Free Sample Kits For The Roland TR-8S

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Acid Alex has shared these sample kits for the Roland TR-8S drum machine, including a CR-78 kit, a Microtonic kit, and an x0x kit.

They are available as free downloads:

  • CR-78 Kit (.zip)
  • Microtonic Kit (.zip) – This drum kit was created using Microtonic which was then sampled for the Roland TR-8S.
  • x0x Kit (.zip) – The x0x Kit consists of 909 ACB Kick, Snare and hats, plus some 101 and 303 samples, icluding a chord sampled from an SH-01A.
  • Electribe ER-1 Kit (.zip)

If you give them a try, share your thoughts on them in the comments!

20 thoughts on “Free Sample Kits For The Roland TR-8S”

    1. DON`T DO IT. a new roland 16-pad/workstation sampler is coming. announcement (guess): august 8th or september 9th. according to gearslutz commenter/whistleblower the knoq, “a maschine/mpc/push killer”. the guy saw a promo video with his own eyes, wrote aboout it, broke a nda of his employer.. and lost his job. the man is higly credible. he leaked infos about a mpc that turned out to be true. he even got akai´s release date right! people think roland shelved their new mc/mv successor. no, they only postponed the release.

  2. Is it the price or the features? Just dont see the versatility, or at least not as much versatility as everyone on this site expects from every machine. Seems like people are raving for this thing and it appears to be bare bones in a world of versitile drum machines and samplers.

    1. Usability and workflow?

      This thing is huge and designed to be completely hands-on. Just about anything else in this space is designed around menus vs knobs.

      1. yea… i don’t own one, but i’m planning on getting one and for me, one of the biggest attractions is having a dedicated slider for each one of the sounds. makes it very playable.

  4. Cumbersome import process. SD card , file copying…Ridiculous.. This screams for a tool to just drag and drop a file into some app to import into the TR8S with Sysex for on the fly changes . USB is fast enough. Come on Roland. Sysex might be old but it is super useful. Please consider to bring back Roland Sysex transfer support on the TR8, TR8S and System-1/1m/8 and open up the spec like you did in the long gone past for so many products.

  5. Huh? Sysex is damn slow. Hating transferring sounds to Rytm over sysex. USB is so much faster and better. I’d want it for the SD card, wireless would be better though.

    1. Sample transfer via MIDI is slow, but sysex is extremely useful for:

      * Transferring specific patch parameters to storage or a sequencer (instantaneously)
      * Transferring the entire buffer memory of a device to storage or a sequencer (takes seconds)
      * Backing up the entire volatile and nonvolatile patch, multi, and global memory of a device (may take a minute without samples)
      * Sometimes even controlling parameters in real time from a sequencer that may not have CCs assigned to them.

      These things are super convenient and make memory limitations on the device much less restrictive. It would no longer matter that much, for example, that the original TR8 has paltry memory and can’t remember knob positions. You can have total recall of a device, (kits, knob positions, whatever), saved as part of an external sequence.

  6. Your days are numbered.

    Now do I mean when Roland stops supporting your device or when the 808 and 909 B clones destroy it. 😉

  7. What happened to ACB?
    This seems like a step back.
    Samples of the CR78, they’ve been around for yonks.
    ACB the CR-78 Roland.

  8. This website is down so the downloads are no longer available… anyone got an alternative location to source these kits please?

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