Definitely! With all respect to those who share their passion for clocking issues, they would deserve a proper dedicated safe place where they can debate endlessly about technical details between peers.
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Also, as weāve seen here, clock (un)stability is not a uniquely TR-1000 thing. Given its own thread, people would be free to compare clocks of different devices and discus solutions without worrying about going off topic.
But at the end of the day, the amount of time Iāve had to think about the 1Kās clock or buttons while using it is exactly zero. Yet the two easily make up the majority of this thread. Thatās not a great situation and at some point the only remedy is flags.
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Appreciate itās not bothering everyone as Iāve said previously but this isnāt academic and Iām not here to debate clock philosophy of other devices endlessly - if the TR-1000 was stable I would never have posted at all - these issues are 100% TR-1000 related and shifting it to a general clocking topic seems odd ??? But obviously the mods will decide. Iām happy either way.
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Fun 
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Tonight I decided to load the stock sample loops on a few tracks and assign FX to the different voices.
Iāve been using 1K for tracking drums, and not so much for performance.
Feels like I picked up an entirely new machine.
Curious to know what are your favorite effects you like to use on the different voices?
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Thatās awesome! Are you willing to share some results?
Phaser and flanger get used a lot, nice and liquid. Would love a per-track reverb but I tend to use the delay as a workaround, which is okay when un-synced.
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Definitely. Iāll be labbed up this weekend. Has been hard finding time with work and time off as of late.
Want to test one-take recording, since Iām clearly not the type who likes to sit and arrange.
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How are you finding it to gel with your recent acquisitions?
Youāve picked up some unique sounding machines as of late.
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I still love it. Havenāt given it the attention it deserves recently. I found it a little clunky when I made a pattern on it yesterday but thatās because Iām out of practice.
One thing Iāve learned over the last few years is that the most important aspect of an instrument is what you become inspired to make with it, and somehow the TR-1000 always inspires me to make stuff Iām happy with. 
I love the sound and the interface, samples sound awesome on it and the performance features add a lot to the experience. So yeah, I love it.
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Right on. I keep watching for the videos where you have the Monomachine and that one game-sounding synth (I forget the name) all in the same jam with the TR1K.
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How are you finding the sync issues? Do you use clock it with an ERM Multiclock or something similar? 
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I use a Nome II with mine, such a great device that thing is. Depending on the situation I have to tweak the TR-1000 sync delay but once itās done thatās it!
Plz stay here ! This 100% belonging here. And the TR-1000 timing is not acceptable. It is the worst I ever saw. And itās a drummachine ! And not a cheap one. I have devices that skip trigs trying to follow. And than all is out of phase. Layering with other drummies sounds s#+$! This needs attention, improvement and a steady push. Thank you very much for your great involvement !
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So far my biggest gripe in the workflow is the inconsistent levels between monitoring the input source and the immediate playback of samples. After sampling, the playback level is much lower than the monitoring level and when you normalize the sample itās way louder than the input monitoring. Iād love to be able to more quickly sample and assign to use right away, but I find you need to sample, normalize, assign, and reduce track gain just to get a sound in your kit. Iāve been trying to figure out if Iām doing something wrong but you can see exactly this issue in Rolandās Deep Dive video and they just sort of gloss over it by turning down the main volume before normalizing and then cutting to scene where the volume has been turned back up after assigning the sample.
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Pitch delay , but you have to get busy with lfo or step mod. Better at slow bpms too.
The staturation effect gets the most mileage from me though.
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Search my posts. I describe how to gain stage.
Pattern gain +6, Kit gain +6
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Thanks. Itās a lot of cash to be sitting under my console gathering dust in its current state TBH ā but I have faith in a company Iāve held a long-standing high regard for.
I think the TR-1000 is an ambitious project and on paper itās a no brainer. It could be a future classic. Itās not there yet though and without work it may never achieve that status which would be a shame given the effort to produce it.
As I keep saying, this isnāt about right/wrong, fun/sterile, or creative/scientific. All our toys are built on numbers. How much those numbers ultimately matter to end-users in actual usage is personal. Whatās dangerous IMO is reducing the importance of this stuff to either pure academics on the one side or myths and magic on the other. Numbers run our studios. Updates with new effects and sounds are cool to have but bolting them on to what is currently an unstable sequencer is a bit like putting new car seats in a car that needs a new gearbox. We can all have fun driving without knowing how the engine works. The fun stuff doesnāt mean the mechanical faults underneath arenāt there.
Fix the gearbox first
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Thanks. I tried and this does work, but playing back samples in the sample menu is still very quiet, nowhere near the volume of the ext in. Personally I expect a sample to be played back at the volume I heard it being recorded into the machine assuming everything is essentially set to āunityā gain (as in a new pattern/kit), but it seems like we need workarounds for that or Roland expects everyone to normalize the samples
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