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the spec sheet seemed pretty substantial and its running an existing OS ā¦
it lacks the ānew boxā internet madness ā¦ until people see what outputs it hasā¦ and get hands on and complain about the tiny buttons.
I would say the speculation on the lighting of a product render was pretty peak:
Personally, Iām pumped from the new MPC as Iām looking for one box to rule them all, and the specs are super impressive, and I loved my 2Kxl back in the day. But the launch has been āinterestingā.
But also TR-1 
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I have an uncle who works for Roland and he told me the TR-1000 is the first device that will enable you to download analog drum machines and synths from the Roland Cloud.
Its internal structure was inspired by the RYTM - essentially a collection of analog synth components linked digitally that can be routed in different ways to create new analog synth engines.
For low monthly subscription fees you will be have have access to all kinds of analog goodness, with new synths coming out regularly. Itās going to be a real game changer
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Hopefully that new box / platform wonāt be ātonverkedā as well.
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Iām imagining/hoping this is pretty much the opposite of the homercar.jpg MPC - basically a 2025 909 with faders, no arranger, no plugins, no alternate control modes. Just a playable drum machine that sounds great.
Obviously no rational reason for thinking this, but itās what Iām going with.
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iām pretty sure he wouldve told you in confidence as heād have signed all sort of NDAās ā¦
i doubt heād want that on the internetā¦and if he sees it, heāll likely never mention anything confidential again.
but to be fairā¦ the subscription model for roland has been going for a long time, releasing hardware is no big leap ā¦ many of their synths are integrated with cloud (plugout etc). so it seems to be a natural progression.
managing expectations - how much they can deliver each month will be the more difficult aspect. (unless everyone on cloud is compatible from day 1) i wish them well.
my uncle who works at nintendo eats NDAs for breakfast
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I havenāt been under an NDA for probably 20ish years. Never signed one that lasted longer than five years. I can talk about all kinds of things that no longer matter. 
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The worst part about the d motion is that when you do try it out because itās a feature you saw like āIāll never use this but might as well seeā itās totally fun and cool. Kaoss physics pads on the new Korg synths is a much better inclusion for actual live play but I do sorta love shaking my s1 when Iām jamming on the bus like a crazy person lol.
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If the synths sound good and thereās a decent complement of different analog filter topologies to use that would be worth buying to me, but subscription required makes that a nonstarter. Could live unhappily with a plugout sort of idea that you buy once like vst licenses but wouldnāt want to have to maintain Roland cloud fees just to keep it useful.
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I also refuse subscription models anywhere I have a choice. Iād never buy a piece of hardware that relied on it.
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Whatever it is , I hope Roland can at least give us an up to date , decent reverb on it.
I donāt mind their dsp that been kicking around for decades , but they need a decent modern verb algo.
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Call me interested 
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I used to do a lot of hardware compatibility QA, Game QA (also mostly hardware/driver/etc.) worked for WHQL at MS, and other test labs. A small list:
Intel i740 Graphics Card hardware testing
Halo PC Compatibility testing
US Robotics Courier V.Everything modem cert testing
Most Ripcord Games games
Most Monolith games (No One Lives Forever, Shogo, etc.)
ATI Radeon 9800
Windows XP USB stack
Original Microsoft Surface (the big tables with projected image that ended up in some coffee shops etc.) Not the tablet.
among others, etc. etc.
Worked on some audio projects too, but mainly interface cert testing for Adobe way back. (early Audition version) That was NOT fun at all, and other than Adobe being scum and hating everything about them, I also hated working for them.
Also helped in the development of some media playback devices for the state rooms of one of Paul Allenās yachts, which WAS actually very fun. Cool group of people on that project.
I stopped working at tech companies a long time ago now though. I still do tech work (networks and systems) but for a non-tech company. I like that a lot more.
Nothing super exciting, but kinda fun seeing some of this stuff behind the scenes, and playing the odd game before release. But, it also meant I was testing for specific types of problems on specific hardware, so not really āplayingā the games exactly in the fun sense. Lots of reports to write too. 
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i bought some vsts from roland but dont use thrm because you have to sign in again every couple of weeks to keep them working. i would be quite careful if it would have to be linked to the cloud to work in anyway. i mean, what a pain if you would have to be connected to the wifi to have it running.
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Yeah, IMO thatās aboslutely trash behavior, even for a big company like Roland. Itās a piece of hardware, that could potentially be used live, or in situations where you completely do not want to be connected to the internet. I have no idea if, or how strictly that would apply to this exact device of course since it isnāt out, but that would be an instant NO!!! from me. 
That would be like me selling someone an analog modular, and then making them pay me to send them chips to activate different portions of it or something like that. (not exactly, but either way itās scummy)
I guess if Samsung is sending advertisements to peoplesā refrigerators though, this sort of thing is bound to happen. I wonāt support it. I do love my TR-8S. Iāll stick with that anyway.
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Sounds like a good troll to meā¦ āmy uncle works at Rolandā sounds like the type of lie a 4th grader would tell his friends
If it doesnāt have a screen from a 1980s pocket calculator, then Iām not interested.
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