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A Teacher’s Guide to Live Streaming Your Classes

The need for streaming courses to students online has never been greater. This guide is aimed to help teachers and lecturers navigate the often difficult and technical transition of delivering your normal face-to-face lessons as live streaming courses for your students. We will discuss the following: Do I need a video streaming solution? A typical streaming setup ‘How to’ stream to Facebook, YouTube & Zoom What’s the best streaming

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Learning Piano for Bedroom Producers

Learning to produce your own music can be one of the most fulfilling things you can do as an artist. There’s no better way to

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The Ultimate Guide to the TR-8S Rhythm Performer – Performing in Instrument Play Mode

The TR-8S is called a Rhythm Performer for good reason. The dedicated Pads, Knobs and Faders on the control surface make for a highly playable

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The Ultimate Guide to the TR-8S Rhythm Performer – Create a Melodic Bassline with Tune

This article explores methods for creating a Melodic Bassline in the TR-8S Rhythm Per-former. Of course this same approach can be used for adding a

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The Ultimate Guide to the TR-8S Rhythm Performer – How to Generate a Random Pattern

The performance features in the TR-8S inspire the creation of new rhythms on their own. When you feel like throwing something unexpected into the mix,

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The Ultimate Guide to the TR-8S Rhythm Performer – Copy a Pattern, Kit or Variation

Let’s take a look at copying Patterns, Kits and Variations in the TR-8S.Contributed by Alexander Marlowe for Roland Corporation Australia To copy a Pattern: Press

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The Ultimate Guide to the TR-8S Rhythm Performer – How to Add Shuffle Feel and Adjust Tempo

In this article we take a look at adjusting tempo and adding a shuffle feel to your Patterns in the Roland TR-8S.Contributed by Alexander Marlowe

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My Kid Wants to Learn Drums

“Mum, I want to learn to play the drums”. It’s strange how some sentences have the power to evoke fear in a parent when spoken

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Learn to Play Drums

They say drummers are born with sticks in their hands. Rhythm courses through their veins. As babies they tap their feet and pound their toys.

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Expanding the Roland SPD-SX Sampling Pad

The nine front pads on the SPD-SX make it easy to instantly trigger sounds. Expansion wise, there are several external trigger inputs ready to use

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Using and Applying Effects with the Roland SPD-SX Sampling Pad

Using and applying effects to samples is easy on the SPD-SX. There are three effects units in the SPD-SX which you can run samples through.

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Saving and Backing up the Roland SPD-SX

Protect your valuable SPD-SX sounds and settings with these easy steps. Save your entire SPD-SX setup and all the samples onto a single USB stick

Artists

Interview with Peter James and Simon Kobler from Hillsong UNITED

INTERVIEW – PETER JAMES & SIMON KOBLER FROM HILLSONG UNITED With a brand new album and sample library, Greg Phillips from Australian Musician talks to

Artists

Roland Artist: Drummer Chris Whitten

Introducing Roland Artist: Drummer Chris Whitten Never scared to simply play what the song requires, Chris Whitten is the sort of hit making drummer top

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What is Virtual Tone Wheel Technology?

Everything you need to know about Roland’s Virtual Tone Wheel technology to recreate the classic sound of the tone wheel organ. The classic tone wheel

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What is VA V-Synth technology?

Everything you need to know about Roland’s V-Synth technology. The Roland V-Synth combines multiple oscillator technologies with real time control of a waveform’s pitch, time

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What is Analog Synthesis?

Everything you need to know about Analog Synthesis. Sound is caused by a vibrating object creating changes in air pressure. This vibrates our ear drum,

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What is Analog Circuit Behaviour? (ACB)

Everything you need to know about Roland’s Analog Circuit Behaviour technology to recreate classic analog instruments. Analog Circuit Behaviour (ACB) is the technology behind the

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What is Roland SuperNATURAL technology?

Everything you need to know about Roland’s SuperNATURAL modelling technology to create organic and realistic instruments. Roland SuperNATURAL technology has gone from being a feature

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CUBE Street vs CUBE Street EX – Which One is Right For Me?

The Cube Street range is virtually synonymous with busking and street performance. We’ll go so far as to wager that there isn’t a popular waterfront

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