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    I'm currently waiting for one of these to be delivered and was hoping it would doll up my transition to more beat driven stuff. The question that's bothered me, is why would i need anything other Ableton and plug-ins? I wanna do stuff live, so hopefully this could be part of a transition. I also have a few decent synths to try and set up too.

    Anyone used the Roland TR-8S?

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    • These Roland machines are instantly enjoyable, great sound engine too, you'll be having fun right out the box.spl33nidoru
    • ^ yes these are great for instant fun, hands-on for everything you need to control your drums in a live performance.microkorg
    • Depends on your goal. If you are mostly doing tweaking playing live rather than beat programming then a controller for ableton might suit enough (Faderfox EC4)microkorg
    • << and you know this isn't small, right.microkorg
    • Had one of these. Great fun and would be a workhorse for live sets. I personally decided Ableton can do everything I need but everyone’s different.mort_
    • Cheers guys. I wanna do more collaborative stuff and get my head around hardware. I feel this with my Novation K station and Neutron will be a good startIanbolton
    • Totally get ya Mort. Maybe i'm lacking in inspiration and chucking money at a problem sometimes helps!Ianbolton
    • Jamming on hardware opens up new worlds for sure!mort_
    • These are dope! You can even drop your own samples into this, right?futurefood
    • ^ You need a SD card and it’s a bit clunky but yeah you canmort_
    • You can do everything in Ableton. But the fun spontaneous stuff, outboard hardware is always more funautoflavour
    • It’s just a different way of doing things. Limitations can be very liberating but will take a while to learn how to best approachautoflavour
    • < what autoflavour said.jagara
    • Tweaking actual buttons is more fun.jagara
    • Cheers guys. We all love tweeking nobs round here, yeah?!Ianbolton
    • Good to record hardware jams (preferably multi-track) so you can later make bits of the recordings into full tunes.mort_
    • ^ for the reason auto mentioned - capture the spontaneous stuff and 'lucky accidents'.mort_
    • multitrack recording is definitely key hereautoflavour
    • Cheers. I have an 4/8 track mixer I can run stuff through for recording, but I have no idea how to set all that up to work smoothly.Ianbolton
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