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Blue Monday Bassline – New Order SP-808+BCR-2000
The Roland #SP808 has an amazing internal synthesizer which can be controlled by external hardware. In this video you hear the monophonic synth playing the bassline of New Orders’ Blue…
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The Roland MV-8000 Production Studio
End of August 2018 a new machine arrived, the Roland MV-8000 Production Studio. As you may know I’m a big fan of the Roland SP-808 Groovesampler and people told me…
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Get on the Dancefloor
Originals The late ’80s is the period when I started to go out. Well…I was 15 in 1988 and we went to an official dance school to learn the cha-cha-cha,…
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The Spiral sequence with the MC-50 and SP-808
Vangelis 1977 The artist Vangelis launched his album ‘Spiral’ in 1977. A classic masterpiece full with synthesizers. The music is used in series, movies, documentaries, tv-shows and so on. So,…
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The original SP-808 250MB Demo Zip Disk
Happy New Gear! Back in the late 90’s/early 00’s you could have bought the Roland SP-808 Groovesampler. When you bought it Roland delivered a Demo Zip Disk to make sure…
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The Basics: easy sampling with the Roland SP-808
Born in 1998 so this year turning 20, the Roland SP-808 Groovesampler. At the time a revolutionary machine and in 2018 a heavily underrated unit. In this post I share…