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- #14,875 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments)
- #10 in Drum Machines
Create infectious tracks in seconds flat with the T-8 Beat Machine, a miniature rhythm factory loaded with legendary Roland TR drums plus bass from the inimitable TB-303. Craft on-the-fly acid jams or trap bangers with the intuitive 16-step sequencer, shape sounds with onboard controls, and flip and dice beats with hands-on tools that stimulate ideas and put the fun back into your flow.
Customer
Reviewed in Canada on July 15, 2024
This product is amazing. Very easy to use. Lots of training videos available. Buttons are are a bit small for me. Would recommend.
Han Moz
Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2024
Right now I'm in the middle of traveling out of my country for a few months, so I needed something portable that I would still enjoy back home.Been using it on planes, trains, outside, inside.Been a while since I had so much fun with a synth.+ Small, portable and easy, just charge it, and it will last you for a decent amount of time, get a battery bank, and you are set for some LONG rides.+ The drums are super fun to mess with, and they sound pretty good!+ The bass synth is not deep, but it's more flexible than I expected, and with the tuning knob it can even take a lead sound!+ The sequencer goes quite deep, and even has side chaining built in! (For drum machine beginners like me, it means you can make drums quiet down when a specific drum plays (for example, quiet everything whenever the kick hits)+ This synth alone can sound like a whole beat, sometimes I found myself forgetting I have other synthes around since the drums + bass have a pretty full sound.And now for the neatpicks- honestly a part of me wishes they added 2 more drums to this machine, and turn the bass into its own device, like the s-1If they replaced it with a bell+cowbell section, and maybe a clap or something, I feel like it'd be a more full drum machine (but a less full all rounder).- the device is deceptively hard to learn fully if you have no experiance with drum machines. The manual has almost 40 pages.- I buttons are a little too squishy for the size, i always end up with unregistered presses when I try to quickly punch in drums into the sequencer mid beat, just too small to be both soft AND comfortable.----Overall, for the price it's a no brainier, I recommend it to anyone who needs a budget drum machine, but might need portability.You'll easily make your first beat in minutes, and then slowly uncover how to utilize it well.I managed to teach a kid almost 4 years old to use it on a surface level!Her beate weren't great tho.
Cake Fighter
Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2024
This is an example of a success as far as I'm concerned. For 200 dollars I can plug this right into a port on my R20 and add drums and synth base effortlessly to any song. No, it doesn't have a full 808 or 909 or any full X0X kit. It has a piecemeal combination of them. So you won't be using it to exactly duplicate some classic. But if you make your own new song, and want that feel, it's there. The 303 section is surprisingly good and complete. The stock patterns are surprisingly good also. I found 3-1 and two hours disappeared with me modifying it, then turning it into a monstrosity. I like a device that can do that. Make time disappear because it's fun to use. I love that I can recharge it with usb. I've had it die on me once, but i had been using it nonstop noon to midnight. Twelve hours of stopping and starting it, putting it down to edit tracks, picking it back up. That's pretty impressive. I'm hoping they are very smart and release an Aira T-7 that just has the 707 samples on it. I'd love that. It's the only thing I'm missing in my music. I couldn't justify spending double on the TR-6S. But if you want all the classic Roland drum machines, and aren't content with an amalgam of all of them, that's your best choice. If you just want to add some 80's to your songs, this is perfect. And again, it has a great 303 if you love those sounds. Most people do and don't know it. It's weird when a music product is good enough to use for production, but also inexpensive and convenient. Great work Roland. I'll probably end up replacing it at some point for a newer better one like I used to do decades ago with their drum machines, and I'll put this one on ebay for some promising new musician. If you are a youtuber looking to add a little DnB to your videos, this is probably the least expensive route that will sound this good, and be this easy to learn.
G
Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2024
I first used this with a friend who is very well versed in music and synths, and happened to have one of these. I bought this via friends recommendation after having a jam session for and getting lost in the music with him for like 2 hours.This thing is loaded with features, and has lots of great tutorial videos online of how to use utilize all of them. Needless to say, you can produce some pretty awesome stuff with this. Not to mention the kids love playing with this, and it keeps them off the TV or some other screen.Lots of fun and features. Highly recommend.
Kurmit
Reviewed in Canada on October 7, 2024
Basically this thing rocks one thing I don't particularly like is that almost every preset is acid, but you could just manually turn down the resonance and get some different sounds out of it pretty easily
Dan
Reviewed in Canada on October 28, 2024
Bought it for the 303 bass and sounds so good. Can’t tweak the reverb and delay as much like the s1, wish you could transpose the keyboard before putting in the notes and would be nice to save the patch but overall great. Drums are great too
ADRIAN SANCHEZ CALDERON
Reviewed in Mexico on May 28, 2023
Lo uso como caja de ritmos (groove box) en composiciones y arreglos, un gran acompañamiento rítmico con sonidos modernos, lo acoplo al procesador de efectos logrando locuras espectaculares de electro jazz, electro blues y cualquier cosa que se me ocurra... explotando la imaginación y la creatividad musical.
Mike Cantelon
Reviewed in Canada on May 18, 2023
It's a limited, but good unit. The UI isn't bad for basic things. Menu diving gets a bit cryptic for some functions. The 303 is good. Effects are decent. Probability function was a cool addition. Machine contents can reportedly be accesses, in a text file format, via USB. Removable batteries would be better than a built-in, given that built-in batteries degrade over time, but can still be run from a power bank. Multiple drum kits would have been cool, but still fair given the price point.
Fito
Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2022
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