Roland TR8S Timing Issues Moving 5 Or More Faders at Once?

PROBLÈMES D'AMOUR Well, not everything is immediately perfect. Great love and solid partnerships require dialog and compromise and devotion. Hard to come by these days, but let's talk about the down side of the TR-8S firmware 1.02 1. CONTROLLER LIMITATION Moving 5 or more faders at once will produce a timing stumble. Here I demonstrate that this is not the case with 1, 2, 3 or 4 rugged fader moves at once, but when we get to 5 at the same time it stumbles and can't do it. I don't know if this is a firmware issue or a limitation of the CPU, but I've really got my toes crossed for a firmware fix for this. 2. AUXILIARY TRIGGER WEIRDNESS In the second clip of this set I demonstrate that the dedicated trigger out works perfectly. No problems. In the last clip I have assigned outputs 1-4 to be triggers, and then assigned tracks 2-5 to operate as triggers (output set to aux 1-4) Theoretically then, whatever is programmed on track 2 should come out as a pattern of triggers from output 1. As you can see this is inconsistent and unreliable. Again, I don't know if this is firmware or hardware, but I have my toes crossed that this is something that a firmware update will set straight. The trigger out works great, but there's something still not quite right about the triggers which come out of the assignable outputs. Could be the length of the trigger. Or possibly the voltage. I haven't measured the output so I don't know. I've communicated with Roland about this, and while I doubt they'll take me up on my offer to help, I am positive their engineers are capable and will solve these hassles fast. I'm posting this to be a part of of the general dialog about pluses and minuses and issues as well as excitement around the TR-8S. It's a really lovely machine and I've got faith that these details will soon be sorted. #Roland #TR8S #rolandaira #problemesdamour

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TR-8S - PROBLÈMES D'AMOUR

Published on Mar 18, 2018 Sunshine Jones

"Not everything is immediately perfect. Great love and solid partnerships require dialog and compromise and devotion. Hard to come by these days, but let's talk about the down side of the TR-8S firmware 1.02

1. CONTROLLER LIMITATION
Moving 5 or more faders at once will produce a timing stumble.
Here I demonstrate that this is not the case with 1, 2, 3 or 4 rugged fader moves at once, but when we get to 5 at the same time it stumbles and can't do it.

I don't know if this is a firmware issue or a limitation of the CPU, but I've really got my toes crossed for a firmware fix for this.

2. AUXILIARY TRIGGER WEIRDNESS
In the second clip of this set I demonstrate that the dedicated trigger out works perfectly. No problems.

In the last clip I have assigned outputs 1-4 to be triggers, and then assigned tracks 2-5 to operate as triggers (output set to aux 1-4.) Theoretically then, whatever is programmed on track 2 should come out as a pattern of triggers from output 1.
As you can see this is inconsistent and unreliable.

Again, I don't know if this is firmware or hardware, but I have my toes crossed that this is something that a firmware update will set straight. The trigger out works great, but there's something still not quite right about the triggers which come out of the assignable outputs. Could be the length of the trigger. Or possibly the voltage. I haven't measured the output so I don't know.

I'm posting this to be a part of of the general dialog about pluses and minuses, issues and fixes, as well as excitement around the TR-8S. It's a really lovely machine and I've got faith that these details will soon be sorted. Please see my other posts about the TR-8S to see the upside of this mighty machine!

LOVE"

ROLAND TR-8S Trigger Out Hassle Workaround

Published on Mar 18, 2018 Sunshine Jones

"ROLAND TR-8S Trigger Out Hassle Workaround
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Since the trigger out on the Roland AIRA TR-8S assignable output tracks are strange at the moment, here's a workaround:
Load a clock pulse sample onto a track and play it back out of the assignable output of your choice.

I recorded my own gate pulse, but if you need the WAV file let me know and I'll post it for you.

Here is 4 tracks playing the 1010music BitBox using trigger outs for tracks programmed on the TR-8S connected directly into the individual inputs of the BitBox.

In a way it's all sort of silly, because if I'm using the trigger outs to trigger samples, then why not just put the samples into the TR-8S, right? Well... sure, but then I wouldn't be triggering my modules would I? Regardless, this works for me until the firmware gets an update!

LOVE"