I’m going to wait a couple months (and an OS update or two) and pick one up. This looks and sounds amazing.
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I don’t think it’s meant to be taken seriously 
He once called modular gear, deep pocket shite (or something like that). All fun and games.
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Don’t forget about the virtual analog, seems like lots of people gloss over that and IMO Roland has some of the best VA algos out there.
Can’t wait for Monday.
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Mick Harris… loads of respect for him…
Check him out,
Here’s an interview
EDIT, … I just find it funny, and very him. I’m as guilty as the next man in buying all this stuff.
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“This guy” - it’s Mick fucking Harris mate 
I mean as much as you might consider him an underground music legend you’re also not going to get a very nuanced take from an ex Napalm Death drummer!
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Another more niche, but awesome advantage - The nome has a clock divider. This is huge for me since the Sp1200 swing sounds much better in double time. But programming the TR1000 in double time means I have to chain AB together every time I want to make a pattern, since it’s getting the same double time BPM from the DAW. The NomeIIs 2nd MIDI port can divide the clock so it’s getting half speed. So that makes it a little easier for me to build a pattern on just 1 pattern section on the Roland, while my sp1200 is still in double time. Love that.
The bad news is I think Chat GPT lied (imagine that) and its instructions for clock offset on Nome II don’t match the menu I have, even though I am on the newest firmware. And I do not see instructions for clock offset in the Nome II manual So I haven’t figured out how to adjust the latency just yet. I do believe it should be possible though, I will update if I get an answer on that.
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it’s mick fucking harris
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Not to derail the topic but as an actual 180 turnaround it would be interesting to see what he could do with a TR-1000
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Hold your horses. If I am not mistaken Regis & Surgeon big fans and respected Harris very much…and if I remember they worked together on Surgeons mixes in the 90’s.
Found it “ Surgeon’s entry into production was also noteworthy; urged on by producer Mick Harris (Child was a fan of Harris’ Scorn project), the former Napalm Death drummer locked Child in his tiny studio, imploring him to “go mad.” The result, the self-titled debut EP, was released on Downwards in 1994, and was instantly hailed as some of the highest quality U.K. techno of its time.
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Good article here:
“Mick Harris was central – he’d just left Napalm Death, he’d started Scorn. We became friends because I worked at a record shop, which is where I met Justin [Broadrick, Godflesh, Jesu] and all these other people. It was a great bunch of people at that time, all doing their own thing. Mick said ‘Just come round my house and record stuff’. Mick had a studio set up in his downstairs toilet, and that’s where Tony recorded it. It was all because of Mick Harris, without him there’s no doubt in my mind that, for me or Tony, it wouldn’t have happened. Mick introduced us – he used to go to the House Of God. Mick told Tony, ‘This guy Karl is putting this stuff out’, I heard his stuff, and straight away I thought it was fantastic and straight away it was ‘This is what I want to be doing, this is the future’.”
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fuckin mick harris
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Ha, thats the one, old-timer. Given the fact how those records sounds…. He knows a thing or two about those f….g drums. I have big respect to Harris, Female, Karl, Tony… all that downwards gang.
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watching his playback ableton live set plus a mixer with very hot knobs, he would have better bought a TR1000 or a Tonverk instead of the vac
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Good night, sweet prince; And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
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wonderful - I love him!
all people that bought one should watch it…
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Here’s a wet yet analog 909 kit I put together as a personal starting point, to itch the Farley Houseapella / Reese & Santonio scratch:
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Vac came in handy
I just did. It didn’t really impact me since I didn’t just buy the machine because of analog sounds and that seemed to be the basis of his rant.
It does a lot more than that, or I would have passed.
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Nothings been the same since Dave died.
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