it's mindblowing to see how much of a technological leap was made in the last 30 years. nowadays one single snare sample would weight as much as that floppy disk
I miss my W30! To the bloke who said it had a terrible user interface... Maybe. But I loved mine. It's like a camera - whinge about megapixels all you like, it's what you do with it that counts...
I picked up a W-30 w/scsi a few years back. I am using a similar light for my screen, even though I have a backlight replacement, I just leave it as is. It's a wonderful controller. I put my computer keyboard on top of the floppy disk area (sits nice and flat) and a Novation Nocturn on the open area to the right. After checking out the sampling function I picked up all the Roland samplers from yesteryear, from the s50 (with monitor) to the 760. Even though it became more of a performance sequencer live for Liam, I really enjoy sampling with it. Great video! I have many original Roland sample disks that the W-30 can read. When I see a new wizbang midi controller, I just laugh, so much can still be done done with gear from a certain era.
Completely bowled over and I didn't even know till watching this, these type of keyboards were in existence to accomodate the little floppy disks. Charley I presume must have been made on this. I think Njoi and Altern 8 used Korg, not sure. I bet on this particular one, you could quite easily record LFO-LFO. Incredible :-)
He actually used this keyboard/sampler on the jilted generation album too. It wasn't until FOTL that he started using computer and software DAW sequencers.
absolutely fantastic, thanks for uploading, really enjoyed watching it, and i'm still amazed at how simple the ingredients are and the method for putting them together, to make such a huge sounding anthem. well, simple if you're liam howlett..
I've loved so much this machine in the 90's,and made many live acts whith the w30 synchronized whith the raven quasimidi.I still have it,full of dust,don't know if it still works.Actually,it is a little obsolete , whith the own interest to have 8 separate mono outputs.If you use 2 outputs channels and assign a left part of a sample to one,and the right part to another one,you have a stereo sound (2x 30khz mono and 16 bits definition).The definition its 16 bits 30khz mono sounds,a little "small" today comparing to the actual definitions,and the floppy disks are very difficult to find.Mine had a hard disk and I had added the kw30 wich is a kit that allows it to work whith a scsi hard disk.And the songs are so long to load! but it stays a funny toy.
The days before you had laptops and programs like Cubase and Garage Band, I could imagine it being quite laborious to make tracks like that back then (the process was probably much slower and longer too) yes actual music making programs did exist back then but even then the technology wasn’t quite there yet and it wasn’t like you could take a whole computer with monitor and keyboard and put it on stage with you plus Liam probably had like three or four of these keyboards playing different tracks (or he made a live mix which had the setlist for gigs and stuff) but regardless of all those things some great songs by the likes of The Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Altern 8, Fatboy Slim, Shades of Rhythm, Orbital and others were made on things like this so you can’t deny it was worth it 😁
I had one at the age of 15-16, but i couldnt work good with it. I sold it and bought an Ensoniq ASR-10 later, wich was much easier to work with. I still have my ASR-10 between the rest of my collection.
this is the real deal, was confirmed by the prodigy's website admin Theresa. Liam sold it to a mate of his 15+ years ago. The video was made by liams mates brother.
@@1mm375 yeah the W30 and Liam's 303 and Tb03 I now own, along with other keyboards. I've posted and will be posting more on my other channel www.youtube.com/@mrniftyreviews
Back in tha day the samples were recorded from vinyl then on to floppy But what program did they / he use to put them on to disc for use on the keybord or say a akia sampler ?
Why would liam sell it , then again Roland must have sent him a shit load of w 30s and I still noticed at least one on stage up till 2005 , the screen is gone on mine works well if I shine a strong light on it but really badly faded any body can put these samples into their own w 30 , pretty much all originals are here on TH-cam but what liam done all them years ago in his bedroom with this machine is just brilliant , I prefer the old sound liam had before using software it's like a certain human edge or rawness got lost along the way , love this machine ,organic input all the way
@@jiltedgenerator oh that’s cool mate. my dad went to a lot of raves and prodigy concerts in the 90s he gave me a Jilted Generation sweater for christmas
Yup Jiltedgenerator kupił ten egzemplarz :D na kanale ma powrzucane różne ciekawe rzeczy Posiada kilka syntezatorów Liama :D co jakiś czas próbuje gościa kopnąć aby w końcu coś nagrał :D (siedzi na grupkach so...)
the disk contain the data used on a sick track,it's a piece of history plus he can use it,yes it's formatted to work on that brand of keyboard not sure if it's for this specific keyboard... plus the buyer got find his own sounds...
