Roland TR-1000 User Thread

Just a little to say here, Just had it running both as MIDI master and Slave between TR-1000 and DNII.

All ok and very steady, including where the DNII is providing additional layers of percussion.

When the DNII is the master, then I have needed to select Track Sync-Layered Gens on the TR-1000, but either Track Sync setting works with TR as master.

Will try all this from my Cirklon, which I usually clock either internally or from DAW via Expert Sleepers Silent Way in a bit.

As an aside I am really loving the TR-1000 sound. Slowly learning, after a bit of head scratching and manual reading, I managed to get the side chain working before, what a brilliant feature.

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I am using Live as master- TR-starts when I start Live, temp synced to Live etc. Having fun playing TR sounds with keyboard- velocity sensitive, great for analogue drums!

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at 2:52:05 he talks about editing the Morph when in ā€œall knobsā€ and then reduces the kick decay using the track knob, not the value encoders. I can’t get this to work, and he never explains what ā€œall knobsā€ is or what mode that refers to. Anyone help me out with what he’s talking about? Seems like he should explain what ā€œall knobsā€ means

Glad to read your positive results. Seems to be differing experiences with sync then.

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oh thank you I appreciate this. I was only looking at the owners manual, which is only 36 pages.
Didn’t realize there were more than one manual

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I believe ā€œall knobsā€ refers to: you can edit using the track’s knobs AND the knobs below the display (known as C knobs).

What you’re doing should work. I would just make sure that MORPH is brightly lit solid and the fader is in position to hear the effect.

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Different use cases. If you just sync the tr1000 to the daw it will work, just be a bit latent.

If you want other gear synced to the tr1000 while it’s synced to the daw you will need a sync clock with multiple outs because the tr1000 will play behind everything else by a bit.

Or you will have to manually pull the recorded t1000 audio forward by a little each time.

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I’ll try again but it wasn’t working. Put it in Morph edit, tweaked knobs that had assignments and nothing would stick to the morph. If I use the C knobs on the right they work fine. Same with the analog FX, none of those changes affected the morph

I am just playing, nothing scientific, just ā€˜sounds’ OK to me dropping loops in to the playing drums …other people may have far more exacting needs, I’m used to syncing stuff manually with Euro, CV and my sloppy live playing :slight_smile:

You can offset clock sync delay in Live but I havent messed with it.

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Also, in MENU > PROJECT > GENERAL: Make sure Morph Edit Mode is set to All knobs.

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The cirklon will solve for this because you can offset the machine to play a little earlier than your others. It’s a good, albeit expensive fix.

The cirklon of course needs to be the master clock. The tr1000 master clock is not ready yet, ime.

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Nice spot! Thanks.

Fully hardware here so would be syncing from OT. Fine going by ear, as long as it feels instant when OT or DNII is master.

just found something cool others might find fun

you can sequence the panel FX settings (p-lock style)

when you enter the Accent sequencer lane it strangely doesn’t allow you to change the Accent setting on a per step basis, but a Motion Record menu pops up, where you have four pages to sequence the Reverb, Delay, Master FX and Analog FX per step

its only the same setting that appear on the front panel, but its cool that you can sequence the FXs this way

you do have to turn on the Motion record to actually hear the changes in the accent lane

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This machine is insanely deep.

Do you all remember where to set the input level for sampling? The level is low which is ok, but I feel like it can be adjusted.

Normalize on this works incredibly well so it doesn’t matter much, I just like to learn these machines as deeply as possible.

Yeah I dont know why Roland does it , because once you have the reference the owners manual becomes redundant.

Been like that for years, owners manual is more like a quick reference, I don’t get it ?

But , yes always download the reference, which is a confused term , because it sounds more brief , but is actually the one with all the useful detail.

I’m kind of fond of Rolands Idiosyncrasies or maybe I have Stockholm syndrome?

Oh you’ll have the ā€˜separate’ update manual to download next once they start doing that :wink:

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If the DAW is the master then I also use silent way to derive multiple MIDI clocks with different relative adjustments (Silent way will allow for +/- 100ms of clock offset on a per output basis, but while CK notes and programme change can be advanced, CK MIDI clock can only be delayed if I get it right).

I usually also have a 2 bar period to stabilise everything prior to the track starting.

It’s nice to get it all working tight enough. But sometimes I confess that I just get ignore minor sync/latency hassles and line up the recordings in the DAW after too. In fact I quite often do that when overdubbing existing projects. :smiley:

Anyway if TR1000 is happy being sync’d from CK with layered gens set that will probably work for me. Will try later today.

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Pretty cool that all 10 tracks can be trigger outs with all the ratchet/probability etc …may have to sell my Erica Drum Sequencer now (which is TR style)…I could end up making money on the amount of kit I can sell after acquiring the TR-1000 :slight_smile: :wink:

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Unless I’m missing it, the reference manual doesn’t seem to mention what the voltage is on the trigger outs (or the analog clock outs).

Anyone know?

I havent tried it yet, but it sounds like you can send VSTs from your DAW through the analogue fx etc in the TR over USB (then back to the DAW via a track individual out on the TR to your DAW IO?)