That is funny how people complain about Roland until they finally manage to read the manuals and the device becomes vintage. Recently Roland brought its ZenCore engine (along with expansion packs) to the world of entry-level arranger keyboards. That is revolutionary.
I’ve only ever heard people complain about things like Roland not listening to what people really want, and the subscription based vst bs… you basically never own the software…
@@ptr_new In fact you have 20 years of subscription with all the synths, sound packs (more than 8000 sounds) and constant updates before you hit the price tag of a flagship Fantom. I guess it is very good option... I pay for my mobile and cable internet more, seriously.
@@ptr_new But Roland actually listens to good ideas. You won't believe it, but the balanced outputs on the modern Fantom and Jupiter X were my idea after I complained about the low output gain problems of my D-05 minijack output long before these synths were released. I literally asked that every serious synth needs proper balanced outputs. Believe it or not, the wonderfull (but expensive) Jupiter Xm mini keys were born out of my complaints about the fragility of the JD-Xi cheap keyboard. Wait for the Boutique V2 line with the interfaces of the corresponding legendary hardware programmers (think D-05V2 with a PG-1000 interface), this is an idea I wrote to them recently lol. Of course, jokes aside, I do not think that Roland listens to me personally, but it is enough that they over time implement what people want
@@Acrimonious_Snake wow that sounds good actually, at one point even I considered going for the software as they have the JV-1080 VSTi, but after hearing what it sounded like I was like “naahh” and decided just to keep my hardware JV. They really f’cked up some of the presets in the software and they sound nothing like the originals. The software is good if you’ve never heard a real JV and have no comparison…
@@ptr_new I agree, I also noticed a difference between the hardware and software sound of the JV-1080 presets. Although I don't have a real JV-1080, I do have a set of factory JV-1080/2080 sounds inside my Juno DS. Using the 1080VST, I selected a number of interesting sounds, wrote down the names, and then loaded those presets into my Juno (from Roland Axial). There are all factory sounds 1080-2080 converted for Juno DS (also there are almost all of the famous Roland's expansion cards for DS and FA series for free, which is great). I agree there is something wrong with the JV-1080 VSTi, although it sounds good, but these sounds are much better on my Juno. Possibly because of modern wonderful Juno DS effects. I know that one of the most important features of the real JV-1080 was the 32KHz DAC, which produces that legendary unique sound. The VSTi sounds harsher, but hopefully Roland will add DAC emulation in future releases if we ask loud enough. Currently their JV and XV plugins are absolutely identical except that the latter has more waveforms and patches. But we all know that the overall sound character of these modules should be different, they had very different DACs.
Those V-Synths are amazing... I found a V-Synth XT several months ago and I'm still trying to get to know it... it's fantastic... you've scored yourself a brilliant piece of kit!
Thank you so much :) all v-synths are just amazing synths/samplers - the v-synth line was imo the best Roland ever made! Got extremely lucky with the GT but I did have to wait years until an immaculate one came up for a good price, so it took a lot of patience and persistent searching :)
Congrats!!! ❤️❤️❤️ I missed the opportunity to purchase the V-Synth when it came out. It was too expensive for me. I really wanted the VC-1 D-50 expansion card with it. Over the years I have purchased a D-05, a Roland JD-Xi, a System-1 and a Juno DS. Each one is unique and holds a special place in my heart. Honestly, I wouldn't change them to V-Synth now.
Thank you! :) I’m the same with my gear, I think they all have their place and applications, all just depends on what you want out of them, and then there’s certain synths that can do practically anything (with a little bit of imagination and preset tweaking) I think a perfect example of this are my presets for the Alesis Micron. I never expected a virtual-analog synth with only 3 basic waveforms (sine, triangle and square) to produce rich string textures, realistic choirs, majestic church organs, larger than life pads, even acoustic guitar-like plucked instruments…
Wow. It's basically new. Thanks for letting us share in your excitement. Given what you can pull off with the Alesis Micron, keen to see your journey with this :) I played with the original when it came out when I worked in the music store. They can definitely do things other synths can't. Enjoy :) I'd love one.
