hello folks, i have run into a major problem of unwanted white noise blasting through the audio signal on my tr8s. its so loud emitting from the amp or pa that its unusable. i spoke with roland and now reached the need to fix myself. could it just be lots of dust inside. considering opening it up and vacuuming it clean. i feel like must be something i can address? anyone ever encountered this? or cleaned a synth inside before?
Hey @jannor - welcome!
I doubt that your symptoms will be resolved by cleaning… Sounds more like a hardware failure.
Is the white noise present on all outputs? And the headphones out? Does the white noise change at all during use or is it constant no matter what you do? If the latter I’d suspect a broken output board or something like that. Might not be a cheap / easy fix.
I bought a 2nd hand TR-8S with a broken screen that was causing other audio issues and had it professionally repaired. Total cost for repair was less than £100 but the replacement screen part wasn’t too expensive. The output board probably will be more expensive.
Whereabouts are you based? Roland’s site shows their registered service engineers around the world so maybe take a look there and get someone to take a look at it.
Its more likely a software error, or user error.
What did Roland say?
Have you checked every output?
Every routing option?
Are any ouputs set to Boost? What are the gain levels? What is the master track doing?
What are the inputs doing? Where are they routed?
Etc. Process of elimination should help you narrow down the source.
TR8S is a deep machine, lots to investigate. And to answer your question, no Ive never had the any issue with mine. Very heavy use, actually mines quite dusty because I’m a grub, sounds crystal crispy clean.
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Agreed! Top advice from @Microtribe. Deffo check for user errors - maybe a gain staging thing that’s massively boosting the inevitable noise in the system?
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Try a factory reset if you haven’t already.
hey, that is a sad thought. I will be going to the roland repair spot near portland. i do love my machine. I’m annoyed that this happed to me. yes roland and i tried many things, the headphones yes. the cable, yes the amp, yes… the noise was still there.
thanks.
yeah, i suspected the elevated gains might be at play. however that would be annoying because i need the gains! roland worked to double check my cables , and my routing is lawless. i sent many videos. they ended with sorry its out of warranty. sounds like something internal… i have an accent stereo tuner that is dusty and has some of this noise. so i suspected dust. it is a pretty dirty too.lol
thanks
roland an i did that. no change
It’s extremely unlikely that this is caused by dust. More likely a component failure but most likely user error.
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Are you sure it’s not a grounding issue?