Roland R8M



L    ROLAND R8 Human Rhythm Composer
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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 R8 has 32  note polyphony, 68 instruments, 100 patterns and 10 songs! The R8  later became the R8mkII with more memory and sounds. It is used by Orbital, Underworld, Jimmy Edgar, Autechre,  808 State, Dave Holmes, Fluke, Human League and The Shamen.


 A single-space rack-mount version - the R-8M - was also available. It had no sequencer but it did have the R-8 sounds and the ability to read R-8 expansion sound cards. There were also 8 individual outputs, 12 voices polyphony and 4-part multitimbral MIDI. Later, an mkII model was released with upgraded features and memory (pictured above). 


Polyphony - 32 voices
Sounds - 68 Rom samples
Controls - tune, decay, attack, nuance, output, etc...
Patterns - 100
Songs - 10
Arpeg/Seq - Sequencer
Keyboard - None
Control - MIDI
Date Produced - 1989
R8 mkII - 1992


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