Syncing 2 vintage Roland drummachines, CR-78 and CR-8000

Published on May 29, 2019 obscure wave music

"Syncing 2 vintage Roland drum machines.

Here's a little demo -really nothing fancy - featuring the Roland CR-8000 and the CR-78 synced together and plugged into, but not recorded on, a vintage Tascam 244. The echo is the now-almost-vintage Boss RE-20.
Both these drummachines are long-time favorites of mine, along with the TR-606.

The point here is this: though both drum machines respond to Roland sync, the CR-8000 uses 24 ppqn and the CR-78 uses 12 ppqn. Wich means that if you just plug sync out from the CR-8000 into the CR-78, the latter one will play at double the tempo, which can be intresting, but most of the time is not.

So, I worked around that problem by using a Doepfer MSY-1 to sync the CR-78 from a midi clock coming from a DSI mono evolver keyboard ( which plays the “ drony “ sequence in the background from it's internal sequencer ). The MSY-1, although a relatively old device, can be set to different clock divisions from an incoming midi clock. Using the same midi clock source, the CR-8000 is synced by the sync24 converter inside the Novation Drumstation ( both the MSY-1 and the Drumstation are out of view ).

Using this principle, I'll try to make another demo with an 808 and 606 added to the setup.

Recorded straight from the 244's line out into a Roland R-05. I chose not to record on the 244, because it is still in the process of being refurbished and the tape mechanism is not up to the job yet.

By the way: my 244 misses the button cap of the cassette eject switch. Would anyone know where I can find a replacement ? All the transport caps/buttons on the 244 are one “ pad of caps/buttons “, and the one for eject here has broken of and vanished... Any help or suggestion would be appreciated. Thanks for watching !"

Minilogue XD COMPLEX SEQUENCES MEGA TUTORIAL

Published on May 30, 2019 BoBeats

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QUASIMIDI POLYMORPH Synthesizer Sequencer (1999) factory demo sequences and track

Published on May 29, 2019 RetroSound

"(c) 2019 by RetroSound

I had the Quasimidi Polymorph in the late 90s.
The PM is an four part virtual-analog synthesizer, a step sequencer and fx.

va osc: 3 per voice with 128 waves (sine, saw, square, pwm, tri, etc.) and 30 sampled waves
filter : high pass and low pass
sequencer: 4 lines
MIDI
Audio In

first part: some factory sequences
second part: demo song from Klaus Schulze"

Digitakt LFO is broken by design (with proof / measurements) ?

Published on May 30, 2019 zbr_audio

Thoughts?

"The range of the LFO on the digitakt is roughly five times more than reasonable - to the extent it saturates the pitch modulation input. I hope this gets fixed.
Bug been there since I got the machine on 1.05, still here on 1.11

Measurements done using CueMixFX FFT visualiser"

Audiothingies P6

Published on May 30, 2019 Joakim Floke

"A demo of the now discontinued Audiothingies P6. A cheap DIY VA-synth with a load of features, great sound and a small form factor. I use it a lot. It has some rolandish quality to its sound, at least I think so. The build took only 2 evenings."

sounds of the TR-606

Published on May 30, 2019 ljs8888

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