Manual Roland TR-8S - RHYTHM PERFORMER (page 3 of 24) (English)

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USING THE UNIT SAFELY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

IMPORTANT NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Panel Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Top Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Rear Panel (Connecting Your Equipment) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Turning the TR-8S On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Turning Off the Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Formatting an SD Card (SD CARD FORMAT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Overview of the TR-8S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

What Is a “PATTERN”? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

What Is a “KIT”? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Playing Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Playing Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Selecting a Pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Changing the Length of the Variation

(Setting the Variation’s Last Step)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Changing the Length of a Specific Track

(Setting the Track’s Last Step) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Generating a Random Pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Copying a Pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Deleting a Pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Copying a Variation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Selecting a Fill-In Variation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Inserting a Fill-In (Manual Trigger) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Inserting a Fill-In at Regular Intervals (Auto Fill In) . . 10

Adjusting the Reverb or Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Master Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

TR-REC (Step Recording) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Inputting Sub Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Specifying a Flam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Inputting Weak Beats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Inputting Alternate Sounds (ALT INST) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Specifying Accents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Deleting a Recorded Step from the Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Recording/Playing MOTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

INST-REC (Realtime Recording) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Playing Sub Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Specifying a Flam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Playing Weak Beats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Playing Alternate Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Deleting a Recorded Step from the Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Recording/Playing MOTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Using the Inst Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Using the Inst Pad to Play Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Recording While You Use the Inst Pad to Play

Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

INST-PLAY (Performing) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Playing Sub Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Performing a Flam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Performing Weak Beats (WEAK BEATS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Performing Alternate Sounds (ALT INST) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Performing a Roll (ROLL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Editing the Pattern Settings (Pattern Setting) . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Editing a Kit or Instrument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Selecting Kits (KIT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Editing a Kit’s Settings (KIT Edit) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Detailed Reverb Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Detailed Delay Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Master Effect (MASTER FX) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Assigning Parameters to the [CTRL] Knobs (CTRL SELECT) 15

Assigning a Different Function for Each Instrument to the

[CTRL] Knob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Playing Multiple Instruments Layered

(GROUPING for Layer) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Grouping Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Selecting an Instrument’s Tone (INST) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Editing an Instrument’s Sound (INST Edit) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Changing an Instrument’s Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Changing an Instrument’s Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Copying a Kit (KIT COPY) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Using the LFO to Modify a Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Assigning an Imported User Sample to an Instrument . . . 17

Importing a User Sample (SAMPLE Import) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Selecting a User Sample (SAMPLE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Editing a User Sample’s Settings (SAMPLE Edit) . . . . . . . . . . 17

Various Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Jumping to the Beginning of a Parameter Group. . . . . . . . . 18

Entering a Kit Name or Other Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Saving the Pattern, Kit, or System Settings (WRITE) . . . . . . . 18

Copying a Pattern or Kit (COPY) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Erasing a Pattern (CLEAR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Erasing Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Playing Weak Beats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Specifying the Flam Spacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Muting a Track (MUTE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Listening to Only the Selected Instrument (SOLO) . . 20

Adjusting the Tempo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Tap Tempo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Marking the Tempo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Finely Adjusting the Timing of Notes (Nudge Function) . . 20

Synchronizing/Recording with Other Devices . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Synchronizing with a TB-3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Using the TR-8S as a MIDI Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Using the ASSIGNABLE OUT/TRIGGER OUT jacks as

Trigger Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Assigning an Instrument to the ASSIGNABLE OUT/

TRIGGER OUT jacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Inputting an External Audio Source (EXT IN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Connecting a Computer via USB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Various Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Returning to the Factory Settings (FACTORY RESET) . . . . . . 22

Backing Up Data to SD Card (BACKUP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Restoring Data That Was Backed Up to SD Card (RESTORE) 23

Convenient Functions (UTILITY) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Main Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

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