"Since 2003, Roland’s MV-8000 has been a coveted centerpiece for many of the world’s greatest hip-hop and R&B producers. With its powerful hands-on features, and its ability to incorporate a VGA monitor and mouse, it brought the best of the hardware- and software-based production worlds together. Today Roland sets a new standard in production power and flexibility with the MV-8800.Complete production solution, from beat creation and multitrack recording to mixing, mastering and CD burning
Tight integration of drum machine-style pattern recording and DAW-style linear recording
Realtime control of audio pitch and time, groove quantize, and pattern/song arrangements — great for both studio and stage
World-class sound library pre-installed on the internal hard drive
Legendary Roland instrument and effects models onboard, including TR-808, TR-909, SRV reverb, SDD-320 Chorus, SBF-325 Flanger, Boss BF-2 and HF-2, and RE-201 Space Echo
Three MIDI ports (IN x 1, OUT x 2) for connecting external MIDI devices
Color LCD with icon-oriented interface
Accepts external VGA monitor (optional) and optical mouse"
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Is this the first place that Roland has ever released virtual 808 and 909 models? What a strange place to put them, I would never buy this thing. I wouldn't mind the SBF and Space Echo models either, really wish they'd do plugins a la Korg Legacy...
ReplyDeleteWell, virtual 808s and 909s have kind of been done to death at this point. If this was 1997 instead of 2007 it'd be one thing, but...
ReplyDeleteNot sure where you've been, but in the world of real music that real people actually listen to, the 808 and 909 are as popular as ever, and there have never been proper virtual software models (sample sets yes, models no) of them done. Rebirth is the only one I can think of, and that was primitive and mostly sample based... Novation had the virtual hardware Drumstation, no clue why they didn't release a software version. I believe one of the 303 plugin emulator companies is doing a drum machine... that will bring us to one viable, professional, supported plugin emulation, whenever it's released.
ReplyDeleteI understand they might not be the cutting edge of drum sounds, but then the Minimoog isn't the cutting edge of synth sounds and there's plenty of demand for emulations of it. One good virtual 808/909 software model from Roland sure wouldn't suck to have, even in 2007...
There is this.
ReplyDeleteWHere are you guys getting a virtual 808 or 909 from? The MV8800 comes with Samples of the 808 and 909... that's it, no emulation...
ReplyDeleteIt's more than just mere samples because all of the knob parameters are recreated. It's the 808 same set as the MV-8000. You are obviously not an MV user.
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