• Clone of the Roland TR-808
• Improved circuit
  
• 16 instruments on 11 tracks
• Enhanced sequencer
• 256 patterns
• Pattern length up to 64 steps
• Swing/Shuffle
• Analog filter with LP/HP
• Wave Designer
• MIDI In/Out/Thru
• 11 individual outputs
• FX Return
• 3 trigger outputs
• Analog clock inputs and outputs
• USB
  

Sequencer

The RD-8 MkII sequencer has 256 patterns for custom beats, which can be up to 64 steps long. Even odd steps are individually programmable per track. The groove parameters Shuffle and Flam, which are indispensable especially for Chicago Sound and House, have also been integrated. Absolutely performance-oriented is the trigger function, which repeats a preselectable range (1, 2, 4, 8 steps) of sequencer steps in Step Repeat Mode until the key is released. Alternatively, there is Note Repeat, which triggers the selected instrument in four speed levels; perfect for spontaneously bringing variety into the pattern!

Analog effects

The main output has two special features: on the one hand there is a switchable lowpass/highpass filter with manually adjustable cutoff and resonance, on the other hand the Wave Designer; a compressor-like effect that processes the transient and decay times. Depending on the setting, this makes the signal pumpy, spongy or slightly chunky. In addition, you can send the individual outputs through an external effect device such as a delay, bring them back in via the return socket and thus also process them with the two internal effects.