Well the great news is that it sounds friggen AWESOME to me
is the bass synth and everything coming from the tr-1000?
That is also a sad thingā¦
I love the thingā¦
But this audio gap breaks the deal for me.
Sure, others can use it, workaround it, like on tr8s, but I do not think i canā¦
Yes everything is TR1000 internal engines.
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Crazy.
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Yeahhhā¦that gap is just way too noticeable in a live setting for me. Dang.
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Well, I imagine once someone actually makes contact with Roland Engineers they should be able to tell everyone definitively whether or not this is addressable or a hardware limitation that cannot and will not be addressed. Not anticipating they get back to anybody today though, maybe after the weekend.
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Returning it then. Damn.
I wrote to Roland support.
I really dont want toā¦ But 2700 eur machine with this, I can not afford that.
I need to be able to use it to its fullest.
Lets see what we hear from Roland.
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Yes. By the way I feel the same about Assimil8or! Amazing sound.
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Can you link the deep dive? Getting mine today.
Thanks
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Thanks! Was looking for something like this
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Given whatās in the manual Iām guessing the best case scenario will be that it gets fixed but only for patterns containing the same kit:
Patterns always reference a kit. Therefore, the TR-1000 will change the kit every time the pattern changes. To cleanly do this, the TR-1000 inserts a small amount of silence when the kit is changed.
If you want to maintain the same kit across multiple patterns, change the KIT Ref SW parameter to OFF.
That just reads like thereās no buffer at all.
If if remains as severe as it sounds on the audio example my interest in this will sadly be gone since switching sounds/kits dynamically is a big part of the potential of the machine on paper for meā¦ It sounds like when you donāt quite match a sample loop to the BPM properly or something.
Iām sorry for those whoāve bought it and are disappointed, but really appreciate them bringing these things to light for those of us thinking about it. At least we can weigh up whether we can get around them or not for our use case.
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Oh noā¦.
So the manual does mention thisā¦ā¦
Patterns with same kit donāt have this issue
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Well that sucks.
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Ah OK, I thought it was affecting everything at the moment.
Even so, it does suggest itās just expected behaviour. Itās a real shame because the sound of this is excellent to me, dynamic in a way that modern stuff generally isnāt.
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I may return mine as well.
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Based on a quick try here, if the patterns use the same kit, they already switch without the gap. If the kit is saved in a different slot (even a copy of the same kit in another kit slot), you will get the gap.
I donāt usually switch drum sounds a lot within my typical usage of a drum machine, but I do note that a lot of other settings are stored in TR-1000ās kits, and some of these I would like to be able to switch more seamlessly when changing patterns.
Seems like the kit reference works to allow patterns to be recalled without automatically changing the KIT. I tried and donāt seem to get a gap under that condition.
Iām not sure this will ever impact me. I typically write a track with the same kit and donāt change during. I could see more experimental music doing this though.
TR1000 has so many outputs that for more drastic changes, Iād probably just build 2 kits inside of 1 and do switches that way. I do stuff like for B sections.
The other question i have is as a work around, could you resample the sounds, play them as a sampler and just change the samples instead?
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Yeah but if youāre playing live youāre not goi got use the same kit for the whole session. Youāre going to change kits.
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