For what it’s worth I think the vocoder on the 404 sounds really fantastic. Like one of the best I’ve heard, especially when you input chords. I have only seen the E4 demonstrated on YouTube because I don’t own it, but I’ve always come away with the impression that the E4 vocoder is a different algorithm that doesn’t sound nearly as good to my ears.
I DO own the VT-4, and similarly I don’t think the vocoder sounds as good as it does on the 404.
Very interesting feedback.
So I will send back my E-4 and buy a SP-404MKII.
I’ll keep my S-1. I’m in love with this little machine.
Could you help me out by either linking to the post (or the search terms you used to find it) or else telling me more, if you remember ?
I’m very interested to know if that file screenshot is direct from the T-8 file, or else indirectly via some kind of extraction script/program.
EDIT: Sorry, I think I found the information I need, if not the exact same post you found.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Roland/comments/vxki8b/roland_t8_saves_pattern_in_plain_text_format/
Now I’m wondering if the S-1 has the same feature.
Yeah, that was the source. Still can’t figure out how to delete trigs from the hidden Cymbal track when sequencing external voices from the T-8.
Do they do anything?
Check this out, might be what your after:
Not on the T-8, but they do trigger crash cymbal on my roland sound modules. Randomize rhythm pattern populates the hidden track.
I would have thought, based on the reddit post above, that you could edit that column to be all note-off ?
Much appreciated. Not sure what I’ll do with the info, but there are certainly possibilities 
is there a way on T-8 to change the individual midi notes each channel sends out?
crazy crazy S1 swell behavior: slow attack, slow decay, slow release, hold on, you can use the sustain knob to bring notes back in and out, indefinitely, they swell and decay in and out at the attack/decay settings but sustain knob controls the ceiling up/down, like the conductor’s arms, you can han zimmer this bish all day wtf 
(and if env filter is on, sustain knob does the filter sweep along with the crescendo/decrescendo)
Where do people in the US get their knob covers for these little guys? I have some but I’ve got no idea where they came from. I coulda swore I posted somewhere about the covers I got for my S-1 and T-8 but now I’m coming up empty and can’t find the info here or in my emails.
i got mine from Thonk when i had my S1, didnt love the shipping cost but considering the size and weight it wasnt the end of the world. it was £8.10 for 19 knobs and £8.50 for shipping to west coast USA
Would be great to have an update for the J6, in order to:
Have the display show the Chord Genre, as well as the Style and Variation. For the Chords you could use the first two characters to indicate the style (Pop = PO, Jazz = JZ, etc) and the second two characters the number (Pop 01 = PO00, Pop 02 = PO01, etc). For the Style and Variation it could be similar, with the first two characters indicating the Style (Arp 1 = A1, Arp 2 = A2) and the second two characters indicating the variation (Arp 1 01 = A101, Beat 1 01 = B101, etc.).
As is you’re left in the dark regarding the Chord Genre, and the Style and Variation. Seems like an update would be easy enough, and it would greatly benefit the device.
Does Roland read these forums? I hope so! 
learning to use all 4 modules I’ve velcro’d to the top of my machine by daily improvising using the internal demos. first recording of today’s jam. https://www.n1m.com/bytet/song/1159252-live-jam-1
Is it possible to sequence t-8 bass using digitone?
Yes. Note, gate length and velocity only. No cc control.
Does anyone know of a way to get the J-6 to transmit its four voices of MIDI on separate MIDI channels? So that, e.g., lowest voice is channel 1, next is channel 2, etc.
This doesn’t seem to be possible within the J-6 itself, but I’m wondering if there are any other hardware devices that could achieve what I’m looking for. Thanks for the help!
J6 or T8?
I heard of drum channels getting different tracks because they are separate in the unit… which is different than polyphony… but the j6 only has one track, and one midi channel.
In terms of hardware… any groove box that lets you choose what sound the tracks are would accomplish this… syntakt, tr8s, tr6s, mc101… then you could set each voice to its own monophonic track to seperate the voices…
I hope Im helping… this is just me brainstorming
You should be able to programme the RK002 to do this. Take the J-6 midi out via the RK002 (you’ll need the appropriate adapter) into your target synth.
What you essentially want to do is take each successive midi note on the channel that the J-6 emits on and round robin multiplex it out onto 4 different channels. Thinking about it I think this is what the RK002 firmware that adds “polyphony” to the Digitakt is doing, so you might be able to just repurpose that one without having to code your own. Definitely worth a try.
There’s probably also a few iOS apps that can achieve this with the midi out from the J-6 on USB-C.
Edit: I’ve just looked it up on the retro kits website. The firmware to try is called PolyMUX I’m pretty sure it does exactly what you’re asking for.
