Aira Info

Nice that Roland continue to add content and updates to this, with some newly added System-8 patches and effects for the VT-4, but what has piqued ny interest is the new option to send patches to the System-8 direct from the site rather than having to transfer them to an SD card. This means that it would appear that the System-8 now supports Sysex, one thing that it seemed to have lacked.

Now, if only they would release the specs for it, then we could start on the road to building a librarian, or setups for the BCR200 and other controllers.

Roland Aira Microsite.

I’ve added a page for some System-8 patches I’ve been putting together. Whilst waiting for my Boog to arrive, I thought I’d try porting some patches from it to the System-8 so there’s two lots of patches derived from patches designed for the original Mood Minimoog. There’s a set of patches created just using the System-8’s FM oscillators and a set where I’ve used different combos of oscillators and filters.

These can be downloaded as individual bank files, or as one complete file containing all the banks.

Enjoy:-)

System-8 Patches

New update for the System-8, plus a bank of patches and a new manual.

Update history
[ Ver.1.20 ] JUN 2018
Additional Functions
Please refer to the “Reference Manual” for detailed information in the [ Owner’s Manuals ].

Two types of variations were added to the oscillator ( FM x 2 ).
Five types of variations were added to the filters ( JUPITER-8, JUNO-106, Formant x 2, Harmonics ).
An overdub mode was added to the step sequencer.

Bug Fixes
The following bugs were fixed.

Performances sometimes fail to be saved correctly.
Other minor bugs.

Download here.

Patches here.

And updated manual here. The reference manual shows all the variations available for the new FM oscillators and the variations for the filters. Looking forward to trying them out:-)

The Promars, SH-2 and System-100 plug-outs are now available in the Roland Content Store:-)

Roland Content Store

Is now available from Roland, and very lush it sounds too:-)

Roland System-8 Update Page

Don’t forget to do a system reset to load the new 106 patches.

The controls on the System-8 are not that different from the System-1 so the diagram from the SH-101 plug-out should suffice in matching the controls, but in case there is a need for one I have created a new image showing the mapping:

Or, a PDF version is here

Added MX-1 and System-8 cheatsheets on the cheatsheets page, tho’ TBF, the System-8 one is just a list of the available CCs ATM.

Roland have announced an updated SH-101 Plug-out to make it compatible with the System-8, so it can now plug-out to the 8 as well as the System-1. The firmware for the System-1 has also been updated so that it works with the updated SH-101. The updated Plug-out also allows the System-8 to use the librarian contained in the Plug-out, which is nice:-)

Based on this upate, we can assume further updates will be made for the System-1 so that other Plug-out updates will work with it as well.