Thank you for the kind comment :) And yeah, I know right! It looks like it’d never been played before me haha! Crazy how a 20 yr old synth can look like it’s brand new… you couldn’t actually see the condition properly in the advert’s photos so I just believed what the seller said in the “condition” field… glad I did! I can’t wait to explore it more too haha, I’ll be posting some proper videos soon :)
💯!! I was thinking that, the V-Synth and GT both have awesome feeling keybeds, way better than most other keyboards, but I’ll say I also love the KORG Z1 keybed to bits! Very similar feeling to the V-Synth, maybe slightly heavier, it’s a joy to play
Just bought one myself a few weeks back. Not in pristine condition as yours but no scuffs or scratches either. Included a plywood hard case and it all cost me 650€, couldn’t believe my luck. I already had the XT in the rack but now I also have the GT.
@@ptr_new Yeah. I’m in Finland and bought it locally from 150 kilometres away. The dude had it for sale for 1000€ at first but then he lowered the price about 100€ every week. I lost my nerve at 650€ and wondered why no one else had grabbed it before that. Feeling very lucky and happy.
I have one…..felt it being a bit esoteric and difficult to comprehend. I like Shakuhachi like sound. To me V-Synth GT is a sample loop mangling machine, lots of unexpected things happen when using elastic synthesis. Only if the filters’ resonance is a bit more aggressive/self oscillating…..and has a V beam on/off button…..
Nice! It’s got tons of beautiful presets, but yeah one of the more striking ones is that Shaku sound, and I mean, it’s a powerhouse, with VariPhrase, the arsenal of COSM filters, FM, step modulator, arpeggiator, and all the hardware controls like the XY pad and the beams… it’s crazy how much you get! Also, I think you can turn off the D beam?
@@keykiyox come to think of it, you can only turn it off for individual patches, not altogether… not sure how though I just know the initial patches have it turned off
@@ptr_new yeah, right now mine is in a warehouse, so I can’t tell exactly, but thought D beam is always lit…….only we can set it not affecting a patch, perhaps…. I dug up Access Virus TI Snow the day before yesterday and now I am concentrating on it lol
@@keykiyox very nice! But yeah I think you can only really do that, no way to completely turn it off, just basically need to never put anything on top of it haha
Thanks for the demo, Peter. Question. I still have an old Roland D-50 which I love because of the vintage sounds, especially the Persian sounds that were created for it. Can I use my D-50 card that has the sounds on this new Synth? Or does it already have all those sounds that included nice Brass, Strings, and other string-based authentic instruments? Thank you.
@@anamraficorp.7343 well that is a good question - with the original V-Synth you can boot it as a D50 if you have the D50 card. Not sure if you can load custom D50 patches though, but maybe? I could see it being possible but you might need to convert them - or they might just work straight away - honestly never tried it myself. The V-Synth XT (rack) has the D50 card in it by default. However the GT does not have the D50 expansion built in nor does it have a slot for the card.
Thank you so much :) I can only recommend it, it’s a very powerful machine (both the original and GT) check out some of my demos with the original, it’s a beast of a synth: th-cam.com/video/2UDqTE9iOuQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=T-qyksuc3MXfgEUW th-cam.com/video/i0IwkvY0ypU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=90FJwF4Pk5akEENo th-cam.com/video/7Tq1r3qo3fY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=BHZ2gX3xE0G3gOFb th-cam.com/video/GYDcmu89XTA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=CShZxKmu1UkNWaX0
These are awesome demos! You really showcase it's prowess with your sound design and playing. I want all of your soundbanks, but I gotta get a V-Synth first lol.
@@Al.vin.P thank you! :) and yeah, what an incredibly powerful and versatile synth, one of my absolute all time favourites (along with the Kurzweil K2661 and Alesis Micron) and in my opinion the absolute best digital synth Roland ever created
Sound Quality wise, The V-synth, although offering a plethora of possibilities, doesn't come near the shimmer, presence and dynamics of a Roland JD990. Sorry. That is why I sold my V-Synth a long time ago. But that doesn't mean it is a bad synth!! In contrary. It is a beast.
