Category: Roland
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Roland J-6 Review
The Roland J-6 Chord Synth is part of the AIRA Compact series, a line of portable and powerful instruments designed to bring classic Roland sounds to the modern musician. You can check out our reviews of other synths in the series like the Roland Aira T-8 Review. Quality Sound The J-6 delivers rich, warm sounds…
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Roland S-1 MIDI Control
The Roland S-1 is a tiny 4 note poly synthesizer, that has a great deal of functionality packed into it. Straight away the demos on the device sound impressive and hint at what is to come. Trying to unlock that power and actually use the thing to create new sounds I like, I found to…
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Roland T-8 with a MIDI Controller
The MIDI implementation chart on the Roland Aira T-8 is quite limited, but nothing ventured, nothing gained. So I setup the T-8 with an Arturia Minilab 3 MIDI controller to see what works and what doesn’t and finish with a jam. The MIDI implementation of the device is shown at the back of the T-8…
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Roland Aira Compact Cheat Sheets
The Roland Airas Compact series pack tons of functionality into tiny boxes. This usually means that many of the advanced functions are buried in the menus. Compounding this with the incredibly cryptic and unnecessarily retro 4 digit LED display can then make desiphering these functions difficult. Therefore several users have put together Cheat Sheets, that…
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Roland Aira T-8 Solo Jam
DAWless jam with the Roland T8. So much fun having the 303 bass and a drum machine squeezed into this tiny portable box. There are a few shortcuts to jump to some menus like sidechain, but its still a bit fiddly to perform on!
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Dawless Jam #3
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I am starting a new weekly improvised dawless jam series on the Dawless youtube channel. This one is featuring a little bit of everything. I had sounds coming from the Microfreak, Circuit Tracks, Drumbrite, Typhon, Crave and T8. Sequencing is by the Keystep and some extra reverb and delay as always from the tc electronic…
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Separate Roland Aira T-8 Bass and Drums Channels
Here is a quick tip I picked up for recording the Roland Aira T-8. You can separate out the Bass and Drums in the mix by hardpanning them left and right. This allows you to easily control the volume of the bass and drumkit instruments separately on your mixer, or record them independently. Stereo Splitter…
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Roland Aira T-8 Review
Roland has so far launched 4 synths in its Aira compact series: the S-1 Tweak Synth, T-8 Beat Machine, the J-6 Chord Synth and the E-4 Voice Tweaker. You can find out about he range here on Roland’s website. They have been designed in a compact form factor and to all play nicely together. Today…
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Roland MC-101 Groovebox Preset Machine
The Roland MC-101 is a compact and portable groovebox that offers a lot of functionality and versatility for its size and price. It is essentially a mini version of the MC-707, with four tracks, 16 pads, four faders, four knobs, and a variety of sounds and effects. The MC-101 is powered by Roland’s Zen-Core engine,…