Haha, nice! I was starting to feel worried for your DJS-1000.
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HAHA! That’s the Toraiz AS-1 my friend 
You can feel bad for the Toraiz sampler. It’s currently in the corner like a kid that got punished 
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Yea. There’s not much random about the TR8S. You could set an LFO to the gain/volume to get sounds to come in and out randomly though.
Or…tap the trigs in and out yourself 
Also, if any one is looking for an 8S - Patchwerks in Seattle appears to have some
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I miss 'em a little too, but I also really appreciate that with the TR8S you have 8 pattern variations and can assign 2 of them to be fills. You have to play your variations instead of program them, which is what I think you can boil down the main differences between the machines to (playability vs programmability)
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I guess I would miss PRE, NOT-PRE, NEI-, and NOT-NEI the most due to the unique kinds of rhythmic counterpoint you can get quickly with these. 80% of the fun in the x:y types seems to be covered pretty well by the 8 variations that can be chained and auto-filled at certain bar intervals. Not a huge fan of the probability based TRC for beats personally
I’m still a bit confused about the CTRL/parameter recording. Is it right that you can only have automation of 1 parameter per track at any given time?
Is it then still possible to edit the other parameters after you recorded a CTRL line? Using the value encoder?
What if you change the parameter assigned to CTRL when you already have a modulation going on? Does the new parameter starts being modulated and the previous ones sits at the last value of the automation before the change?
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Back on the romplers 
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Oh no, I thought you and the DJS1k were 4 life!
Why isn’t the DJS1k out of sight again?
I’m not saying lack of trigcond is a killer issue, just saying that once you kind of had that potential plugged into your brain, it’s kind of hard to going to a “language” where they don’t have those words… Kinda like how German has all those crazy-ass words that are really like 5 words jammed together…
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Never know TC cud come with an update…would be killer on tr8s
Like…throatwobblermangrove.
Or Hottentottenstottertrottelschwiegermutterattentaeterlattengitterwetterkotterbeutelratte.
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I used one of the MPC Live’s Q-Links to put this little jam together. Midi clock to the 8S. THIS is my combo. There’s some old EMU Extreme Lead Rompler action to!
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The condition that you can’t be fully creative with a drum machine that does not have trigger conditions:
Schlagzeugrechnerbedingtauslöservermissendkreativblockade
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Trommelrechner*
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I’ve been looking for a name for my new minimal techno stuff, thanks.
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“Schlagzeug” means all percussive instruments including drums, which is more appropriate in the case of the TRs, as e.g. 808 cowbells are not in the Trommel family, which all have membranes. A drum computer is not a Trommelrechner, it’s a Schlagzeugrechner in my opinion. Rhythmusrechner would work too, as it does rythms.
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