I have heard demos and was quite impressed with the JD, but I always saw it as a really good sounding rompler more than anything, I do see value in both and they’re both great, and also you can always sample JD sounds into the V-Synth, there’s multisamples in the GT like the piano I demoed here :)
@@maccagrabme I just feel about the JD990 that because it was used by a lot of famous artists in the 90’s (because at the time it was the best you could get) it gained cult following. That’s why it’s so expensive and sought after. You don’t actually get much for that £8-900 you’d nowadays pay for one - it’s really just a rompler. A very good sounding rompler yes - but still just a rompler. I do think it’s a bit over-hyped and over priced. But romplers have their place too. They’re great for bread and butter sounds, especially live. I do however prefer synths that are more sound design tools and give you more flexibility, such as the V-Synth, or the Alesis Micron, or the Kurzweil K2661 :)
@@ptr_new I remember first seeing the JD800 in the early 90s and lusted after one ever since. Since then I've used the Roland Cloud version and it sounded quite powerful and the GAS for the hardware has gone. It sounds more refined and punchier than the XV/JV modules but maybe too powerful, I think the JV/XV's sit better in the mix, I certainly wouldn't be paying the price the JD990 module is going for now.
@@maccagrabme I’ve always though the JVs sit really nice in the mix yeah, I have the cheap JV-1010 with the orchestral expansion and I love it, I’ve made so many awesome sounds on it (some of which ended up getting sampled on the V-Synth just recently!) it’s a very inspiring sounding little rompler with a large variety of great sounds I’m planning on making a video of these samples sounds from the JV1010 and the V-Synth :)
Thank you, there’s gonna be even better ones in the next video! :) wow, that doesn’t sound good, so you’ve run diagnostics, calibration and factory reset and still? Cool cat btw!
It has an arpeggiator and a step sequencer with 4 tracks for each tone, and tempo syncable envelopes & LFOs for every aspect of the sound, and the loops can be tempo synced too with VariPhrase :)
What are they doing now? But yeah I do think that the big well-known companies kinda started producing more and more re-hashed products after the early 2000s… and nowadays it’s straight up re-releases - nothing new, nothing innovative, just remakes and rereleases… just like the films coming out nowadays… and even music (so many remakes and covers and sampled stuff on the radio…) It’s the age of unoriginality we’re living in sadly 😕
Oh and of course the subscription based money grabbing is also pretty nasty, not owning what you pay for… but the customers allow it.. they are willing to pay for it, so the companies see it as “tactics working ”
Thank you! Oh yes words cannot describe, I’ve been wanting a GT for years but the prices were way too high for me, so when this came up I couldn’t believe it - had to go for it 😃
duuuuude... almost forgot about this one but it was good! i mean really good... But i remember it was like 2500 new and in todays money it's like more than 3000 so ppl just add some and bought Fantom...
I know right haha I reckon it’s the most innovative & interesting synth Roland ever created - their best in my opinion! They sell for pretty high prices nowadays, I’ve waited almost 4 years to get a good deal cause I wanted a “like new condition” one for a good price :D
💯 agree, it seems that nowadays instrument makers are not very inventive or imaginative - not a lot of new interesting stuff coming out, just remaking / rereleasing old stuff. We live in the age of remakes, sadly… I do think the V-Synth line was Roland’s absolute best! Worth getting one! more videos coming soon ;)
@@ptr_new ,yes, clearly. Roland is always more or less out of the crowd compared to its competitors. Behringer, even if it also surfs on the clones of some brands, also stands out, by their affordable prices and by their phylosophy. 🙂 Come on, I'm subscribing to follow you.
@@lairdtomfrenchelectromusic2545 thank you! :) and yeah I guess as businesses, they’re just trying to make money however they can, some paying less attention to what their customers actually want than others… I still think Roland makes incredibly great products, they last forever, I’ve had my JV-1010 for about 13 years, no issues - and two V-Synths - also no issues, both fully functioning and in immaculate condition :) they’re good products, even if a bit pricey…
@@ptr_new , the quality of the time is not too much the same nowadays. Built to last. Well, I also have a Roland, the Jupiter 80 for 13 years too, still functional and very robust. I also had the X5 DR from Korg that I sold a long time ago, it experienced accidental falls from the height of a synthesizer on a concrete floor during rehearsals, it suffered the shocks without flinching and was still functional. I regret this expander because it really had huge sounds for the time (if I'm not mistaken, I bought it new in 1997)...
