All user reviews of 4/5 for the Roland TR-8

The connection is good and sufficient. 8 reverb and delay effects are just okay but hidden feature.

UTILIZATION

The configuration is simple, editing is simple but it is an emulation of the 808 and 909 and you buy it for that. Too bad the instructions forget things.

SOUNDS

The sounds are good but have not had the 808 or 909 hard to see the difference but the dynamic is perfect.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for a week and it is very good. A supplement to my Maschine, we will have essentially a function key.

Very good value and the finish is quite nice report, multicolored keyboard is very nice.

Audio: OUT L / R + OUT L / R assignable to the side chain, phones, external IN;
MIDI: IN and OUT
USB.
Effects: accent, reverb and delay assignable to or not an instrument. Pretty average but dosing finely it does not shock too.

Buttons, knobs and sliders are quite nice. On aesthetics is based on the tastes and colors of each ... I found I not so bad and the quality is more serious than the pictures or videos may not suggest.

Function "Christmas tree" on standby, which borders the taste without ever reaching fortunately deactivated because if you play in a dark room you will take full peepers!

The sounds come from modeling, not editable via PC. There are 16 kits available. However I could test control via MIDI in Reaper, do not worry. It compensates the lack of a little song fashion and patterns only 16 users, given the current memory capacity then I do not understand ... I think those who use live will quickly feel cramped.

16 step sequencer could not be more classic.

UTILIZATION

The general configuration is simple, no problem on that. I've never had the original TR hands but there are brands easily, it's very intuitive. Even I, who do not live I found myself enjoy myself with no particular desire to compose.

Editing fast sounds (bank, you can not use a kick and snare 808 909 for example simultaneously), and settings associated with each instrument are effective, as the assignment of effects. I deliberately do not speak the scatter useless to me.

The manual is clear and sufficient? Pardon? I had to miss a trick or when the manual was missing from the box ... Just a quick start guide to the basics. Point list of banks or presets, nothing about advanced features. Not even a pdf on the Roland site! But my good sir, there are hidden functions see! Of course, dear Roland, but imagine that you buy, say, a car. Property. And to access an accessory function, eg down a window, you should activate the left turn (to the left pane of course) while holding down the search button of the radio stations and disengaging. It would mess, right? And if in addition the user of the body does not explain the manipulation? Ben TR-8 is a bit like that ... Thumbs manual level. To be honest I think I would have been a bit more forgiving if there had not been a month and a half before the release of teasing.
It leaden severe note use damage.

SOUNDS

Highlight of the BAR. The sounds are very good, not breathing and good dynamics. Sounds! As I said above I do not know the original but I do a lot of DIY analog and I'm not at all disappointed by the TR-8. Let's be clear, digital spring side, but very quietly and the overall quality of sound is excellent. Are they realistic? Yes I think so, especially encompassed in a mix.
I have no particular preference for sounds, each bank should suit a particular style but all are in good order.

OVERALL OPINION

As usual I post my opinion after a limited use to reveal the ergonomics of product facing my little fingers and my little brain. In this case I have the TR-8 week.
Not testing, but on this one the net resources are abundant!
The +:
- Sound quality
- Emulation appears faithful to the TR 808 and TR 909
- Intuitive
- The effects of average quality but have the merit of being present

The -:
- Manual (rather a quick start guide) poor
- No song fashion
- User memory (very) poor (incomprehensible in 2014)

In the end the price / quality ratio seems good and I would do this choice if the opportunity represented.

see manufacturer

UTILIZATION

lots of things that are abused in 2014 ....

the kit: everything is in real time so the kit saves only the sounds selected (eg 808 or 909 kik) but no settings! if I put the compression 3/4 on an instrument I will find the compe 3/4 of all the kit of this instrument, in either this is not so bad except that the volumes are not equivalent, the kik and snare 808 for example, are much weaker than the 909 so if I change my live kit I should darken the volumes may take a lot of volume (about 1/3) or lose Next if I spend 808 a 909 or vice versa, the same for the other sounds that are also not in the same volume, the clap is much stronger than the rest so that tom is rather low (volume always) ... for use in live live (improv) but it just go for tracks well done in advance it is more complicated to manage ...
fader and therefore function (pitch, comp, attack ...) not registrable.

then the machine offers more interested roll-type "notes repeat" from AKAI, but still impossible to record in real time, the function does not work when we clicks of the "rec real time".

good except that 16 units of 32 measures (2x16) but that was said from the outset ...

places to put a function to create a random pattern (not but frankly what), a beat repeat that makes something in the zeitgeist but what does not control and led in all directions so "at disco Boris "they could settle all its little details that I find important

otherwise control the beast in the afternoon with an external sequencer's going pretty well, recognized exchange program. (Control changes not tested)

sidchaine: rather anecdotal and sensation floss pig in all, understand the not very subtle ...

pad: moderately susceptible to techno is good for the aphex twin your talent moocher rate of speed will not serve you much, prefer a good master keyboard (for me a dx-7)

SOUNDS

fortunately here it goes well the sounds are really great with potatoes, but do not expect to leave the beaten path, 808 and 909 only sounds but again very convincing.

I repeat myself but damage to his abusive difference between the sound level even if they are not so strong in the studio will be magnified on a real sonno concert ...

OVERALL OPINION

we had promised us a TR directed towards the future, apart from the led, the sidchain and beat repeat it is not so! however for a price of 500 euro you will have the sound of the 808 and 909 as real, better than any other plug or copy and it is not bad at all considering the price. the significant details have been overlooked when the useless thing is not forgotten, the machine is clearly made for the start (although the former will appreciate) are aesthetic and are manual (or we will explain what a sounds ...) the shows.

I'm not disappointed with my purchase even if decontextualized sounds 30 years is clearly not obvious ...