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For sale Roland TR-8 Rhythm Performer Drum Machine

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I'm going through a divorce right now and I need as much cash as I can get, so I'm selling most of my gear. This drum machine is in like new condition and I'm selling it for exactly HALF of new price. This machine can do so much that I'll just let Roland do the talking. It's barely been used, as I can no longer afford the recording set-up I planned on buying. This has all the classic tones from Phil Collins to House and Hip-Hop, plus everything in between.

Two iconic Roland drum machines in one
Few sounds revolutionized the world of electronic music like the earthshaking boom of the 808 kick or the staccato build of the classic 909 snare roll. Thanks to Roland's Analog Circuit Behavior technology, the AIRA TR-8 drum machine not only delivers all of the authentic TR series sounds you know, it gives you a level of control and flexibility never before possible. For starters, every instrument on the TR-8 includes Tune and Decay knobs, giving you a massive range of tone and dynamics.

The Bass and Snare instruments feature dedicated Attack and Comp controls, allowing you add impact and punch to your sound, without relying on outboard gear. Add gated reverb and delay into the mix, and you're golden. A collection of 16 kits utilizing 11 classic TR instrument sounds gets you up and running right away, and there's plenty of room to create your own kits as well.

  • Analog Circuit Behavior technology delivers the authentic sound of 11 TR-808 and TR-909 instruments in 16 kits
  • Shape your sounds with Tune, Decay, Attack, and Comp controls to get the dynamics and tones you need
  • Built-in gated reverb and delay effects let you add depth and dimension to your sounds, without outboard gear
Link to Sweetwater:

Roland TR-8 Rhythm Performer

If you have Amazon Prime here is an awesome documentary about the original 808, which this machine is the newer, doesn't cost $5k, version of.

Amazon.com: 808: Damon Albarn, Arthur Baker, Afrika Bambaataa, Chris Barbosa: Amazon Digital Services LLC

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Price: $249 plus actual shipping. It ships in the original box with power supply.


Michael
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Richie Se7en

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Hey Mike - I've been considering grabbing a drum machine and heard good stuff about these. Problem is, I've never worked with something like this, so what's the learning curve like?

Say on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being most difficult - keeping in mind that some of the lost brain cells from my youth haven't regenerated. o_O
 
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Hey Mike - I've been considering grabbing a drum machine and heard good stuff about these. Problem is, I've never worked with something like this, so what's the learning curve like?

Say on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being most difficult - keeping in mind that some of the lost brain cells from my youth haven't regenerated. o_O

It's by far the easiest drum machine that I've ever used. The 16 buttons on the bottom can be looked at as one bar broken up into 16th notes. It doesn't use velocity sensitive buttons, you set how loud the "hit" is with a knob instead. Also, you don't quantize the hits, but use the shuffle knob to to have certain hits lay back on the beat. Each hit can also be tuned to whatever pitch you want with the turn of knob as well.

For example, you can put the kick on the 1 and 3 of bar and the snare on the 2 and 4, then just start adding accent beats wherever you want. You can just hit a button for different kinds of fills, depending on the shuffle knob and you can switch between different programmed beats with just hitting one button.

I've had an Alesis SR-16 for over a decade and never wrote a beat that I liked and I wrote my best beat by far within 5 minutes of opening the box on the TR-8.

It does so much more than what I've written. I've only gotten as far as the basics to make fun beats to play along to. For my type of mind, it breaks all the beats up logically into almost a grid and I started to learn a lot about rhythm and how and why a drummer does what they do.


Michael
 

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