Published by Nig on 13 Nov 2015 at 02:02 pm
Cheat Sheets
Cheat sheets for Aira gear, detailing available functions. These are pdf files, which can be downloaded.
TB-3 Patch Sheet
Blanks for recording TB-3 patterns.
In this example, I’ve used ‘D’ to indicate a single press of the left Octave PAD and ‘U+’ to indicate two presses of the right hand octave pad, thus raising the pitch two octaves.
Details all the effects settings available on the TB-3. These can only be accessed using sysex so I have included the memory addresses and available values for each of the parameters.
The sysex string should be of the format F0 41 10 00 00 7B 12 ( four address locations ) ( val ) ( chksum ) F7. See the Sysex page for more details.
This is a cleaned up version of the file TR-8_EfxParameter.pdf located on Roland Japan’s website and includes the TR-8 Sidechain types available for the External input.
Tried to bring together all the manual references for various functions in this, especially where the SHIFT button is used. Bound to have missed something tho’ but still useful, I hope.
I was getting confused which pattern I had with which kit, so I created a sheet to record them. This is on Google Drive so you can download or copy it to keep your own record, if you so wish. The blank version matches pattern 1 with kit 1, pattern 2 with kit2 and so on, but in reality they can be all over the place, so just edit as required.
This now includes a separate sheet detailing the default patterns and kits.
There’s not actually many ‘cheats’ I’ve found for the System-8 yet, so this is just a list of the MIDI CCs. There were actually a few missing from Roland’s official document so I’ve added them in. I’ve also added the Jupiter-8 equivalents.
One big omission from this is the details of the Mastering options as it’s difficult to work out what they actually are (there’s actually 65 of them!) and I’ve been unable to find any info on any of Roland’s sites for these. The fact that they exist is not actually documented in the manual either. I’ve included the CC controls available in the mixer modes but not the Surface Controller mode and will probably do this as a separate document in the not too distant future.
Hopefully contains all the shortcuts up to v1.60
juno on 03 Jun 2017 at 11:53 pm #
hey
there’s an entry missing in your TB-3 cheat sheet
ENV + turn value to write current sound to disk
the layout will blink, hit start to confirm
Nig on 06 Jun 2017 at 5:15 pm #
Thanx, I’ve got some other updates to do so will add this in.
Lord Anthrax on 24 Sep 2017 at 10:42 am #
hello! first of all: thank you very much! all of you! i am new to this and i needed this cheat sheet and was searching for it.
now something i want to add:
i watched a video on youtube where a guy showed how to calibrate the touchpad. he called it secret mode but i think the right name is maintenance menu or something like that because it shows a big M.
hold [step rec+realtime rec] while you power on the tb-3
navigate the menu with the value knob and press [play/stop] to select and start the programm
m-1=show firmware version
m-2=?
m-3=led-test (everything will light up)
m-4=touchpad calibration (followed by a sound test with a loud sound even if you turn down the volumen on the tb-3. please be prepared! followed by a factory reset)
m-5=?
?m-6=??
i cant remember everything and im unsure what some programs do… i dont have the tb-3 in front of me at the moment so excuse any wrong info
all credits for the knowledge of this goes to the guy on youtube.
ive mailed the roland service team and asked for a pdf but its weekend and to be honest: i dont think that im the first one requesting a real manual for this great peace of hardware. thanks again for all your hard work. hopefully i gave some info that helps.
greetings from germany,
nico
Nig on 30 Sep 2017 at 6:23 am #
Thanx Nico, some good info there:-) Not sure you will get much else from Roland, unfortunately but good luck.
Apologies for not approving comments quickly, not enough hours in the day these days:-(
Cheers
Nig
Satu on 27 Jul 2018 at 2:37 pm #
Why no VT-3 “Cheat Sheet”? It has 6 save slots now, and other additional features that I forgot per sound option.
Nig on 30 Jul 2018 at 3:37 pm #
When some kind person buys me one, I’ll do one, promise:-)
Fluffy on 04 Aug 2018 at 6:39 pm #
I couldn’t find a TR-8S pattern/kit list on Roland’s site so ended up making my own. Naturally, 2 days later, I found yours which is much better.
Well done! Thanks!
DiAL033 on 11 Dec 2019 at 7:22 pm #
Hi Nig,
thanks for all those nifty cheat cheets! However, I have a question regarding the TR-8 sheet. At the very bottom of the doc there are some midi notes listed, that are suppose to toggle the accent, delay, etc. patterns on/off and un/mute. How are those suppose to work? Do I have to send them on a different channel, with a certain velocity? I can’t seem to get them to work. Also 2 of those note commands would clash with the notes for the base drum sounds?
Nig on 12 Dec 2019 at 8:15 pm #
You need to go by the note numbers rather than the octave assignments, I think C0 for the Accent is note #12 and the others just follow incrementally. The kick notes are 35 and 36.
This is from memory but I’ll try and map this all out and update the sheet.
Thanks.
Maurice Verkerke on 01 Aug 2020 at 11:32 pm #
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