai S950 and the humanise/randomise setting livens up hastily-programmed patterns. Multiple outs too!

Roland Never Ceases to amaze with their bad gear

The video w the neon dolphins on reverse and the lions making sexx was a true masterpiece

Love it! Great unit with excellent sounds. I have an R-5 and still think it's an incredible unit. The drum jam at the end of the video is great!

love the toms, and those hihats, amazing

Sounds absolutelly awesome, such pleasure to hear thoose really carefully selected and well threated samples. No boring overcompression and liveless fake punchiness I hear everyday in modern music / tracks.

Always a bless to see these videos as a notification

That end track is sounds like what plays in your head when you stop at Rainforest Cafe on the way home from Burning Man.

I had an R8 for a few years, quite a nice kit and good cards, great sequencer. My favorite thing was the live edit slider, which let you record in stepped automation like velocity or pitch (great for hi hats) or I think even changing the sample assignment. Almost a direct ancestor of elektron's parameter locks.

Killer episode. You really showed what is possible with the R-8M.

That was one of the best jams on the channel yet ! I have been watching since nearly the beginning, and this is really an awesome channel, very different from the rest of the crowd.

WHOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!!!! That DJ PREMIERE LINE ALMOST MADE ME FAINT !!!!!!!!!!!! GREAT VIDEO @!!!!!!!!!! 😎😎😎🎵

That snare is absolutely massive.

The tropical jam!!!!! R8M State

What a cool flashback to hear that sounds and demo songs again. Can't believe that the demo at the end felt "so realistic" back then. Thanks for sharing.

I was feeling that jam around 3:33 Kind of a Psychic TV/Fred Gianelli vibe! Very cool.

Am I alone in wondering what it would sound like if you played all the bad gear intros including the "welcome to..." together all at once in some giant arnie-moby chorus? Yep, thought so :D

It would take me at least half an hour just to get some sound out of that, massive respect as always

the two songs in the middle fully sound like 90s action cartoon chase sequences, which is probably exactly what the machine was used for professionally

Things I love to see: an upload notification from my new favourite channel!

I had an R8 for a few months when it was new - a music teacher lent it to me. Having had a TR-707 before, I loved this. It had the pattern-based UI Roland was famous for, the pads were pressure-sensitive, the sounds were great. I had the "jazz brushes" memory card, something that was unthinkable a few years before due to the RAM requirement. I can't imagine using a rack version of it, at that point I'd rather have had a sampler (which I did have, a W30). Btw, there is tons of great editing in your videos! I wonder how long it takes you to do all of that. I have to watch it on PC to so I can rewinid/pause and catch all the visual jokes.

The R8 soundset is my favorite bunch of drum samples from a single unit. I'm not a big fan of 80s retro revival or synthwave at all, but I use those samples on everything.

Excellent as usual

this is not 'Bad Gear' . It is actually an awesome unit.

R8 is truly an all time favorite! Such punchy sounds

Werdict... you are a genius!

I bought one off of ebay about a decade ago and at the time, the SN-R8-10 (Dance) card, I believe, was the rarest and most expensive card! If I remember correctly, it cost almost as much as the unit itself!! It was so hard to find! The others seemed more common. I also have a RAM card, the 4 (Electronic) and the 9 (Power Drums USA). And I remember when I first got the dance card, I couldn't access it and I forget how I was able to use it finally. Though I loved this machine, I think my favorite drum machine though was the Kawai R50e.

Cool episode thank you ! Those Akai strings were so great !

I had the R-8 and sampled all the sounds in the highest quality possible and I still use them!

I have owned one since forever. Originally bought to go with a Pad 80. Also owned a Yamaha RM50. Still use the R8M for latin percussion via stereo out. You can easily spend more on the Electronic card than the machine itself.

I love the drum jam out at the very end! This thing sounds amazing.

Your jams are spot on!

I was like "wait, I've never heard this Delerium track before," and then there was lion sex. This is the weirdest timeline, but.. did I just buy an R-8M on Reverb? Dammit.