+Daniel Thorp definitely... cause they still performing their old classics ..plus they've changed gears over the years. .at one point they've even used softwares also....
@@jossymusic752 i bought this keyboard from the guy in this video. And one of the stipulations of sale was not to distribute the material on the disk unfortunately 👍
So what if it was? Liam did play most of his stuff by hand, he was and is a classically trained pianist, so I expect he likes to actually play stuff as well as sequence, bizarre how some people still care so much about virtuosity, so called "real music"over substance.
Obviously you don't understand quite what Liam was capable of and just how talented he was/is .. there is a reason you know who he is and what their music is ...he's fucking talented
For example that bassline was first recorded as the single note :P then aranged and rerecorded as the sample once again you know limitations of the hardware :P
✨🙄🙄🙄🙄BAD GEAR....!!!...I have one for the last 6 months...I made a big mistake buying this item....✨🫣🫣🫣🫣..cannot pan anything...in ..out only mono... poor frequency... little time for sampling...the loop doesn't solve the problem...no effects...bad menu...a very primitive sampler...✨🫣🫣🫣✨👎👎👎👎👎👎👎
![[Eng Sub] Roland XPS-30 performance keyboard](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/G5MmvDJt1jU/mqdefault.jpg)
you should make an hardrive copy of this, floppy disk is realy fragile, this midi and sample data are piece of electronic music history.
it's mindblowing to see how much of a technological leap was made in the last 30 years. nowadays one single snare sample would weight as much as that floppy disk
Pure music history.
Used to own this legend workstation more than 10yrs ago. Awesome machine, raw.
I miss my W30! To the bloke who said it had a terrible user interface... Maybe. But I loved mine. It's like a camera - whinge about megapixels all you like, it's what you do with it that counts...
Man that's like owning the guitar slash used to make appetite for destruction.
That is a true piece of history, so many memories, ..... very blurred memories
I picked up a W-30 w/scsi a few years back. I am using a similar light for my screen, even though I have a backlight replacement, I just leave it as is. It's a wonderful controller. I put my computer keyboard on top of the floppy disk area (sits nice and flat) and a Novation Nocturn on the open area to the right. After checking out the sampling function I picked up all the Roland samplers from yesteryear, from the s50 (with monitor) to the 760. Even though it became more of a performance sequencer live for Liam, I really enjoy sampling with it. Great video! I have many original Roland sample disks that the W-30 can read. When I see a new wizbang midi controller, I just laugh, so much can still be done done with gear from a certain era.
To be fair, Liam probably had the entire production run of the W30 :D
Your own remix of Everybody in the place lol ! Nice one !
Completely bowled over and I didn't even know till watching this, these type of keyboards were in existence to accomodate the little floppy disks. Charley I presume must have been made on this. I think Njoi and Altern 8 used Korg, not sure. I bet on this particular one, you could quite easily record LFO-LFO.
Incredible :-)
He actually used this keyboard/sampler on the jilted generation album too. It wasn't until FOTL that he started using computer and software DAW sequencers.
He still used it on concerts, up to late '00s.
absolutely fantastic, thanks for uploading, really enjoyed watching it, and i'm still amazed at how simple the ingredients are and the method for putting them together, to make such a huge sounding anthem. well, simple if you're liam howlett..
This is also what Three Six Mafia used to make their first album along side an MPC60
Thats a piece of history right there!!
What a legend, your a lucky guy having that
I've loved so much this machine in the 90's,and made many live acts whith the w30 synchronized whith the raven quasimidi.I still have it,full of dust,don't know if it still works.Actually,it is a little obsolete , whith the own interest to have 8 separate mono outputs.If you use 2 outputs channels and assign a left part of a sample to one,and the right part to another one,you have a stereo sound (2x 30khz mono and 16 bits definition).The definition its 16 bits 30khz mono sounds,a little "small" today comparing to the actual definitions,and the floppy disks are very difficult to find.Mine had a hard disk and I had added the kw30 wich is a kit that allows it to work whith a scsi hard disk.And the songs are so long to load! but it stays a funny toy.