@@lairdtomfrenchelectromusic2545 Jupiter 80 eh, that’s nice! If I ever bought anything other than the V-Synth I would have gone for the Jupiter 80 :) good choice there! Also, poor X5DR, haha, I have one myself and love the sounds to bits! It has my all time favourite String sound! (Layer Str) I made a whole track with my N264 (which is basically a repackaged X5D) check it out it’s in my videos
That is funny how people complain about Roland until they finally manage to read the manuals and the device becomes vintage.
Recently Roland brought its ZenCore engine (along with expansion packs) to the world of entry-level arranger keyboards. That is revolutionary.
I’ve only ever heard people complain about things like Roland not listening to what people really want, and the subscription based vst bs… you basically never own the software…
@@ptr_new In fact you have 20 years of subscription with all the synths, sound packs (more than 8000 sounds) and constant updates before you hit the price tag of a flagship Fantom. I guess it is very good option... I pay for my mobile and cable internet more, seriously.
@@ptr_new But Roland actually listens to good ideas. You won't believe it, but the balanced outputs on the modern Fantom and Jupiter X were my idea after I complained about the low output gain problems of my D-05 minijack output long before these synths were released. I literally asked that every serious synth needs proper balanced outputs. Believe it or not, the wonderfull (but expensive) Jupiter Xm mini keys were born out of my complaints about the fragility of the JD-Xi cheap keyboard. Wait for the Boutique V2 line with the interfaces of the corresponding legendary hardware programmers (think D-05V2 with a PG-1000 interface), this is an idea I wrote to them recently lol. Of course, jokes aside, I do not think that Roland listens to me personally, but it is enough that they over time implement what people want
@@Acrimonious_Snake wow that sounds good actually, at one point even I considered going for the software as they have the JV-1080 VSTi, but after hearing what it sounded like I was like “naahh” and decided just to keep my hardware JV. They really f’cked up some of the presets in the software and they sound nothing like the originals. The software is good if you’ve never heard a real JV and have no comparison…
@@ptr_new I agree, I also noticed a difference between the hardware and software sound of the JV-1080 presets. Although I don't have a real JV-1080, I do have a set of factory JV-1080/2080 sounds inside my Juno DS. Using the 1080VST, I selected a number of interesting sounds, wrote down the names, and then loaded those presets into my Juno (from Roland Axial). There are all factory sounds 1080-2080 converted for Juno DS (also there are almost all of the famous Roland's expansion cards for DS and FA series for free, which is great). I agree there is something wrong with the JV-1080 VSTi, although it sounds good, but these sounds are much better on my Juno. Possibly because of modern wonderful Juno DS effects. I know that one of the most important features of the real JV-1080 was the 32KHz DAC, which produces that legendary unique sound. The VSTi sounds harsher, but hopefully Roland will add DAC emulation in future releases if we ask loud enough. Currently their JV and XV plugins are absolutely identical except that the latter has more waveforms and patches. But we all know that the overall sound character of these modules should be different, they had very different DACs.
Those V-Synths are amazing... I found a V-Synth XT several months ago and I'm still trying to get to know it... it's fantastic... you've scored yourself a brilliant piece of kit!
Thank you so much :) all v-synths are just amazing synths/samplers - the v-synth line was imo the best Roland ever made! Got extremely lucky with the GT but I did have to wait years until an immaculate one came up for a good price, so it took a lot of patience and persistent searching :)
I have v-synth GT sinse release in 2007/8 and yesterdat I put it side by side with my Fantom 8, and man the sound of the GT is unprellal
I know right! I think the V-Synth family is the best Roland ever produced! Such a versatile powerhouse with a huge sound :)
Sounds very nice. I know that you will have some awesome performances to share soon.
Thank you so much for the kind comment, and yes, it’s a very inspiring machine, ridiculous amount of power in it! :)
Congrars to the kitten. ....& the GT!!!
