Well I’ll be damned - I never realised they had their own envelopes! Thank you! 
On a side note, for the OSC and PCM gens, as you can use snapshots to play notes live, I feel like they’re missing the traditional envelope behaviour where notes are held for as long as you have the key pressed. Having a set hold time is fine for programming stuff in but feels weird when using Inst Play to record stuff in live and it doesn’t capture what you actually play.
Looks like it’s velocity sensitive, too. Would be really nice if the 1000 had something like that.
hmm, I couldn’t find this in any of the manuals. at any rate, when I try that button combo on my unit, it seems to just want to copy the selected track from one kit to another. What I’d like to do is copy sequencer data from one track to another across different variations (within the same kit).
Don’t think this is possible
Though you can copy entire variations then quicly clear tracks you didnt want to retain
It’s on page 73, with all the other shortcuts
Does anyone know how to make the steps show the variation that’s playing as it plays through a chain? So you always see the playhead
I’ve found the strangest bug. I have a pattern going with a layered gen on HT using two PCMs. If I change one of the gens to a Pulse OSC PCM then the entire machine fades out to silence. Switch back to the original gen and all the tracks fade back in.
I’m trying to reproduce it with an empty pattern/kit but can’t, so I might have to send Roland the project file.
Edit: Have been speaking to Roland about this. Waiting for them to replicate.
Hello TR1K users!
My unit is about to ship soon, and after reading the bulk of this thread, I’m now very curious as to how bad/impactful this sample bug really is (referring to the ~8ms delay applied to the sample and the accompanying sound gen, if I understand correctly, on the latest firmware)
Does this mean that sample use is essentially broken, or is it not actually that noticeable? I would assume that if the sample is a kick drum, that it would be rather obvious.
I haven’t encountered this
Upon revisiting the post (Roland TR-1000 User Thread - #1377 by MikeAcid) it seems that this occurs in layered gens mode.
EDIT: Ok, reading his subsequent posts, it seems like using All tracks mode is the workaround for now. Hopefully this gets addressed soon.
Explains why I’ve never encountered it - I’ve used all tracks mode since day 1
Sounds like I will be as well!
To better understand the TR family, I looked up some videos on the original 808 + 909 as well as the TR-8S, and I was surprised to learn about some functionality on those machines that doesn’t seem to be available on the TR-1000
Performance pad! On the TR-8S, you can stay in TR-REC mode and use the pad to enter notes for the selected track. This seems 1000 times better to me than having to switch into INST REC mode and then remember which trig key corresponds to the track you want to program, and THEN have to remember to switch over to INST PLAY OR TR-REC mode after. Looks like the original 808 had something similar (though not velocity sensitive). In digging through the TR-1000 manual, I discovered that a connected foot pedal can be mapped to “TAP PAD”, which does in fact trigger the selected track. Yay! But in order to record, you must still enter INST REC mode. Boo
The OG 808 had a mode where you could add temporary trigs to sequence that would disappear after 1 pass. this seems like it would be great for jamming. Not clear if the 8S had this as well.
“P-locking” motion data by holding a step (as opposed to recording in real time). In the video (4:30), the guy p-locks a parameter for a single step, and the change only applies to that step, which is what I would expect. But when I do this on the TR-1000, all other steps in the sequence/vari chain retain the p-locked value. I have to manually lock the next step in the sequence to the “default” value. Is this broken/a bug? I can’t understand when the TR-1000’s behavior would be desirable.
Press-holding the motion REC button to quickly record motion without staying in record mode! I really wish the 1000 worked this way. I also wish this was a thing with INST REC, as I have accidentally left that on and messed up patterns countless times in just a few days. (actually, I don’t really get why PLAY and REC should be separate buttons)
At 6:00 in the video, the presenter shows how you can hold the autofill ON button to quickly choose between different fills. This is so much more fluid than on the 1000, where you have to enter the fill edit mode with a shift combo to select a different fill, then exit after. That same quick select button on the 8S allows for quickly selecting any pattern variation as the fill.
I wonder how many of these things might come to the 1000 in time…
Yeah the pad, was surprised they didn’t add that. And indeed there don’t seem to be a lot hold functions. For the morph button I expected it to do the same. Hold morph, choose morph slot.
Does anyone know what the CUR % setting does when you have two or more parameters assigned to a knob and then SHIFT+Turn knob?
Usually when you turn a knob while holding shift it shows you the current value, but when you have multiple parameters assigned to a knob the SHIFT+Turn knob is replaced with this CUR % parameter. I can’t find any mention of it in the manual and it doesn’t seem to change anything obvious.
Plocking on the 8s is the same as the 1000. You first have to record some automation some way. Then when you want a per step edit, you can hold the step and the others remain unchanged.
The P-locking behaviour you describe feels like a major PITA. That is truly bizarre and I hope Roland addresses this.
I had assumed so.
the 1K is pretty much brand new and just with a few users, so I expect a lot of fixes and new features along the way. Roland have a good record for updating and will be behind this box 100%, its their flagship.
Agree its not ideal behavior but fairly standard for Roland motion recording functionality.
I doubt it will ever be addressed
Seems unlikely. This is clearly the approach they’ve chosen for the TR-series instruments.