With the Black Friday music deals rolling in thick and fast, it’s the perfect time to expand your arsenal of sounds and hardware. Amazon is helping you to do this by cutting the price on a rage of Roland gear, including some great savings on some of its most popular drum machines. Right now, there’s a massive $100 off the Roland TR-06- that’s a 25% discount - and $60 off the Roland TR-6S.
The Roland TR-06 takes the classic TR-606 format and builds on it for contemporary beat-making. As well as more detailed sound editing with tuning, decay, and pan on each instrument, you can manipulate the virtual circuit gain for each sound too - something that isn’t possible on its single-circuit analog counterpart.
There’s FX too, with an on-board compressor to add punch, and the versatile tempo delay offers an extra rhythmic dimension to your patterns.
The sequencing capabilities have been enhanced, offering 16-steps just like the TR-606, but here you have greater control with sub-step, step loop and probability controls for each step to incorporate more variation into your patterns.
Roland has also added integration options for the rest of your gear too. USB and MIDI means that the TR-606 communicates seamlessly with your DAW, as well as the the plugin version of the TR-606. Plus there’s 5 trigger output jacks, and one trigger input, allowing you to hook the TR-06 to your modular gear and sequence direct from the little silver box! Read out full Roland TR-06 review for more.
Elsewhere, Amazon has discounted the TR-6S, which offers a hugely powerful sound and feature set for even less. With this Black Friday deal, you can bag the TR-6S for $349.99, down $60 from its regular $409.99 price.
Inside, there’s sounds based on multiple Roland classics such as the 808, 909, 707 and 606, arranged into 128 presets, with a further 128 slots for you to freely mix and match the sounds for your own custom kits.
As well as this, it features an FM sound engine for you to create hybrid sounds and effects within your beats. Plus, you can import your own samples too thanks to the included SD Card port, allowing you to add sounds from your own productions into your patterns with ease.
The fun doesn’t stop there, because Roland has included a heap of effects ranging from filtering, transient-shaping, distortion and saturation to modulation, delays, reverbs and more.
There’s a 16-step sequencer, USB audio/MIDI interface, and it can even run off batteries for mobile beat-making! Diver deeper in our full Roland TR-6S review.
More Black Friday deals from around the web
- Sweetwater: Up to 70% off Black Friday sale until 27 November
- Guitar Center: Big holiday savings on guitars, drums, keys & more
- Musician's Friend: Up to 15% off with code 'BLACKFRIDAY' until 28 November
- Thomann: Cyber Week is live! Save up to 60%
- Amazon: Shop all early-Black Friday instrument deals
- Native Instruments: Save 50% on 250 plugins
- Plugin Boutique: Save up to 96% off iZotope, Sonnox and more
- Waves: Early Black Friday deals deliver 90 essential plugins from $29.99
- Positive Grid: 50% off BIAS software and money off the Spark amp
- IK Multimedia: Big savings on plugins, iOS apps and more
- Gear4music: Shop their clearance sale on music gear
- Reverb: The pre-Black Friday sale is now live!