The days before you had laptops and programs like Cubase and Garage Band, I could imagine it being quite laborious to make tracks like that back then (the process was probably much slower and longer too) yes actual music making programs did exist back then but even then the technology wasn’t quite there yet and it wasn’t like you could take a whole computer with monitor and keyboard and put it on stage with you plus Liam probably had like three or four of these keyboards playing different tracks (or he made a live mix which had the setlist for gigs and stuff) but regardless of all those things some great songs by the likes of The Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Altern 8, Fatboy Slim, Shades of Rhythm, Orbital and others were made on things like this so you can’t deny it was worth it 😁
Atari STs with monitors were regularly taken on tour by a lot of bands for MIDI sequencing via Cubase or Pro 24 etc.
and you could only get a max off 4gb on Harddrives lol
this is a reupload of "Prodigy Liam's Roland W30 Authentic keyboard" video that was deleted by its original uploader
Just goes to show Liam was and is a fucking genius, a legend and GOD!!!!!
Imagine how much that single w30 has created and all the no1s ...can't get my head around that lol
I had one at the age of 15-16, but i couldnt work good with it. I sold it and bought an Ensoniq ASR-10 later, wich was much easier to work with. I still have my ASR-10 between the rest of my collection.
this is the real deal, was confirmed by the prodigy's website admin Theresa. Liam sold it to a mate of his 15+ years ago. The video was made by liams mates brother.
Is This the one you have Now?
I was thinkn same btw ..iv saw 3 303s on here claiming to b liams aswell
@@1mm375 yeah this W30 is mine along with Liam's 303 and Tb03. I have posted on my other channel over at www.youtube.com/@mrniftyreviews
@@1mm375 yeah the W30 and Liam's 303 and Tb03 I now own, along with other keyboards. I've posted and will be posting more on my other channel www.youtube.com/@mrniftyreviews
Awesome. Any chance I could buy a copy of the disk or file image please , from a fellow user? Kind regards . J
OMG, this is like a treasure for a prodigy fans!!! You can easy re-release prodigy early stuff man :D How did You bought this ?
Thats B line @7:45 sounds like the one from Passion - Gat de cor
Gat de cor sampled it off the prodigy
incredible
Ur not the only guy with this disk, CNM gave me a ton of these disks, you prol,y got a CNM duplicate tbh
Catch up soon Night all
why couldn't you have preserved this?
I am gonna make a hardcore tune now
Wow!!! If you don't mind: Also would like to know how much you paid for it.
Back in tha day the samples were recorded from vinyl then on to floppy But what program did they / he use to put them on to disc for use on the keybord or say a akia sampler ?
It was back in the day. It was no computer program. You record the samples right into the keyboard.
Actually there were a lot of trackers etc, but basically you connected the audio source to the keyboard/sampler/etc.
I like the old ways so much,more adventure
there is much more adventure nowadays with DAW's but something is lacking in comparison to those days. my guess is limitations
Why would liam sell it , then again Roland must have sent him a shit load of w 30s and I still noticed at least one on stage up till 2005 , the screen is gone on mine works well if I shine a strong light on it but really badly faded any body can put these samples into their own w 30 , pretty much all originals are here on TH-cam but what liam done all them years ago in his bedroom with this machine is just brilliant , I prefer the old sound liam had before using software it's like a certain human edge or rawness got lost along the way , love this machine ,organic input all the way
starlord he gave it away, like a lot of his equipment. either for charity or to his mates. He recently gave a Moog away.
@@jiltedgenerator hey mate i’ve seen your content and i love it. Did you know Liam Howlett?
@@lilmouse1903 No I don't know Liam personally, I'm just a fan.
@@jiltedgenerator oh that’s cool mate. my dad went to a lot of raves and prodigy concerts in the 90s he gave me a Jilted Generation sweater for christmas
a piece of history
hi there would love to buy a copy of this disc pls let me know if possible / interested. happy to pay good money
Heels there. Could I buy a copy of the disk image from u please? From a fellow enthusiast. J
awesome!
