In my opinion, yes, it’s worth every cent. It has quenched any thirst for an OG for me. I haven’t touched the sampler part yet and have had zero crashes. Depending on your projected usage scenario the minutae of slaving it, timing, etc. might be worth looking into, but overall, compared to some other hardware I’ve bought, it’s a very mature release.
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If nothing has inspired you I wouldn’t buy it. That’s a general rule I live by when it comes to buying gear.
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Its expensive (but worth it in my opinion), that said, you need to be 100% sure its for you before parting with your money, and it sounds like you are not 100% sure…so just wait- they will only get better with upgrades and probably cheaper and/or more available second hand…there is no desperate ‘need’ to buy a drum machine, just desire!
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I bought a MFB pro 501 and the TR-1000 within a few days of each other and I think the former is more fun and useful for my music than the latter, but I still love having the TR-1000 because it’s so versatile and I love the OG 808 sound. So it may not be the best drum machine in the world to your ears but that’s okay.
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I wouldn’t buy it if it hasn’t inspired you.
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I think it’s probably the lack of decent demos, rather than the machine. Loads of stuff out there where they’re not even recording line outs.
I just paid, it’s on its way!
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There are excellent demos on Roland’s Soundcloud. Anyway, congrats!
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SHIT I thought I’d found my in, I was going to say “give me their number I will take your preorder” lmao
Would have traded my christmas bonus for one already if I could find one! Have fun duuuuuuude
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Received mine yesterday, what an instrument!!! It’s the best sounding drum machine I’ve ever used and I’m starting to whizz around the menus etc now too so already building muscle memory (seems a lot more intuitive to use that the Octatrack/Tonverk … less button combos).
Anyway, I have a question:
I thought it was possible to have different length sequences for the same instrument on two different variations (I got this impression by the visual feedback in the screen i.e. press ‘LAST’, then press ‘A’, ‘B’ etc for the desired variation (the screen then shows this selection) and then finally pressing an Instrument channel).
But it looks like the length of the sequence is common across variations for the same instrument which is a bit of a shame for what I want to do (prime number sequence lengths for different instruments e.g. kick 17 steps, HH 19 steps, Snare 23 steps, Rim 29 steps).
Has anyone found the same thing and come up with a way around this (if the sequence length is common across variations for the same instrument)?
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I think you’re limited to 16 or less steps.
Press LAST STEP + name of instrument and you’ll be able to set different lengths per instrument.
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Thanks, yes, that’s what I’ve been doing.
Thinking about it a bit more what I hoped can’t actually work because I’m essentially wanting to chain two variations together to extend the full length beyond 16 but I realize now mechanically that couldn’t work. I work a lot with trackers … anyway, all good. I think using the fills with odd step lengths can offer something in the way of what I would like
Mine just arrived 
Edit: First impressions, just running through the demos and making a quick OG 909 pattern, is that it does indeed sound really good.
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I encountered this with some degree of disappointment as I like playing with polymeters.
Step length is a track setting so common to all variations. The only workaround I can think of is to replicate the instrument on another track. A very limited workaround obviously but …
I think the drum sounds and fx are near perfect (for me) and although there are still some frustrations with the software side (not as many as you may think based on the feedback!) I am 100% confident that this will be addressed as its Roland’s Flagship and their update track record is pretty good! I think we will get a lot of updates, not just fixes, but cool new stuff…so welcome along for the ride!
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I’ve been waiting for an update to the documentation that shows a list of all the destinations you can hook the LFO up to. I guess they’re still finalizing that part.
I’ve been curious whether you could set the LFO to “S&H” and then assign that to slice numbers in a sliced sample, so that random slices play every time you trigger it.
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Lfo to sample start is not an option as of today. They will probably add that one once they get the sampler stabilized.
Dont think it will rotate through slices either.
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Big thanks for the answer!
You could program the slices and then use the random sequencer mode to randomly play the slices.
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Happy 2 days into the journey and had my first crash when playing snapshots while running a pattern and simultaneously using the analog high pass filter. Complete freeze, did ignore the power on/off switch, had to manually unplug, on 1.13.
No complains, lovely machine and workflow, just wondering if I should report that crash to Roland?