Roland TR-1000 | Rhythm Machine
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- KVRAF
- 20681 posts since 22 Nov, 2000 from Southern California
Good to hear that it's intuitive. I haven't spent much time with recent Roland drum machines but I found the MC-707 to be completely unintuitive, so I was a bit concerned about that. I also found the RYTM to be unintuitive.
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- KVRAF
- 12174 posts since 7 Sep, 2006 from Roseville, CA
Ditto. I bought my MC-707 literally a few days before the TR-1000 teaser countup began and spent about a week with it before deciding that it would either be replaced by whatever the TR-1000 was going to be, or just sold outright. In fairness, I bought the 707 so cheap that my intention all along was that I'd probably end up flipping it for a little profit, which is exactly how it played out. I do have to say, however, that some of the demos I saw from people who know their way around it are able to do some fantastic things with it. I just don't think I would have the patience to take it that far.
Logic Pro | LUNA Pro | OB-X8 | Prophet 6 | OB-6 | Trigon 6 | Rev2 | TEO-5 | Pro 3 | SE-1X | Minitaur | Integra-7 | TR-1000 | Analog RYTM mk2 | Digitakt 2 | TD-3 MO | TD-3 | Maschine+
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- KVRist
- 242 posts since 26 Jul, 2019
Mine came 2 days ago and I'm having a hard time going through all the functionality, still haven't gotten to sampling. The darn thing is just too much fun to noodle around with. I've been watching that 3 hour long deep dive on Roland's yt channel and I'm still not even half way through.
Given how deep the machine goes it has surprisingly little menu diving. For example, I remember TR-8s requiring quite a bit of scrolling when fiddling around with insert effects. Not so on the TR-1000. Sure, there's still 2-3 pages worth of parameters, but the bigger screen and a dedicated FX menu button make it a breeze. Overall I feel like Roland has really put in some thought into the workflow of this thing and I think they've done well.
The analog voices are good and punchy. No surprises there, but given that there are quite a few analog drum machines out there that sound lackluster I thought it's worth pointing out.
And I'm enjoying the analog fx section way more than I anticipated. Esp. the drive. I thought it'll be a just a gimmick, but it's actually useful. Simple, but effective, from subtle thickening to 11, whatever you like. Personally, I like both.
Also, there's an 1176 type compressor option in the master fx section and you can choose a 4000g type compressor as an insert. I don't have an opinion on them yet, but I haven't seen anyone mention them. Seems to be a new thing for Roland, I don't remember TR-8s having either of those and SP-404 MkII doesn't have them either.
Given how deep the machine goes it has surprisingly little menu diving. For example, I remember TR-8s requiring quite a bit of scrolling when fiddling around with insert effects. Not so on the TR-1000. Sure, there's still 2-3 pages worth of parameters, but the bigger screen and a dedicated FX menu button make it a breeze. Overall I feel like Roland has really put in some thought into the workflow of this thing and I think they've done well.
The analog voices are good and punchy. No surprises there, but given that there are quite a few analog drum machines out there that sound lackluster I thought it's worth pointing out.
And I'm enjoying the analog fx section way more than I anticipated. Esp. the drive. I thought it'll be a just a gimmick, but it's actually useful. Simple, but effective, from subtle thickening to 11, whatever you like. Personally, I like both.
Also, there's an 1176 type compressor option in the master fx section and you can choose a 4000g type compressor as an insert. I don't have an opinion on them yet, but I haven't seen anyone mention them. Seems to be a new thing for Roland, I don't remember TR-8s having either of those and SP-404 MkII doesn't have them either.
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- KVRAF
- 2057 posts since 3 May, 2014
Just seen plugmon did the design on the editor
https://plugmon.jp/2025/10/designing-th ... 00-editor/
https://plugmon.jp/2025/10/designing-th ... 00-editor/
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- KVRian
- 529 posts since 22 Sep, 2016
Wasn’t too sure about it until I saw the Skinny Puppy/DOWNLOAD/Tear Garden guy give his seal of approval. Considering the price that their vintage machines are going for, this seems entirely reasonable.
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- KVRAF
- 12174 posts since 7 Sep, 2006 from Roseville, CA
Firmware v1.13 is now live with bug fixes and improvements, notably Sync Delay to address the sync issues with external gear.
https://www.roland.com/global/support/b ... d3a827cf4/
https://www.roland.com/global/support/b ... d3a827cf4/
Logic Pro | LUNA Pro | OB-X8 | Prophet 6 | OB-6 | Trigon 6 | Rev2 | TEO-5 | Pro 3 | SE-1X | Minitaur | Integra-7 | TR-1000 | Analog RYTM mk2 | Digitakt 2 | TD-3 MO | TD-3 | Maschine+
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- KVRer
- 5 posts since 24 Oct, 2025
What do you think, what's the build price of one at these volumes? I bet under $300, maybe less. I mean, I bet the engineering was expensive, so was marketing, but I wonder how much headroom a smaller company would have to make something comparable.