I had an R-5, and my good friend had an R-8. Great line of machines if you dig into the sounds a bit and tweak things

this is the best channel! I love it!

I’ve done it again, I bought a R-5 because a R-8 never appeared for sale in my area, and now I’ve just bought a R-8M for the best of both worlds.

Did anyone ever build a midi user-friendly front end for all these modules?

The R8 is Aphex Twin's 808 on SAW85-92, go buy these !

OMG this is one of the best episodes of BG! At least musically :) Dude you're fantastic!

My R-8m with dance card was used on all my records made me a living I think it's pretty good and never had anyone complained it wasn't a real 909

At first I thought I had Crash Bandicoot soundtrack playing in another tab. It took me a while to understand you chose a very loud and rhythmically rich background music.

The zoom in at 3:17 was legendary.

Another great vid. I liked the sound of it even if dated. You certainly look like you had enjoyed tinkering with it!

that eclectic 90s rainforest song you did was incredible haha, love the r8 and the r8m

Love the snare

The final bonus drum solo is approved by the Creative Prodikeys demonstrator. "This is Lock and Loll!"

your videos are so cool, still waiting for the kaossilator pro video haha

That snare in your intro sing is explosive :)

yeah, for the rack space it takes up its kinda cool, i think if you were on a budget and needed drum sounds it would be handy. 80 euro seems ok. The feel feature would be nice for live jams.

I could swear the track at 4:50 was something 808 State put out. (Fun fact - they used the R-8 on most of their early 90's releases)

i had this thing... i always loved the high-hat.. they always sounded really nice and alive..

Some great early 90's flashbacks there!

Wow that Drawn Together reference.

Dated or not, I kinda like it. I get an old Ministry vibe, an that's ok by me.

This channel has the best videos ever on the entirety of RU-vid.

Interesting, very creative project!

It's micro timing on the R8 which allows more of a "human" shuffle. People swear by it but overpriced old gear as per modern times. Your videos are top 😁

Dude, I don't care if it sounds dated! Those are some sexy drum samples!

OK, OK, OK, I admit it. I've become a collector of drum machines. Cheap? Makes drum sounds? It's on my list.

That programming at the end was awesome!🎹🎧💫😎👌👍

I hate it when companies put branding on their devices like "dual cassette" or something I know it has dual decks I have eyes

It's a brave man that throws in a shakuhachi sample ;-)

Wow that drum medley at the end clearly shows you know how to shred on IRL drums IRL!!!!! Nasty!!!! 🙌🔥🔥🔥

Top gear, top video dude x

Why is this bad gear? What a snare! Would you mind making a soudpack? Btw where is the gold chain?

For years the Roland R8MK2 was my drum machine. i couldn't afford a mighty Akai MPC3000 that everyone else was using and i got made fun of at a studio once(i remember those things!!! Lol) . later i got a MPC2000xl and today i have MPC Live. and as dated as the sound i use many samples for the R8. some of them are pretty cool i think.

Excellent, thank you.

Great video again thanks! Roland thanks for all your “badgear”.

4:52 Theme song for hip cop drama. Love it!

Yeah, nowhere near bad gear for the R8m. Way better than the Yamaha RX15 I had back in the day. Today I have this module, the Electronic, Dry, and Dance cards. IIRC the module also had a card built in that the "normal" R8 didn't have. Oh, and I have the Yamaha RM50, The Alesis DM Pro and D4 for dedicated beats type sounds. Maybe someday I'll buy another Yamaha RX, but for now it's covered. And yeah, every 90s ROMPler had some drums, except maybe for the dreaded Emu Classic Keys. Pro Tip: Run the snare through an exciter - it's.. um... exciting. (You saw that coming, didn't you? I know you did.)

Please tell me you're making an album soon! I'd buy it in a heartbeat! your beats are insane dude!

That 90s new age Hippy jam was SICK