Anyone know if it’s possible to create slides on the T-8 bass via MIDI? The manual doesn’t mention it
There are slides, set per step. Manual explains it on p20.
EDIT: oops not via midi. I misread the question. There is zero midi implementation for the T-8, unfortunately, apart from note-pitch-velocity. With the S-1 and then the P-6 they started giving these things real midi cc control.
I’m taking that with a massive pinch of salt, several times in the last weeks I’ve seen the Google AI results with completely invented & incorrect information
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Dont trust humans! They are to much driven by feelings and intuitions… (irony)
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It’s been flagged as inappropriate… wow . A bit of text about midi and a comment about overlapping notes
Sorry for those I must’ve deeply offended . I’ll keep my overlapping notes separate in the future .
I didn’t flag it, but there’s a bit of over sensitivity about AI in these parts
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OK just to put this one to bed, I got off my lazy butt, plugged the T-8 into a MIDI sequencer (DN2 if you’re interested) and confirmed that overlapping MIDI notes do trigger a slide. There’s a bit of trial and error required to get it sounding good, but that’s a different matter.
Thanks Roland for not making a single mention of this in the manual 
Incidentally I forgot how completely mental and almost unhinged the T-8 303 part can sound with the overdrive and reverb cranked right up
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Agreed … if you (@re5et) mentioned some AI source, next time, if you need to say anything, say you googled it.
Many users and moderators of this forum have been pretty clear that AI generated content without a human touch is not welcome here. It doesn’t really matter what the intention was. Aside from that, a user had to manually verify whether it was correct anyway because the Google AI search overview is notoriously, hideously, unreliable.
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I asked DJ Shinga on his YouTube channel and he said designs, prints, and cuts his own overlays for almost everything he uses. He recommended that I do the same! Lol
I’m a fan of the T-8’s Bass synth - sync’d it up to my OT and came up with a couple of loopy things 
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Any long term E-4 users here? What are your impressions and main uses? Anyone using it extensively without a mic (I.e., line level sources)? The dead-simple looper looks mighty interesting.
I use it to quickly track guide lead and backing vocals with an sm 58 into a Boss BR 80. Works fine, however no way to save presets. I wouldn’t buy it for the looper, tried it once and it’s pretty useless. Others may have a different experience though.
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T8 received. Looking for a cheat sheet…
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Just received my T-8, I’ve been lurking on one for a while
There’s many flaws in this one, and I wish Roland would do a v2 firmware update to put it to level of the new ones (S-1, P-6) with full CC, 64 steps, motion recordings and pattern presets, one can dream! (trying the same trick as when I said MC101 would never get a preset editor, maybe…).
Still it sounds great and having a pocket 303 with drive/delay/reverb and some TR sounds is 
I don’t know if it’s just me but I find the bass cutoff range a bit limited? I’ll have to compare it to my TD-3, maybe it’s just my memory.
I almost want a second one to build the hardware Rebirth 338 I’ve dreamed of in my youth, it’s a shame Roland never tried to build such a box…
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They need to fix midi on this one
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Made some testing on the T-8 and my TD-3, using the same pattern on both that includes slides and accents. Note that I don’t have any first person experience with any “real” 303, so this is only my feeling regarding both of these instruments:
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TD-3 and T-8 have a different cutoff range: 0 on TD-3 is about 1/3 on T-8, while fully open on T-8 is abour 2/3 on TD-3. T-8 goes down more, while TD-3 opens up more. The range on TD-3 feels more useful to my ears, I always wish to open more on T-8 acid lines!
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Accents on T-8 seems to only affect volume, while on TD-3 it’s more complex (more alike a real 303 from what I’ve heard). A bit surprised and disappointed here, as I heard that accents were realistic on T-8?
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T-8 seems to have longer note decay and feel less staccato than on TD-3 for the same pattern. Slides don’t seem to have the same behavior, on T-8 it seems to automatically create a tie note in addition to the slide, while on the TD-3 tie and slides are separate things.
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Overall, TD-3 feels way more “lively” and punchy: more attack with better transients, better dynamic range and the (limited) parameters provide more nuance even with small changes, whereas on T-8 small parameter changes don’t seem to change much the sound. The T-8 also seem to always have a bit of soft saturation on the sound, even at gain 100 with overdrive disabled.
Comparing the sound make the T-8 a bit underwhelming for the 303, it will be the best for making patterns on the go but for a recording I’ll be sure to use the TD-3 as its expressiveness is way better to me.
Fun thing I discovered while playing on the T-8, pushing the gain to 200 on the 303 allows for a more aggressive overdrive (with OD off), I kinda like it better than the built-in overdrive effect.
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