Roland TR-8 gets its first software extension of the TR-707/727 and can now be fooled four classics of electronic dance music emulate real. (Photo: Roland)
In addition to the sounds of the TR-808 and 909 can Roland drum machine TR-8 will now be extended by chargeable update to the sounds of the TR-707 and 727.
Roland builds software support his Aira series continues. So far only the synthesizer system-1 to other software modules can be extended to the Japanese now offer software updates for the drum machine TR-8. For 75 euros of TR-8 owners can purchase the software update 7X7-TR8. With this, the drum machine, in addition to the TR-808 and TR-909 and TR-707 mimic the models and TR-727.
Roland TR -707 creates its sounds using 12-bit samples, which are subsequently alienated with analog envelopes. 
Image: Speculos / Wikipedia <- RSPEAK_START -> The update! comprises a total of 37 sounds that were deceptively modeled after the originals from the 80s. For each of the eleven instruments of TR-8 up to eight different sounds now are available that can be changed at the pitch and decay further. In addition to the 7-sounds, other sounds of the 808 and 909 with a longer decay with are. Also, learn the TR-8 with the update double strokes (Flams) and semi-accented beats and accents. For uploading the software, a USB connection to a Windows or OS X machine is needed.
In contrast to the system-1, SH-101 and SH-2 allows the previously released software modules without the hardware synth as a software plug-in in a DAW operate, the 7X7 -Update can only be used within the TR-8 hardware.
Still can operate the TR-8 via its USB interface as sound card, but only at 96 kHz. Roland explains this with the better sound quality compared with 44.1 / 48 kHz. However, Roland’s engineers are already thinking about an option to output at 44.1 and 48 kHz after because it is less resource-hungry mode would frequently requested by customers. (hag)
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