I'd much prefer this instrument to a laptop. The problem is, it's hard to find a clean one, most of them are very beaten up.
Wicked. Can I buy a copy of the disk please for my personal use, from a fellow user?
you should copy all the files in there mate!
EPIC!
First time I saw you guys 1991 🤣🤣
Hello could you send me the tutorial as a sequence of operation of the same video on roland W30?
Nice man!
Doskonały sprzęt Roland w30.
Yup
Jiltedgenerator kupił ten egzemplarz :D na kanale ma powrzucane różne ciekawe rzeczy
Posiada kilka syntezatorów Liama :D co jakiś czas próbuje gościa kopnąć aby w końcu coś nagrał :D (siedzi na grupkach so...)
And now you're selling it.. I've got the Casio drum machine unit used by u96 in Das Boot !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I want it!)
did you nick it?
How did you get hold of the W30?
UrbanSicknessAudio Liam sold it in 2008
how was he cutting his drums on this?
He was probably using something like an Akai S1000 for arranging the drums.
He had a roland tr 909
@@vicioussuspicious894 You can't sample on a TR-909.Those are sampled drumbreaks.
you'd better rename the video to make it available for everyone, I think
why the hell would Liam sell this and his disks?
good question
N Williams this is legit. was confirmed by the website manager.
jiltedgenerator That's pretty damn cool if it genuinely is one of his originals! Which website confirmed it?
The Prodigy Official site.
original sellers post: fans.theprodigy.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&view=topic&catid=5&id=41732&Itemid=176&limitstart=0
Is the bassline directly part of the W30 or is it also sampled?
Sample,for sure.The internal sounds are very "basic"
So hardcore.
What track is 'let's go' from originally ?
+H4NDCRAFTED Everybody In The Place
TheIvanMolotov not sure if trolling mmm
+H4NDCRAFTED first old version
Kirill Starikov No I mean the original source, or is it one of them saying it ?
H4NDCRAFTED i know this track! im fan
why would he sell the disk?
the disk contain the data used on a sick track,it's a piece of history plus he can use it,yes it's formatted to work on that brand of keyboard not sure if it's for this specific keyboard... plus the buyer got find his own sounds...
+Daniel Thorp definitely... cause they still performing their old classics
..plus they've changed gears over the years.
.at one point they've even used softwares also....
+reaz allykhan The keyboard was also sold to a TH-camr names
jiltedgenerator
could you make a copy of th everybody in the place disk and sed it to me please??? Iwill give you my adress if needed
please make a copy of this disk and send me i need it pls👍👍😊
@@jossymusic752 i bought this keyboard from the guy in this video. And one of the stipulations of sale was not to distribute the material on the disk unfortunately 👍
How come the everybody in the place sample has got the bassline under neath it at the end , I've got that sample without the bassline underneath mate
do somebody have this floppy disk?
yes ;)
Yes also the keyboard and the TH-cam channel is jiltedgenerator
so their music is made of audio loops ??? i thought they played all those basslines and synths we heard on their songs :(
So what if it was? Liam did play most of his stuff by hand, he was and is a classically trained pianist, so I expect he likes to actually play stuff as well as sequence, bizarre how some people still care so much about virtuosity, so called "real music"over substance.
Obviously you don't understand quite what Liam was capable of and just how talented he was/is .. there is a reason you know who he is and what their music is ...he's fucking talented
For example that bassline was first recorded as the single note :P then aranged and rerecorded as the sample once again you know limitations of the hardware :P
wow , you're dumb
ohh u must mean the Moog prodigy he used
5:26.
Thank me later
cool, outdated piece of kit, but cool to have none the less.
and?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Don't copy that floppy!
✨👎👎👎👎👎👎🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
✨🙄🙄🙄🙄BAD GEAR....!!!...I have one for the last 6 months...I made a big mistake buying this item....✨🫣🫣🫣🫣..cannot pan anything...in ..out only mono... poor frequency... little time for sampling...the loop doesn't solve the problem...no effects...bad menu...a very primitive sampler...✨🫣🫣🫣✨👎👎👎👎👎👎👎