- Make the TR-1000 the master clock (All Tracks mode) → problem solved.
- Search this thread for every timing-related post. I know it got a bit messy in here.
- Summary for you:
The TR-1000 has major latency when it’s a MIDI slave in All Tracks mode. It’s around >50ms. There’s no real fix, and I honestly doubt Roland can improve it much. They are aware of this.
You can make it feel more responsive by switching to Layered Gens mode (down to around 8ms), but then you’re dealing with significantly more jitter (which, to be fair, can have a certain charming groove). The trade-off is that your samples are internally ~8 ms late.
Firmware 1.14 added latency compensation, but it comes with another cost: it starts “lumpy/unstable” on the first beats. Not surprising—there’s no flux compensator in there. The underlying latency is still the same.
Because the TR-1000 is so good and increasingly becoming the centerpiece of my setup, I’ve adapted my studio workflow:
- For arranging/organizing and when it needs sync with my DAW, I run it as a MIDI slave, clocked by my Multiclock, which itself is audio-clocked by the DAW.
- But when it’s performance time, I switch the TR-1000 to master, and it clocks the Multiclock, which then clocks my other sequencers/hardware. The DAW is than unsynced. I use it anyway only as a tape recorder.
I’m extremely timing-sensitive, and this latency really kills the fun. It’s a big downside, but the TR-1000 ticks so many other boxes that I’m swallowing it.
A bitter pill. 