Roland TR-8S Berlin Sessions: Catnapp 

This has made my mind up on getting the TR8S. Catnapp has shown just how drum machines are incredible inspirational tools in the right hands. Too good.

By far the most musically interesting of these. Goes her own way rather than 4/4 for 4 minutes. Respect to Catnapp.

I love you Catnapp.

I 👍🏻 like this a lot

one of the better demonstrations love it

Funny to see the negative comments. I love the fact she uses space rather than filling the canvas with metronomic cliches. Congratulations Roland - I applaud the artists you chose for this launch. They are all great because they are all choosing to work in new sounds, with new ideas. This is clearly a fantastic piece of performance kit, lovingly designed for live use. I think some people might be missing the whole point of this machine. If you want standard dance floor grooves then the older TR-8 model or more recent TR-08 will be more to your taste. As someone making and performing electronic music for over 10 years, this is very exciting specifically because it CAN create weird, wonky, asymmetric, alien music. So yes, it makes perfect sense to use sound artists rather than pop musicians to promote it. /Rant

Great performance

Fucking excellent, maximum respect. Pure electronica live. Big up!

incredible performance! what a creative use of the instrument

This is brilliant! Beautifully minimalist and interesting. The misogyny from synth bros in the comments is totally unsurprising but super gross.

Is the mic plugged into the Roland machine?

finally somebody showing more creative use of the fx...

Ask Machinedrum to jam on this.

NI massive preset sound on keys :)

YO! Roland super DOPE curation of artist for these sessions. Catnapp this was a beautiful thing... "A Revolution is not a bed of roses." -Fidel... Yep! It's a dirty job, but somebody gotta do it. Keep Bangin Ladies!!!

Love it

Nice track.

Amazing!

awesome jam

fuck these videos make me mad hungry for mine... waiting and waiting for the cash to arrive

Tb3 or bassline she used for vocal?

Nein oh nein the hate oh hate

WELCOME TO MCDONALDS CAN I TAKE YOUR ORDER!!!!!

Dusty boi

You'd better start cleaning or cooking, because you need to have an ear for music

This must be the superlative of "boring shit"....

Not sure if it is a good idea to make music which breaks most reifications of the current era.

Riveting

love the machine, but please Roland, delete this video! pure anti-promo!

This is so boring

No se que es lo que esta mal, si la interprete o el TR - 8s, cada vez los músicos y el sistema electrónico va de mal en peor.

Great gear. No talent.

This must be a new Genre... Minimalistic Minimal or so.. or minimal talent, just sayin.. Sound effects dont make good music... Best example right here.

dammmn FINALLY a demo of something that isnt 4 on the floor and is INSPIRING to boot

Love it.. Already sold my TR8, ordered one of these yesterday. This video just reinforces how much more use I'm going to get out of this thing... :-) Off to check out more Catnapp now too...

oh yess! this is the best demo of the TR-8S ... is this track going to be available complete?

I went through my set today, I use a five track looper to perform/fx stems along with two Mother 32's. My rule today was to only ever play two tracks max on any session and it works great, there's sonic space, every sound has a purpose and the ear wants a little more. I like minimalism.

You ROCK Catnapp! 🤘

Very good. Love the minimalistic groove and all of this with just the tr 8 and a synth. The girl knows her stuff. Retro feel with punk influenced vox and ace drum impro.

I liked this one the best. needed a BASS element other than that pretty avant-garde. and unpredictable F-R-E-S-H

I really like this track, I think it's a pretty unexpected and creative beat! Go Catnapp!

I wonder how I missed this one in the series! Fantastic!

Love this one! Awesome!

amazing

Sick.

Still kicks

Pretty good when the synth comes in.... An original artist (and lovely girl) with her own musical style.

Top notch performance! Anyone know what kinda synth shes got under her right hand? 25 full-size keys, seemed touch sensitive.

Fuckin dope

Roland fuck me dead what are you doing?

Does anyone know what keyboard she is using for the chords?

amazing set!!!!

Respec, personality++++, 163 dislikes is respect, means you pissed off puritans, :D

Argentina,linda y super talentosa!

what's the "point" of (besides) mumbling? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ib_5nnWbb_4.html&t=137

I like that saturation on the kicks, deep synth and transitions in the content, this track has the depth and panoramic vibe, good job!

My Subwoofer loves the kick in the beginning, my hair drys within a splitsecond. 😂

I have to say this is the best one out of all of them, gives me more of a reason to purchase it now.

1:28 and onwards - starts getting more interesting. Ain't all that bad.

Nice distorted drum sounds, I guess the there is a distortion effect inside the TR-8S unless they are part of the sampled drum library or a loaded sample? Anyway they sound good, nice one. 👍

yes make it weird ..... normal people don't get it and it makes them angry ........ if you can't dance .. even in your head ...

Talent 👏🏼👏🏼👌🏼

very cool shit

Hotness.....!!! real nice! :)

in love with this

this is cold blooded

Nice ... makes it seem way more interesting than all the other the demos i saw so far

🍁💚💛❤️🍁

nice jam !

I like this, but it'd be nice with just a pinch more going on.

Ampiiiii

This is beautiful! I wanted it to never end. Best demo of them all! I watched a few of the other girl demos before this one and when I saw this demo was another girl, I almost skipped it. But damn!!! This is an amazing demo that actually makes me want to buy this drum machine.

Funny how they gesticulate as if a fader has just burned them. At least there's a couple oh chords, unfortunately your third chord of not related to your previous ones harmonically. Basically, this is awful.

your hairdresser could have made this...

A great machine, but this music is a bit boring. It's very repetitive and there's no tune. And the dancing isn't very convincing, there is no point moving to the beat when you are just adjusting a few knobs rather than playing an actual instrument.