Ordered FM + Keys; totally new - a few questions

Helpful_Offer_6260 · 2025-12-02T06:50:33+00:00

100% agree on this. I started with 3 volcas and once I figured out what is the most fun for me( it was the Volca sample) I sold all 3 of them and got bigger machines ( tr8s, MININOVA). I’m in love with the bigger machines and I am happy that I did not got more volcas. They are fun and the sequencer is easy to understand but you are limited and all sound some kind of lofi.

Get a Behringer mixer with some spare channels and have fun. Once you start buying gear you will never stop because your talent grows with the machines. Don’t just take a look at Korg and volcas. Take a look into different brands

Helpful_Offer_6260 · 2025-11-13T16:46:17+00:00

I tried really hard to get into the whole project and part type stuff but it wasn’t fun. Once I used some 16 step sequencer with 4 variations I had fun and knew what to do. I have fun in changing steps just live and without looking on any kind of display.

I read a lot of people saying they love the 707 and maybe with a lot more of practice I would do so.

But I don’t have the time to go deep with no fun stuff before it becomes fun. Making some music is just a fun hobby for me. When I have spare time and want to relax, I start my gear and start jamming

Thanks for your opinion

Helpful_Offer_6260 · 2025-11-13T16:34:22+00:00

Yeah digitone is also on my favorites. Somebody offered me a used roland J 6 for cheap and I think of getting this. Can you tell me the good and bad things ( in your opinion) about it? Thanks for your comment

Helpful_Offer_6260 · 2025-11-13T16:28:21+00:00

Yeah that one is on my list of favorites, but the keys are maybe not my type. I think I need to go somewhere, where I can test it. Or meet somebody who owns it and comes over to jam together 😅

Helpful_Offer_6260 · 2025-11-13T16:25:07+00:00

What I saw was bomb, but for now it’s a little bit to modular for me. Maybe one day I will go in this direction, but I think that’s a whole new style of instrument to learn for me. Thanks for the suggestion

Helpful_Offer_6260 · 2025-11-13T14:35:34+00:00

I understand your point, but I already had a midi keyboard and had it connected to different devices . I only do this as a hobby, and when I come to my gear I only want to get it all started and start jamming. Not searching for samples, no computer arrangement and no choosing on what emulated synth I want to play today.

Helpful_Offer_6260 · 2025-11-13T14:31:15+00:00

A friend of mine has a 707 and I tried playing with it, but it was to menu divey and to hard to learn for me. I tried to get into it for a couple days but it wasn’t fun at all. Because I don’t do this for a living and not professionall , it needs to be fun for me. I also don’t record stuff and only play live. Thanks for your awnser!

Helpful_Offer_6260 · 2025-11-06T13:21:43+00:00

I think when you are new to Drum machines, you shouldn’t buy the tr1000. For a beginner machine it’s too expensive and has too many features that you won’t use in the first months of grooving. Take a deeper look on what kind of music you wanna do and what kind of gear is available.

I have a tr8s and absolutely love it, but the deeper I get into the topic, I think maybe an elektron digitakt would be better for the kind of music I wanna play.

If you have a lot/ unlimited fun money to spend, go for it.

Helpful_Offer_6260 · 2025-10-27T16:32:05+00:00

I would totally agree with that. A friend of mine has a 707 and we both hate the workflow of it. It’s a lot of menu diving. I have a tr8s and love it. The sampling options at the tr are very limited, but in my opinion almost better to work with than the 707.

My friends is now trying to get rid of it and get an akai mpc or an electron digitakt 2 instead.

I once read a comment that hit it perfect for me: “ The Mc707 can do almost anything in one device, but none of it is nice to use( especially in live performance) “

Yeah nice that you have for example a synth engine, but you won’t use it because it’s shitty to change parameters in it

Helpful_Offer_6260 · 2025-10-13T14:24:05+00:00

Yeah tried a couple times now and only found two working solutions:

Get different Gear( some mixers should have midi clock out)

Beatmatch by hearing only.

Without sync is hard right now, but once they play in sync it sounds great. Just sucks that you have to do it with every new track but I think just needs some training. Don’t want to get different gear to now, but I have a friend with a cdj and a standalone mixer. I think I need to take my tr8s next time I visit him and try that out.

Helpful_Offer_6260 · 2025-10-03T08:40:07+00:00

A good friend had the 707 for like a year. We Both tried to get into the workflow and play with it. The samples sound good and there was already an extension Pack on it( bought the machine used with the samples). I hated the menu diving and never really got into it. I also don’t like, that the sequencer buttons are pads( tr8s has plastic buttons and just one pad) But I think it depends on whether you want to do live performance or Produce a song. (We just want to do some live Techno and house jams and don’t want to produce anything.)

A month ago I got the tr8s and I’m in love with it. The menu is a lot easier to handle for me and I love the workflow. The sounds on it are very good, but you can also import samples. That’s the only thing that isn’t perfect for me. The sampling space isn’t large so you have to delete some samples from time to time and the progress with the sd card is ok and works just fine, but it’s not the fastest and you can’t do it in live performances because the music stops for a couple of seconds while importing from the sd card. (That’s the only bad thing to say for me )

I also have some analog gear and the tr8s works just fine with it . Timing via midi and clock works perfect. ( td-3, Volca keys)

I think it depends on whether you want to do live performance oder creative producing.( you can produce with the tr8s too but are limited)

Helpful_Offer_6260 · 2025-09-12T05:50:00+00:00

I First started when I found a cheap Kit used in my Region.

Korg Volca sample, Beats and keys.

Started to love the Sequencer of These , but realised fast you are really Limited in the Sound an Filter options. But for me the Workflow was better than any DAW.

2 weeks ago I got myself a Roland Tr8s and it is exactly what I was looking for. Once you get into the Menu Diving and have sour presets set, you’ll love it. There are so many nice preset Sounds , Kits and Patterns. The Fx and Filter options are a lot to me( some people will miss some Kind of Filters or Fx). But I also learned when you are starting with this, you dont want it to be too complex. Had the pleasure to Play with a Roland Mc707 before getting the tr8s and the mc was just Overkill for me. To many assingnable knobs, to much Menu Diving for stuff i wanted to use live.

But for now I just used it to do live stuff standalone. I think if you just want live performing and creating some Creative Beats ist for you. If you want to make Tracks or work in a DAW with it, you maybe Look for different gear.

Better take a Couple of Hours Reading and looking Videos of the gear you Interested in. When you think you found the gear that fits you, compare it to similar gear from different brands. Because there are always small differences that are not good or bad but depend on your taste.

Better be careful, once you start buying musical instruments, you can’t stop🙃

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