Introducing the Roland CR-8000
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- The first in our series on the Roland CompuRhythm CR-8000, the vintage analog drum machine first released in 1981. Billed by some as a poor man’s 808, the CR-8000 may represent one of the last undiscovered jewels in Roland's drum machine pantheon.
Nice Video! Thats my personally modded CR-8000 you have shown in the video. It is a beast once modded - the sounds you can get out of it are fantastic.
Paul(?) very cool! Which of the modified CR-8000s is yours? Is it used in any of the videos featured on your channel, which by the way are great. If there are could I link to them in my video description? I really like the videos comparing the VCS-3 to the Syntrx.
@@telefunkian Have emailed you. My response with video links is not showing up in the normal reply. Cheers.
@@Allinaire Thanks for the 'heads up'. I don't check that email very often but I will look for your message. Cheers!
Black or white?
I've got a CR-8000 as well. Will follow your video series with great interest. Thank you for putting those up 👍
Thanks for watching!
I looked over your Repair playlist on your channel and saw that you have a couple of Sequential T8 videos, do you have a T8? They are wonderful machines. I have a track featuring a T8, played by my buddy Brooks Mosher, in one of my Pro-One videos, I believe it is the "Introducing" video.
@@telefunkian Yes I have one. It is not working and in pretty bad state. It needs a complete restoration...
edit: will watch your Pro-One video introduction
I love these series. I've got a broken polysix sitting in the cupboard. Makes me want to have a go at it, but i just don't have the room ☹️
Thanks for watching and for the encouraging feedback. Beware, synths take up 5 times the room when they are disassembled! (or ten times if you ask my wife) The good news is that you have a poly six, nice machine and well worth fixing IMHO.
@@telefunkian I had it from new in the 80s. I opened it up a few years ago but it was like you said - and I was too concerned about loosing bits. I'll probably end up getting a Kiwi set at some point. Just need to make room...
Legendary !
13:43 , 15:42 , 18:38 Sound comparison CR8000 vs. CR78 vs. TR808.
That was a German/EU Schuko (Schutzkontakt) plug not a UK plug.
Also i'd really strongly encourage you to reconsider retrobrighting, peroxides break polymer links and embrittle plastics.
Thanks for pointing that out in time for me to correct it in the power supply video I am preparing! WRT retrobright, you are of course correct, I went for a mixed approach using diluted peroxide and then mechanical abrasion (Sanding to 2000 grit), which you can only do if the case has a flat finish. The case was and still is brittle, I had to glue several broken attachment points and fix a crack but I think the result is substantially improved, you can judge in future videos.
@@telefunkian I look forward to it!
Very nice work!
I'm really looking forward to the next CR8000 videos, especially regarding calibration! although I own almost all of the old Roland drum machines (except TR-700) I find the CR8000 the most interesting of them all and I have 3 of these and now I want to mod one of them with voice swapping, all voice mods and UniPulse midi...
Thanks for watching and for the encouraging feedback!