New Roland Hardware to Compete with Korg's Volcas

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THese look kind of interesting, albeit a bit too simple -

https://www.engadget.com/rolands-aira-c ... 20662.html

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$199! Should give the promised Behringer little beat boxes a bit of competition.

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I'd trust Roland to make a decent drum machine, so the T8 looks fairly interesting. The others not so much. Roland seem to have been releasing quite a few small units recently, and competing on price (which is not normally a Roland thing). I might have to keep an eye on them a bit more.

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I'd like to play with that vocal unit, looks like a fun idea generator.

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Just what the world needs. More plastic crap. At least the Behringer line of mini synths each have an analog filter.

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Pity so many analogue filters are shite. Seriously, what's so good about any of the three filters in an ARP Odyssey? And don't get me started on f**king ladder filters.
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Korg Odyssey, bx-oberhausen, Proxima, PolyMax, GR8, JP6K, Union, Atomika,
Invader 2, Flow Motion, Olga, TRK 01, Thorn, Spire, VG Iron

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I'm pretty surprised the T-8 and E-4 haven't garnered more interest here. The T-8 has a lot of hands-on control and a really nice selection of sounds, while the E-4 offers vocoding and looping that are a bit of a pain to do with plugins.

The lack of interest in the J-6 I can understand. I don't see the point of digital hardware with so few few controls, better off using plugins or spending a little extra on the JU-06 in that case.

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Some sounds of the E-4. I can definitely hear a lot of techno and DnB potential.

Check around the 5 min mark

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