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Roland R8 Human Rhythm Composer Drum Machine Used

  • Model: rolaR8
  • Shipping Weight: 10lbs
  • Manufactured by: Roland

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Roland R8 Drum Machine

This is good working condition with some comestic issuses.

The Roland R8 was one of the very best drum machines ever. It has excellent sounds which can be expanded by adding additional sound cards (808 and 909 cards). Great rock, electronic, ethnic and industrial style drumkits! Most of the sounds are editable - tune, decay, attack, nuance, output, etc...

But its coolest tricks are the Feel Patches which give your program a human-like groove! The sounds are ROM based samples, the R-8 has 32 note polyphony, 68 instruments, 100 patterns and 10 songs! The R-8 later became the R-8mkII with more memory and sounds. It is used by Orbital, Underworld, Jimmy Edgar, Autechre, 808 State, Dave Holmes, Fluke, Human League and The Shamen.

 

Specifications

  • Polyphony - 32 voices
  • Multitimbral - 4 parts over MIDI
  • Sounds - 68 Rom samples (16bit samples @ 44.1 sample rate)
  • Pads - Velocity and Pressure Sensitive
  • Controls - tune, decay, attack, nuance, output, etc...
  • Patterns - 100
  • Songs - 10
  • Arpeg/Seq - Sequencer
  • Keyboard - None
  • Control - MIDI
  • Date Produced - 1989
    R-8 mkII - 1992

 


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