Roland TR-1000 User Thread

Is it one lfo to modulate the analog filter or can you send it other modulation? Sorry mine is still out for delivery right now.

To all of you who have the Roland TR-1000 Rhythm Composer: Are you satisfied with the sound?
I realise that this is not a question that can be answered easily.
For example, when I load my Assimil8or - Rossum Electro-Music with drum sounds, I am delighted every time by the kick and the percussion, which are the icing on the cake.

So FX are completely reset each kit transition? So no reverb tails or delay carry overs?

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Basically the same issue as in tonverk. Only tonverk carries over at least the FX tails.

EDIT: went back to tonverk, could not reproduce that behaviour from the testrun with factory preset project when using everything fresh, don’t know if user error or improvement with update. Anyway. Good news. No gap here. Thx!

Old news, for reference only

https://youtu.be/mqJ55cD6HUk?si=HKz-YB1p0PZZX6w7&t=1146

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hey users. i wasnt lucky in the other chat. asking for a while ^.^

a roland ambassador said that you gotta run it as master to have the internal sync be tight. i am curious what that means. how unstable it is when syced to a stable clock, not a daw. i ask about jitter, not stable latency.

the mpc live is very wonky when running as slave. also jittery when you trigger sound externaly. more than 15 ms iirc. i hope that is not the case with the tr-1000

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Hmmm, i think tr1000 has a more obvious silence gap than tv or any other elektron box.

I dont think its the same issue.

Yes, not the same. The TV carries at least FX over. Else it is just as disrupting from my experience.

Is the problem trails? Seems more the downbeat isnt uploading quick enough as the pattern changes.

not sure in anyone else has experienced this, or could confirm if they are experiencing this also.

I am trying to use the TR as the master clock

It looks like it has some midi setting but not as many as I would hope.

You can choose which midi channel will out put, but there is no way to disable midi note information from being sent out.

I do see setting for each voice to set which midi note it corresponds too, but when i set it to OFF, I am stilling seeing midi not data being send to the slave devices

When I change the corresponding pattern midi channel, the slave devices are picking up the midi channel change, but i have the same issue

TR8S does this as well and I find it really annoying. It forces creative transitioning between pattern+kit as a song in a set. It’s the biggest gripe I’ve had and I don’t think it will ever be fixed. They would need to implement some sort of buffer so that tails can decay naturally. Sadly, it’s just a hard audio cutoff when changing kits on the fly with a pattern change. The TR8S still stays in time though. So there’s no sync issue.

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In the three hour deep dive, the rep explicitly mentions that patterns are associated with kits and that if you want to have one kit across all patterns there is a special setting for that. It’s as if he doesnt acknowledge the bug at all.

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That is a known behaviour from the TR8S. You can disable kit change on pattern change. The problem is, a lot of people want to have 1 pattern = 1 song with 1 unique kit. You can’t really change the pattern then manually change the kit after the fact. The same issue occurs; a hard cut of all audio.

Elektron boxes, for the most part, don’t do this or have a configurable behavior for audio tails.

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So a ā€œclassicā€ setting as in MD after all (or ā€œperformanceā€ as in JoMoX boxes)? That would be great.

There is a setting on the TR1000 so all patterns share the same kit.

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So, this is not a bug but modern (kind of annoying) TR behaviour. However, if one wants to go all Jeff Mills, there is a possibility. Anyone with the TR-1000 at hand: are p-locks disabled then?

So, if you are remaining on the same KIT, but changing just the patterns - is the audio gap still present?

Same as the TR8S. I don’t, however, need 8 banks of 16 patterns using the same kit for a live performance. I, and others, would sure love to be able to have a kit-per-pattern, transition between the pattern and kit, and not have the extremely annoying and abrupt audio cutoff.

That setting addresses the issue by ā€œnot letting you do you the thing that you want to do.ā€

It’s highly doubtful that Roland would or could implement some type of live buffer that allows the tails from an outgoing kit to decay naturally between changes.

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On the TR8S, no. Likely the same on the TR1000.

The issue occurs when changing kits. This would happen if you did a kit change on the same pattern while it was playing. It’s a hard audio cut. There’s no timing issue. Just an audio gap.

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Yeap there are no audio gaps if the kit is same.

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Did not know that about the 8s. I never used the global kit setting, but I never used my 8s in the way you describe.

So you think Roland won’t release a fix for the 1000?

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