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Average rating:
3.8 out of 5
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what do these morons expect? the tr505 came out in 1986, not 1996. its true, this thing has definitely got its share of limitations, but its can pound out some mean sounding shit if you really take the time to chain and insert beats atop of one another. the one complaint ive got is it wont let you program the beats to close to one another, even if you are in tempo, but the sounds still appear, they just dont register on the memory. what i suggest is running an instrument cable from the R/MONO jack to the mic/auxillary jack on your stereo or 4track, then youll be able to get the beats as close together as you want, youll just have to do it manually. i wouldnt trust this little bastard in a live or even a jam session, i say just tape what you do and get a loud stereo to play it back. it sounds ghetto, i know, but its better than spending a half hour cursing and pleading with the thing to work. i give it a 4 cause i actually dig the unit, unlike most other owners it seems. if youve got one to sell you dont want anymore, drop me an email.
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Ok elvis, i'm stupid for taking an old 80's retro budget item and making it usefull? Lol. I got this retro thing ripping out some hard tribal sounding grooves among other things... I would bet money anybody hearing the samples I make with the sucker be them professionally trained or not could even guess what the original sound came from! And there is not special effects that i'm using prick, just a few octaves down with some chorus and maybe a lil distortion. Not very complicated to be honest. So simple infact, maybe I am stupid? Lol.
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Elvis - okay the TR505 sounds like trash compared to modern equivalents - but its so easy to use - hooking it up to a sampler and using the 505 to program the beats and triger the sampler just kicks! Since they can be had so cheap - it makes it worth having. I even remember assinging the top row of buttons to one midi channel, the bottom to another and making each button on each row a different Midi Note number.I then connected it to a synth - so that I could program cool patterns on it.
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the tr505 is a piece o shit there is no reason on earth to buy this thing avoid it even if its free! also if you run anything through a good fx processor it will always sound alot better than the plain 505 sounds stupid comment by previous user
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