Roland V-Synth XT 🧻🧻🧻🧻
What’s in a name? Roland loves to make up new names. The least change brings on the most flamboyant wording, in those special ‘space’ fonts that Roland and SONY adore.…
What’s in a name? Roland loves to make up new names. The least change brings on the most flamboyant wording, in those special ‘space’ fonts that Roland and SONY adore.…
Granddaughter of Yacht Many world events took place in the years 2000 – 2004, some wars for example. Over at Roland it seems an evil witch cast a spell over…
Be kind and tender to the Frog,And do not call him names,As ‘Slimy skin,’ or ‘Polly-wog,’Or likewise ‘Ugly James,’Or ‘Gape-a-grin,’ or ‘Toad-gone-wrong,’Or ‘Billy Bandy-knees’:The Frog is justly sensitiveTo epithets like…
Voices of the Dead This was completely, utterly, an impulse and I was punished for it. I was one of the first people in the world to use one of…
I once owned an Ensoniq ASR-10. They were the top shelf of their time – yes I know there were AKAI boxes back then, but the Ensoniq boxes were for…
Update – version 12 has arrived. The promised interface upgrade is hit and miss – some of the built in rack items are now larger than ants – but not…
🧻🧻🧻🧻💀 Great, Great, Great, Great Granddaughter of the Roland Yacht. Update 8th March 2022 – we now have packages that ‘plug into’ Omnisphere called Sonic Extensions. Given that Omni descends…
uber alles When I write about samplers or tools that include sampling I find myself comparing this or that feature to Kontakt. This is better, this is worse, I’ve made…
This is the old page for versions up to 8. I once compared this software collection to the Smurfs. Let me update that slightly… It’s still the Smurfs, but with…
Congratulations! You’ve bought near a thousand synthesisers, and now spend all your ‘quality time’ swapping internal batteries, making line diagrams, racking and unracking, piling up dead Behringer patch bays and…