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- Learning to play an instrument
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Parent’s Guide for Kids Learning Piano
Every parent wants the best for their child and it’s challenging to find positive activities that they will enjoy. As a kid, learning piano at a young age was one of the best things that I did in my life.
Which Battery Powered Amp Should I Choose?
Whether it’s for practice, performance or grab and go, battery powered amps can make your life easier and
The Ultimate Guide to the TR-8S Rhythm Performer – Recording TR-8S as Separate Tracks to Your Computer
The Roland TR-8S includes the functionality of Multitrack Transfer over USB. This is very useful if you want to take your grooves and transfer Individual
The Ultimate Guide to the TR-8S Rhythm Performer – Utilizing Analogue Outputs and Trigger Outputs
The Roland TR-8S can send any of its 11 Internal Instrument Tracks to any of its 8 Analogue Outputs. The 6 Assignable Outputs can also
The Ultimate Guide to the TR-8S Rhythm Performer – Making the Most of MIDI
The Roland TR-8S offers extensive MIDI implementation for use with MIDI Devices, and for MIDI over USB, when connecting to your computer or another USB
The Ultimate Guide to the TR-8S Rhythm Performer – Utilize Mono and Stereo Input with EXT IN
The Roland TR-8S External Inputs allow you to plug in any Audio Source, or sources, like Synths or other Drum Machines, and process the Input
The Ultimate Guide to the TR-8S Rhythm Performer – Applying Sidechain FX to Another Instrument Using External In
The Roland TR-8S External Inputs allow you to plug in any Audio Source, like a Synth or another Drum Machine, and process the Input Signal
The Ultimate Guide to the TR-8S Rhythm Performer – Assigning Sounds to Separate Outputs
The Roland TR-8S has a total of eight Audio Outputs on the rear panel, configured as Stereo Mix Outs Left and Right, and Assignable Outs
The Ultimate Guide to the TR-8S Rhythm Performer – Colour Code Your Instruments
The 11 Faders, and first 11 Pads on the Roland TR-8S light up in colour when the Instrument is turned on. This can be great
The Ultimate Guide to the TR-8S Rhythm Performer – Create Balance in your Drum Mix with Gain and Panning
The Roland TR-8S has 11 Tracks for assigning Instruments, and the ability to record complex and dynamic drum parts on every Track. Adjusting Gain and
The Ultimate Guide to the TR-8S Rhythm Performer – Advanced Editing of Individual Instruments
The Roland TR-8S offers many options for customising individual Instruments within your Kits. All of the Instrument Edit Parameters can, of course, be stored along
The Ultimate Guide to the TR-8S Rhythm Performer – Load Your Own Samples
Another powerful feature of the Roland TR-8S is the ability to load your own samples, and incorporate them into your Kits. Of course this completely
The Ultimate Guide to the TR-8S Rhythm Performer – Create Flams and Adjust Flam Spacing
Flams are created on the TR-8S in manner very similar to Sub Steps. For a refresher on Creating Sub Steps, take a look at the
The Ultimate Guide to the TR-8S Rhythm Performer – Creating Sub Steps
Sub Steps are a great way to add stutter and fast roll effects to your Patterns in the TR-8S. To create Sub Steps we first
The Ultimate Guide to the TR-8S Rhythm Performer – Create Movement with the LFO
The LFO is an often overlooked feature of the Roland TR-8S that has a great deal of power and flexibility to modify the sound of
The Ultimate Guide to the TR-8S Rhythm Performer – Automate FX with Motion
Another of the really powerful features of the Roland TR-8S is the ability to assign different Effects to any of the Control Knobs on the
The Ultimate Guide to the TR-8S Rhythm Performer – Assign and Automate the Control Knobs
One of the really powerful performance features of the Roland TR-8S is the ability to assign different parameters to any of the Control Knobs on
The Ultimate Guide to the TR-8S Rhythm Performer – Automate Tune and Decay with Motion
The Tuning and Decay Knobs have been with us since the legendary Roland TR-808. The Tune and Decay Knobs on the TR-8S have taken things
The Ultimate Guide to the TR-8S Rhythm Performer – Effective Use of Master FX and INST FX
The TR-8S gives you lots of options for assigning effects to the Kit as a whole, as well as to individual Instruments, and adjusting effects
The Ultimate Guide to the TR-8S Rhythm Performer – Creating Rhythmic Variation with Delay
Delay is the effect commonly used in Audio Production that takes a sound and repeats it after a specified amount of time. Delay times can
