I was watching an interview recently with Nile Rogers and he brought up a point that the TR-808 was originally designed as a machine to help musicians practice along to a percussion track easily - that fact actually makes sense in the context that Roland set out to make the drum machine fully programmable and the first of its kind.
I dont even know how I came across your channel in the first place but man I really love to watch your videos. Not only do they match my interests very well and steady. The length of your "history of.." videos is perfect, not too long and comprehensive but done with solid amount of research that is just on-point. Last not least your narration is great, I really like your voice and how you use it 🙂
Oh and I think the microKORG could be a nice topic. I owned one years ago but wasnt to happy with that somehow weird patch matrix navigation. but the sound is crazy and theres a reason why this little synth is used and loved so widely until today
I personally never owned a TR-808, however I did own a R8. Once i learned of the availability of sound cards, the sound card for the 808 was the first one i bought. And the ability to include/integrate the 808 sounds in with the R8 factory based sounds worked great as far as i was concerned. So being that i was the budget bedroom musician the Roland products servered me well.
@@afunnylookingsquash Didn't realize it was that strict. I thought I knew why you did it, wasn't 100% sure it was for that reason. But we're all shwalzuwal creatures. Without shwocks we wouldn't even be here.
I love this video! With that being said, I think your hip-hop history is slightly off: Pre 808s and Heartbreaks, the Southern Renaissance (front around 1997-2007) facilitated by the OutKast, UGK, was Three 6 Mafia, and the likes was fueled by the 808 and how it sounded with an amplifier through a subwoofer. Every major Big K.R.I.T project has a love letter to his subwoofers and 808s.
The only thing bad I can say about this video is that you said analog sounds cant be replicated well with digital methods. These days it's quite easy to do well enough that you cant tell the difference. In fact, Roland themselves do exactly that with many of their modern drum machines.
There are many really bad implementations of virtual analogue synths that destroy their reputation. Many VA synths suffer from really bad aliasing which is what makes them sound harsh, or “digital”. I use the U-He Diva for almost all my sounds these days, and my analogue synths collect dust in the corner, there’s really no difference and the diva, as it is a plugin, can come with me on my laptop wherever I go.
@@tawmifm the 808 is not the first programmable drum machine (the Italian company EKO did that years before, and created the ubiquitous 16 steps interface in the process). It's not even ROLAND's first programmable drum machine (the cr78 was). Also, the first linn drum machine was out a few months before, and cleaned the floor... Analogue sounds were yesterday's flavour, and the 808 was doomed at birth, hence didn't revolutionise the world when it came out as implied here. Yes, Planet Rock changed that, and Rick Rubin indeed. But that was after Roland discontinued it...
I was watching an interview recently with Nile Rogers and he brought up a point that the TR-808 was originally designed as a machine to help musicians practice along to a percussion track easily - that fact actually makes sense in the context that Roland set out to make the drum machine fully programmable and the first of its kind.
I dont even know how I came across your channel in the first place but man I really love to watch your videos. Not only do they match my interests very well and steady. The length of your "history of.." videos is perfect, not too long and comprehensive but done with solid amount of research that is just on-point. Last not least your narration is great, I really like your voice and how you use it 🙂
Oh and I think the microKORG could be a nice topic. I owned one years ago but wasnt to happy with that somehow weird patch matrix navigation. but the sound is crazy and theres a reason why this little synth is used and loved so widely until today
Your answer is probably algorithm
I personally never owned a TR-808, however I did own a R8. Once i learned of the availability of sound cards, the sound card for the 808 was the first one i bought. And the ability to include/integrate the 808 sounds in with the R8 factory based sounds worked great as far as i was concerned. So being that i was the budget bedroom musician the Roland products servered me well.
video on the TR-909 when?
reasons rebirth was for many our first encounter with 808s i played alot with it !
one of my favourite channels rn!
This was a very well made video keep up the good work
Marvin Gaye's "Shwalzuwal Healing"? Don't recall that one.
I can’t say sexual otherwise the video will get flagged and age restricted so I put a filter over the word
@@afunnylookingsquash Didn't realize it was that strict. I thought I knew why you did it, wasn't 100% sure it was for that reason.
But we're all shwalzuwal creatures. Without shwocks we wouldn't even be here.
Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis used this best plus the first boom on record SoS Band "Tell me if you still care" early 80s like 83 i believe 🤔
Thanks a lot for Your videos, Sir. I humbly suggest that You research and create a video on Band in a Box.
I’m very intrigued about music sounds an historical information I love ❤️ it.
Great vid.
I still got mine a little beat up.miss a few buttons but it powers up aint been use in 30 years
Your channel is underrated asf
808 video on Apple already done it
i'd love to see a video on the Roland SC-88
A video about novation x-station or novation in general
I wouldn’t say “entire” history but nice upload!
I’m here because of that Cat from Hi-Fi Rush that’s named after this thing.
I love this video! With that being said, I think your hip-hop history is slightly off: Pre 808s and Heartbreaks, the Southern Renaissance (front around 1997-2007) facilitated by the OutKast, UGK, was Three 6 Mafia, and the likes was fueled by the 808 and how it sounded with an amplifier through a subwoofer.
Every major Big K.R.I.T project has a love letter to his subwoofers and 808s.
Why did you edit yourself saying the word "sexual"?
Because UA-cam checks for profanity or potentially non advertiser friendly words and you can get demonetized for it
Also, you constantly referred to the TR-808 as “Roland 808”.
showed up at 0 likes 3 views and 0 comments lol
nice
I thought the 808 was released in 1978
That was the Roland CR-78, a non-programmable precursor to the TR-808 called the CompuRhythm that only had preset patterns.
The only thing bad I can say about this video is that you said analog sounds cant be replicated well with digital methods. These days it's quite easy to do well enough that you cant tell the difference. In fact, Roland themselves do exactly that with many of their modern drum machines.
There are many really bad implementations of virtual analogue synths that destroy their reputation. Many VA synths suffer from really bad aliasing which is what makes them sound harsh, or “digital”. I use the U-He Diva for almost all my sounds these days, and my analogue synths collect dust in the corner, there’s really no difference and the diva, as it is a plugin, can come with me on my laptop wherever I go.
Kool video, but no new info.
No mention of the 303?
TB-303 had nothing to do with the TR-808s notoriety.
a few fallacies and misinformations there....
Are you going to point them out? Or just say shit?
Okay I did just get to the part that implied Kanye invented the 808 bassline >>
@@tawmifm the 808 is not the first programmable drum machine (the Italian company EKO did that years before, and created the ubiquitous 16 steps interface in the process). It's not even ROLAND's first programmable drum machine (the cr78 was). Also, the first linn drum machine was out a few months before, and cleaned the floor... Analogue sounds were yesterday's flavour, and the 808 was doomed at birth, hence didn't revolutionise the world when it came out as implied here.
Yes, Planet Rock changed that, and Rick Rubin indeed. But that was after Roland discontinued it...
Good sound. Rinsed to death. Thanks to kids "cooking beats"...