Roland CR8000 Voice Mod Demo Part 1 of 2

YouTube via gumielectronic
"This is part one featuring the bass drum, snare drum, rim shot, and hand clap mods. I tried to demo all the individual voice mods here but ended up forgetting snare decay, rim tune via cymbal oscillators 5 & 6, and system noise. Full details on the modification at http://gumielectronic.net/cr8000/inde..."

Roland CR8000 Voice Mod Demo Part 2 of 2

"This is part two featuring the hi hat, cymbal, clave, conga, and tom mods. Again I forgot to twist a couple of knobs: hi hat and cymbal high pass filters (they're not that great), clave boost (I used the trigger pulsewidth knob instead), high conga tune (behaves the same as the low & mid congas, just pitched higher), and tom noise."

Roland CR8000 With Elby MIDI2SDS(X) Installed

" Testing the Elby MIDI to trigger modules after installing them into the CR8000 case."

Roland CR8000 & Elby MIDI2SDS(X) Test

"This was early in the Roland CR8000 modification process when I was testing the Elby MIDI2SDS(X) MIDI to trigger modules. The CR is being sequenced by a 1 bar MIDI loop in Live. I also tweaked the 'noise' and 'offset' VRs on the voice board a bit. Definitely needs more cowbell."

Roland CR8000 Modification Timelapse

"Several days of work on the CR8000 in a cold shop. My pipes froze that week. But with the price of micro-miniature SPST switches these days, who can afford to heat the house?"