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Dark groovy techno on the TR-1000.

My wife and I have been doing a project were calling 'Avid Field Enthusiasts'. It's a style of IDM that is a bit more introspective and atmospheric.

We do many styles of experimental electronic music, from aggressive jungle and breakcore, to nostalgic sounding electronic lullabies.

But for 'Avid Field Enthusiasts', we are focusing more on introspective, thought provoking melodies and tonalities, finely diced percussion, and maybe a little bit of nostalgia thrown in for good measure.

For this piece, we attempted to mix the sound of old classical/chamber music, with some minor plunderphonics, and some breaks.

Cheers to you from Delco PA!!

Thought I'd share this little guide sheet for Roland's AIRA range and some of their Boutique range. Might come in handy if you're new to them.

What up everybody? I just wanted to introduce myself. I've been in this community for quite a bit of time. Unfortunately I haven't posted a lot in here but I definitely its time for that to change. I started a series off of my 404 called "What's The 404" and I wanted to at least share it in here. I hope you all enjoy it.

In this video I cover the evolution of the 404 from the OG to the MK2. If there is anything I'm missing please feel free to comment on it and let me know. If you learned something new, feel free to share that as well. Im a gear head and I love talking about gear and learning about it.

The 404 is my main piece of gear for performing but it's also the center piece to this whole entire series. I thought yall might be interested.What's The 404 Ep. 1: The Evolution of The SP-404

Glued To The Spot - Cheryl Glasgow (1987)
*sweetened in Ableton*

Cooking up that heat...

👽³

Have owned this little box for about a week or so now, and after a couple of days of owning, I felt ready to make my first song on it - the menu theme from Star Fox 64. Enjoy, and do some barrel rolls!

TR-8S + SP-404 MKII

(Instructions current as of 5/18/2026)

Do you want to see what values all the variables in a JD-08 patch are?

First things first, you need to get the SVD file, which is where all the patch data on your JD-08 are stored.

u/KulshanStudios has an excellent video about how to do this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thogVrRe2jY

For this guide, just follow the instructions up to the 1:37 second mark.

Next, you will need to install Python,

I am using Windows 10, as of this writing, go to this link

https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/

and click the topmost 'Download Windows Installer'

(Disclaimer, these are the settings that worked for me, they may or may not be necessary)

Click the checkbox for PATH and the checkbox for admin privileges and then install, when asked later about a 260 character path limit, click agree to change.

You might need to restart your PC at this point.

Now go to https://github.com/NilsKr/JD08PatchManager and click the green button titled 'code' and download zip.

Extract the zip to a folder, wherever you like though for sake of this discussion, if you have a secondary hard drive, unzip it to a folder on the root of that drive (not sure to what extent this makes a difference, it's just how I did it).

Put the SVD file you took from the JD-08 earlier and put it in the same folder as the JD-08 patch manager

Double click patchmanager dot py.

For the scope of this guide, you just need one svd file, click the buttons with three dots and in both instances, select the SVD file you took from the JD-08.

In the left field, select the patch that you want to look at. In the right field, for the sake of this guide, select any other patch, it makes no difference.

A new window labeled Patch Comparison should open up and the list on the left will have every value for every variable in the patch.

DISCLAIMER: As of 5/18/2026 the creator of the JD-08 Patch Manager hasn't verified with absolute certainty that every label for every variable is 100% accurate as they do not themselves own a JD-08 and can't verify it themselves. Speaking just for myself, at a glance, the labels do seem to be accurate but beware of possible discrepancies.

SPECIAL THANKS TO u/nkronert FOR MAKING THE JD-08 PATCH MANAGER AND FOR THEIR ATTENTION AND ASSISTANCE VIA EMAIL TO THIS MATTER!

SPECIAL THANKS TO JOHANNES SCHULTZ FOR THE ORIGINAL PATCH STRUCTURE ANALYSIS

AND SPECIAL THANKS TO u/KulshanStudios FOR THE VIDEO GUIDE FOR GETTING SVD FILES OFF THE JD-08

Short jam on this amazing machine! 🥁👊🏻

Hi all, I’m wanting to get into printing some shirts but I’ve run into some issues printing on HTV and seeing banding occur, even though my regular sticker printing has been fine. Here’s a list of things I’ve tried but still haven’t resolved the issue. Thanks to anyone that reads all of this, it’s driving me crazy! Any tips or recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

Printer: Roland TrueVIS VG2-540
Media: Siser EasyColor printable HTV
Head height: low

Banding is visible even from ~2–3 feet away under normal room lighting

Normal sticker/vinyl output on the Roland has been printing fine recently

Things I’ve already tried:

Standard 10p

Standard 12p

High Quality 13p

High Quality 16p

Uni-directional printing

Bi-directional printing

Error Diffusion

Dither

True Rich Color

True Rich Color Soft

PET Film profile

Generic Heat Transfer profile

Regular sticker/vinyl profile

Lowering heater temps

Feed adjustment calibration at:
-0.05
0.00
+0.05

Shrinking artwork size

Testing different artwork with less solid fill

Manual printhead cleaning

Nozzle check (mostly clean, only tiny minor inconsistencies)

Other notes:

PET Film profile seemed slightly better than other profiles, but banding was still clearly visible

Smaller graphics look cleaner; larger smooth fills show the issue much more

Colors like purple/blue seem to reveal the banding worst

Cyan ink is somewhat low, but not empty

Prints are dry immediately after printing (doesn’t appear to be wet ink smearing)

Feed calibration changes did not meaningfully affect the banding

Increasing passes beyond 12p did not meaningfully improve output

The issue seems specific to printable HTV/transfer media rather than general printer quality