Thank you so much! Very happy :)
A modern legend for sure congrats 🎉
Indeed! Thank you so much, new video coming soon :)
Congrats!!! ❤️❤️❤️
I missed the opportunity to purchase the V-Synth when it came out. It was too expensive for me. I really wanted the VC-1 D-50 expansion card with it. Over the years I have purchased a D-05, a Roland JD-Xi, a System-1 and a Juno DS. Each one is unique and holds a special place in my heart. Honestly, I wouldn't change them to V-Synth now.
Thank you! :) I’m the same with my gear, I think they all have their place and applications, all just depends on what you want out of them, and then there’s certain synths that can do practically anything (with a little bit of imagination and preset tweaking) I think a perfect example of this are my presets for the Alesis Micron. I never expected a virtual-analog synth with only 3 basic waveforms (sine, triangle and square) to produce rich string textures, realistic choirs, majestic church organs, larger than life pads, even acoustic guitar-like plucked instruments…
Wow. It's basically new. Thanks for letting us share in your excitement. Given what you can pull off with the Alesis Micron, keen to see your journey with this :) I played with the original when it came out when I worked in the music store. They can definitely do things other synths can't. Enjoy :) I'd love one.
Thank you for the kind comment :) And yeah, I know right! It looks like it’d never been played before me haha! Crazy how a 20 yr old synth can look like it’s brand new… you couldn’t actually see the condition properly in the advert’s photos so I just believed what the seller said in the “condition” field… glad I did! I can’t wait to explore it more too haha, I’ll be posting some proper videos soon :)
best lightwighted keybead i ever played
💯!! I was thinking that, the V-Synth and GT both have awesome feeling keybeds, way better than most other keyboards, but I’ll say I also love the KORG Z1 keybed to bits! Very similar feeling to the V-Synth, maybe slightly heavier, it’s a joy to play
The way the box looked at the beginning, made it look like a fridge.😜
@@mybachhertzbaud3074 fridge by Andertons haha:D
Just bought one myself a few weeks back. Not in pristine condition as yours but no scuffs or scratches either. Included a plywood hard case and it all cost me 650€, couldn’t believe my luck. I already had the XT in the rack but now I also have the GT.
Bloody hell that’s a steal! What a deal, they don’t show up that cheap in the UK ever… very nice! What country did you buy it?
@@ptr_new Yeah. I’m in Finland and bought it locally from 150 kilometres away. The dude had it for sale for 1000€ at first but then he lowered the price about 100€ every week. I lost my nerve at 650€ and wondered why no one else had grabbed it before that. Feeling very lucky and happy.
It would’ve been a steal at 1000€, so I got a very very good deal.
@@AlfaAntikva that is incredible, very good score! Well done, you’ll have loads of fun with it! :)
Great price. Bought mine 8 years ago for 3500€.
Vocal Designer on this thing is quite unique, congrats!
Thank you ever so much! I’ll be sure to test it soon :)
Pure lushness…enjoy 👾
Absolutely loving it so far :D such a beast! Thank you :)
lucky i want one too!!!!
@@psychovoices thank you :) I waited almost 4 years to get one haha! They’re pretty expensive and the prices keep going up!
I have one…..felt it being a bit esoteric and difficult to comprehend. I like Shakuhachi like sound. To me V-Synth GT is a sample loop mangling machine, lots of unexpected things happen when using elastic synthesis. Only if the filters’ resonance is a bit more aggressive/self oscillating…..and has a V beam on/off button…..
Nice! It’s got tons of beautiful presets, but yeah one of the more striking ones is that Shaku sound, and I mean, it’s a powerhouse, with VariPhrase, the arsenal of COSM filters, FM, step modulator, arpeggiator, and all the hardware controls like the XY pad and the beams… it’s crazy how much you get!
Also, I think you can turn off the D beam?
