Lofi beats with the Roland R8 vintage drum machine and WaveRex WaveR8 card / Review and demo
A review and exploration of the WaveRex R8 card, which allows you to put your own samples on to the Roland R8, effectively turning it into a gritty lofi beat making monster. Huge thanks to Marco for the loan of the WaveRex - find out more here -- https://waverex.de/de/ Timestamps 00:00 Intro lofi jam 00:54 Intro to the R8, with totally awesome demos 02:19 What is WaveRex 03:32 History of EPROMS and cool stuff 04:50 WaveRex in use 05:50 Downsides 06:52 R8 considerations 08:04 Jam 2 - synthy stuff 09:45 Jam 3 - more lofi joy 10:54 Summary Still no Patreon, but you can buy me a beer/guitar strings with the 'thanks' button under the video. Thanks so much for watching and please comment below!

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