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| tehlord |
Just think how cheap they'd have to sell it to take on Maschine though. Maschine does it all, and I'm guessing they'll be wanting to sell these things for $500-600 each.
The sweet spot for me would be a direct modelled (meticulously) re-hash of the originals built for the live performance market. That would make sense as their entire business model seems geared towards the live crowd these days. |
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| Zombie0915 |
| Its gonna be a ty rompler, like the time they marketed that they were bringing the 303 back |
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| DJ RANN |
From the pics, it's clearly a drum machine (the faders/knobs sare labelled as such) and/or sequencer. I just am praying that they did what should have been done with the electribes and made a step sequencer controller to host samples in a battery style host.
They're going to make it have VA drum sounds and a oldschool style sequencer. Could be good, the Electribe EM1 was kind of this and certainly very popular but using it was pretty unintuitive.
The dumb thing is about all the hype is that Roland got blind luck with the first editions; the 808 909 and 303 weren't originally well received and it was poor musicians buying them up second hand or offloaded cheap and bargain bucket items and then finding that you could do cool things with them if you played with them.
Ever used a real 303? ing nightmare - the manual is about as useful as drum kit was to Anne Frank. To program it, you basically had to guess what sequence of "notes" to play and see if it sounded cool or start again. Pot luck basically. |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ RANN
the manual is about as useful as drum kit was to Anne Frank. |
Outstanding. |
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| DJ RANN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
Outstanding. |
Why thank you :D I crack me up sometimes too.
So it's now been confirmed that it is a VA modeled 808 drum machine. There's no news on the connectivity (i.e. whether it will integrate with software or be some type of controller but everything right now is pointing to it being a stand alone instrument.
If you can load your own samples in to that furker and the step sequencer isn't as confusing as a bra clasp to a 13 year old boy, then I think I may have to pony up. |
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| MSZ |
| Looks ok... nothing special(for me) but serves its purpose within that live range I guess. I want to see a new electribe from Korg to blow this away. |
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| Mel David |
*Holding out for a 73-key Aira System-2 with aftertouch and 128 voice polyphony with V-Synth model onboard*
The Aira range is missing a comprehensive sequencer and sampler, or do they still want you to use Sonar for that? |
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| PaULiN0 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mel David
*Holding out for a 73-key Aira System-2 with aftertouch and 128 voice polyphony with V-Synth model onboard*
The Aira range is missing a comprehensive sequencer and sampler, or do they still want you to use Sonar for that? |
Is that actually coming out or you picked that outta the top of your head? |
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| Raphie |
| Got my tr8 today, yes it's VA, but it sounds like the dogs bullocks :) |
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| cryophonik |
| quote: | Originally posted by Raphie
...it sounds like the dogs bullocks :) |
I assume that means that it sounds nasty and hairy, with little pieces of clinging to it? Ick. |
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| Raphie |
I'm undecided yet, on the one hand it's an impressive toy and nice total package, it sounds good, but it's much closer to drumazon/nepheton in a controller than a trx0x
It misses the depth and raw edge of the originals
It's a nice 499€ gadget box but won't sell my Miami for it. |
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