@@ptr_new no, I don’t think so….tell me if you know how to…
@@keykiyox come to think of it, you can only turn it off for individual patches, not altogether… not sure how though I just know the initial patches have it turned off
@@ptr_new yeah, right now mine is in a warehouse, so I can’t tell exactly, but thought D beam is always lit…….only we can set it not affecting a patch, perhaps…. I dug up Access Virus TI Snow the day before yesterday and now I am concentrating on it lol
@@keykiyox very nice! But yeah I think you can only really do that, no way to completely turn it off, just basically need to never put anything on top of it haha
Thanks for the demo, Peter. Question. I still have an old Roland D-50 which I love because of the vintage sounds, especially the Persian sounds that were created for it. Can I use my D-50 card that has the sounds on this new Synth? Or does it already have all those sounds that included nice Brass, Strings, and other string-based authentic instruments? Thank you.
@@anamraficorp.7343 well that is a good question - with the original V-Synth you can boot it as a D50 if you have the D50 card. Not sure if you can load custom D50 patches though, but maybe? I could see it being possible but you might need to convert them - or they might just work straight away - honestly never tried it myself. The V-Synth XT (rack) has the D50 card in it by default. However the GT does not have the D50 expansion built in nor does it have a slot for the card.
@@ptr_new Thank you.
Very nice 👍 I want a V-Synth myself.
Thank you so much :) I can only recommend it, it’s a very powerful machine (both the original and GT) check out some of my demos with the original, it’s a beast of a synth:
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These are awesome demos! You really showcase it's prowess with your sound design and playing. I want all of your soundbanks, but I gotta get a V-Synth first lol.
@@Al.vin.P thank you! :) and yeah, what an incredibly powerful and versatile synth, one of my absolute all time favourites (along with the Kurzweil K2661 and Alesis Micron) and in my opinion the absolute best digital synth Roland ever created
Sound Quality wise, The V-synth, although offering a plethora of possibilities, doesn't come near the shimmer, presence and dynamics of a Roland JD990. Sorry. That is why I sold my V-Synth a long time ago. But that doesn't mean it is a bad synth!! In contrary. It is a beast.
I have heard demos and was quite impressed with the JD, but I always saw it as a really good sounding rompler more than anything, I do see value in both and they’re both great, and also you can always sample JD sounds into the V-Synth, there’s multisamples in the GT like the piano I demoed here :)
I prefer the sound of the V-synth out of the two, the low end on this is probably the best i've heard on digital.
@@maccagrabme I just feel about the JD990 that because it was used by a lot of famous artists in the 90’s (because at the time it was the best you could get) it gained cult following. That’s why it’s so expensive and sought after. You don’t actually get much for that £8-900 you’d nowadays pay for one - it’s really just a rompler.
A very good sounding rompler yes - but still just a rompler. I do think it’s a bit over-hyped and over priced.
But romplers have their place too. They’re great for bread and butter sounds, especially live. I do however prefer synths that are more sound design tools and give you more flexibility, such as the V-Synth, or the Alesis Micron, or the Kurzweil K2661 :)
@@ptr_new I remember first seeing the JD800 in the early 90s and lusted after one ever since. Since then I've used the Roland Cloud version and it sounded quite powerful and the GAS for the hardware has gone. It sounds more refined and punchier than the XV/JV modules but maybe too powerful, I think the JV/XV's sit better in the mix, I certainly wouldn't be paying the price the JD990 module is going for now.
@@maccagrabme I’ve always though the JVs sit really nice in the mix yeah, I have the cheap JV-1010 with the orchestral expansion and I love it, I’ve made so many awesome sounds on it (some of which ended up getting sampled on the V-Synth just recently!)
it’s a very inspiring sounding little rompler with a large variety of great sounds
I’m planning on making a video of these samples sounds from the JV1010 and the V-Synth :)
Looks like a good deal
Thank you I really think so, it’s literally like new, completely immaculate… and a powerhouse :) very happy!
Great sounds, my V-Synth is unusable at the moment, all the patches keep changing on their own, have tried everything but still the same.
Thank you, there’s gonna be even better ones in the next video! :) wow, that doesn’t sound good, so you’ve run diagnostics, calibration and factory reset and still? Cool cat btw!
@@ptr_new Thanks, forgot I mentioned this before!!
@@lardosian mention what? Sorry I’m confused haha
@@ptr_new Did I already mention this issue in one of your other videos, maybe it was someone else, because they also said cool cat!!!
