Re: What new booty have you acquired?
crc wrote:Honey Peters wrote:roland soundcanvas sc-50. When I get home i'll compare its 808 kit to the r8. Sounds like it has some usable piano tones too.
let me know is it any good. there is one for sale here, and i'd surely like a cheap good sounding "808 substitute in a box"
I am impressed. The Kick is actually bigger on the SC. I always thought the r8's was a bit weak on the low end.
Also, the SC lets you control a full ADSR volume envelope, cutoff, res, chorus and reverb for each one of the 16 tracks. If you want to detune drum parts individually you have to put an 808 kit on multiple tracks (which you can set to the same or different midi channels). The worst part about the SC-50 is that it only has stereo RCA outputs (you can control the pan on each track). The R8 lets you assign each drum part to individual outputs or panned left/right.The SC also has other very usable generic tones. I may keep it for piano sounds. Or sell it and buy a nice tube preamp to warm up some 808 samples coming out of my sampler.
why not get a real tr808 if that is so important about the low end and such? How longer you postpone, how more expensive it will be later 
I was doing all kinds of tricks and lots of clones.....But it will never be real satifying untill you have one. Although I found that the DStation is a good alternative, although I know alot of ppl dont like it either, but I am okay with it. Just takes some good initial multi-IO eq setup en limiting setup and gating etc, then your set.
I must say that the lowend on the R8 is rather ok imo, but i dont use any 808 kits on it, only the pop/rock kits.
I only hate that freaking 2 line LCD menu editing, it drives me crazy, I think i am gonna sell mine...despite all good sounds. I aint gonna torture myself with spartan stuff from the 90s anymore....:P
That all said, SC series are really cheap these days and offers a good bang for the buck in that way, but RCA connections is just too weak to me. You defintly need a (good) preamp for it then, and after that it aint as cheap anymore 
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