Roland finally releasing evolution to TR-808

Brace yourselves. 30 years in the making. Called the Roland AIRA

Evolution to 303 next? Come on roland!!!

Guess that's what they were showing when they visited A Guy Called Gerald, Hardfloor, etc, back in August?

It's definitely not 30 years in the making.

Yeah. i got excited

The vid showed flashes of the 101/303/808/909. Keen for 2014 versions

Heres some pics

Bottom one is maybe a vocoder by the looks of things. AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Evolution to the VT1. A 'voice transformer' http://www.vintagesynth.com/roland/vt1.php

Wow, that's fantastically ugly. Looks like the street racing version of an Electribe.

I think it looks much nicer than the electribes. Reminds me of tron, even though i haven't seen the movie.

3 more 'AIRA' products coming soon http://www.roland.com/aira/

Looks liek each instrument has its own decay and there's reverb as well.

My bad, reverse not reverb.

  On 1/15/2014 at 10:13 AM, psn said:

Wow, that's fantastically ugly. Looks like the street racing version of an Electribe.

The original MPC 1000 colour scheme is disgusting (I should know, I have one). It doesn't matter how bad they look, it's what's inside 'em that counts.

Design wise, it screams late 90s shitty trance bullshit virtual analog sample bank stupid quasi futuristic crap. It's the aesthetic of the Matrix and Tron rolled into one. Wow, amazing.

Hopefully it sounds the complete opposite of all that.

If this is yet another rubbish digital copy of an old analogue classic I will be sad.

  On 1/15/2014 at 10:43 AM, psn said:

Hopefully it sounds the complete opposite of all that.

http://youtu.be/_WcGrSGl5Zk

Looks like it could be the new best thing... I wana get it but I'm scared of the possible price...

It better not require a computer to load samples or modify soundbanks or whatever the fuck. Also, to make it new, it better sound like shit, and be like 50 kg.

  On 1/15/2014 at 10:32 AM, Chris Toffer said:

My bad, reverse not reverb.

Seems like a reverse next to the step select which would indicate an internal/daw sequencer at least :)

50% aroused

oh no! i'm going to have to get another sweater.

*chucks Roland 808 sweater in the bin*

  On 1/15/2014 at 2:09 PM, MadameChaos said:

oh no! i'm going to have to get another sweater.

 

*chucks Roland 808 sweater in the bin*

It was your sweater that finally pushed Roland over the edge.

  On 1/15/2014 at 2:19 PM, jasondonervan said:

 

  On 1/15/2014 at 2:09 PM, MadameChaos said:

oh no! i'm going to have to get another sweater.

 

*chucks Roland 808 sweater in the bin*

 

It was your sweater that finally pushed Roland over the edge.

oh good. maybe i should get an Aphex sweater.

  On 1/15/2014 at 2:48 PM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

thanks, korg ;)

lol this

realistically the say what korg were at and shat themselves.

No way this is analog.

booooooring

It will dissapoint they always do. It won't be analogue.