@@lardosian oh okay haha, maybe? 😃 it is a cool cat though!
Good keyboard!
@@sonnguyen4365 it’s amazing! :) I love the v-synth series so much
Félicitations 👏
Thank you :)
It has an arpeggiator or sequencer in?
It has an arpeggiator and a step sequencer with 4 tracks for each tone, and tempo syncable envelopes & LFOs for every aspect of the sound, and the loops can be tempo synced too with VariPhrase :)
The GT has some weird limitations and problems though. Personally, I like the original the best.
I know yeah, it has its drawbacks but also advantages, I like them both and will probably always keep the original as well :) great synths!
Those were the days before d-bag
companies like Roland were absolute monopolies, and didn't spit in their
customers faces like they do today.
What are they doing now? But yeah I do think that the big well-known companies kinda started producing more and more re-hashed products after the early 2000s… and nowadays it’s straight up re-releases - nothing new, nothing innovative, just remakes and rereleases… just like the films coming out nowadays… and even music (so many remakes and covers and sampled stuff on the radio…)
It’s the age of unoriginality we’re living in sadly 😕
Oh and of course the subscription based money grabbing is also pretty nasty, not owning what you pay for… but the customers allow it.. they are willing to pay for it, so the companies see it as “tactics working ”
Very nice, I bet your super pleased. Some of the tones have that slightly wonky feel of the ones you created for the Micron. 🙂
Thank you! Oh yes words cannot describe, I’ve been wanting a GT for years but the prices were way too high for me, so when this came up I couldn’t believe it - had to go for it 😃
Oh yeah those wonky ones I cooked up real quick, some of the presets in this video are my creations playing around with parameters :)
duuuuude... almost forgot about this one but it was good! i mean really good... But i remember it was like 2500 new and in todays money it's like more than 3000 so ppl just add some and bought Fantom...
I know right haha I reckon it’s the most innovative & interesting synth Roland ever created - their best in my opinion! They sell for pretty high prices nowadays, I’ve waited almost 4 years to get a good deal cause I wanted a “like new condition” one for a good price :D
@@ptr_new same here! waiting on some flagships to drop in prices!
@@djkanyon what are you after?
@@ptr_new og King Korg or maybe if i'm lucky Elecrtibe EMX
@@djkanyon not bad, the king korg is sorta like a newer triton isn’t it
It just goes to show that the old ones do much better than the new ones.
The sounds are magnificent!
💯 agree, it seems that nowadays instrument makers are not very inventive or imaginative - not a lot of new interesting stuff coming out, just remaking / rereleasing old stuff. We live in the age of remakes, sadly… I do think the V-Synth line was Roland’s absolute best! Worth getting one! more videos coming soon ;)
@@ptr_new ,yes, clearly.
Roland is always more or less out of the crowd compared to its competitors.
Behringer, even if it also surfs on the clones of some brands, also stands out, by their affordable prices and by their phylosophy. 🙂
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@@lairdtomfrenchelectromusic2545 thank you! :) and yeah I guess as businesses, they’re just trying to make money however they can, some paying less attention to what their customers actually want than others… I still think Roland makes incredibly great products, they last forever, I’ve had my JV-1010 for about 13 years, no issues - and two V-Synths - also no issues, both fully functioning and in immaculate condition :) they’re good products, even if a bit pricey…
@@ptr_new , the quality of the time is not too much the same nowadays. Built to last.
Well, I also have a Roland, the Jupiter 80 for 13 years too, still functional and very robust.
I also had the X5 DR from Korg that I sold a long time ago, it experienced accidental falls from the height of a synthesizer on a concrete floor during rehearsals, it suffered the shocks without flinching and was still functional. I regret this expander because it really had huge sounds for the time (if I'm not mistaken, I bought it new in 1997)...
@@lairdtomfrenchelectromusic2545 Jupiter 80 eh, that’s nice! If I ever bought anything other than the V-Synth I would have gone for the Jupiter 80 :) good choice there!
Also, poor X5DR, haha, I have one myself and love the sounds to bits! It has my all time favourite String sound! (Layer Str)
I made a whole track with my N264 (which is basically a repackaged X5D) check it out it’s in my videos