Secrets of the Roland V-Synth - Retrospective/Deep-Dive

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  • Опубликовано: 28 дек 2024

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  • @magicalsynthadventure3216
    @magicalsynthadventure3216  Год назад +3

    Favourite patch, anyone? 😊

    • @levisj125
      @levisj125 Год назад +2

      It has to be [Darkfucker], because of the secret key! 😂 Or should I say Hainbach button? 🤯

    • @Stakkeroid
      @Stakkeroid Год назад +1

      Not one of the patches, but my favorite sound is from 20:35 on… lovely! Also I love Unstable.EP, simple as it may be.

    • @elmosexwhistle
      @elmosexwhistle Год назад

      @@levisj125that’s a fun patch 😊

    • @elmosexwhistle
      @elmosexwhistle Год назад +1

      @@Stakkeroidthanks. I also love anything that uses a little Waveshaping 😊

    • @donovanrebbechi3334
      @donovanrebbechi3334 Год назад +1

      quite a few good ones. I like "creeps" with the harmonic content you can dial in and out. A lot of the "shimmering sounds" are really good for example #fairlight$

  • @AlexBallMusic
    @AlexBallMusic Год назад +12

    Brilliant Paulee, nice one! I particularly liked what you found at 17:30 and also 20:39, really beautiful and unexpected.
    Definitely one of Roland's best 00s synths.

  • @AudioPilz
    @AudioPilz Год назад +9

    Great stuff!!!

  • @jjlacey1970
    @jjlacey1970 3 месяца назад +1

    your demos are really on point. thank you

  • @COSDR
    @COSDR Год назад +9

    So 20 years passed since the day I got a music technology magazine just to learn about Roland's new synth and to listen to the demos that really stunned me. I am a proud owner, I still use it for my productions and still love to play with it, programming it, combining samples with waveforms and its awesome filters, effects, and immersive controllers. It is still a great .......VST instrument in a hardware form😄Happy 20th Anniversary!!!!

  • @asynchronicity
    @asynchronicity Год назад +10

    Now THAT is a proper V-Synth video 💪

    • @magicalsynthadventure3216
      @magicalsynthadventure3216  Год назад +2

      A few years in the making, I guess 😂

    • @asynchronicity
      @asynchronicity Год назад +3

      @@magicalsynthadventure3216
      Better late than frozen into a "boing" with the x/y pad my Nan always used to say.

  • @kevinsturges6957
    @kevinsturges6957 7 месяцев назад +1

    I need this in the Roland Cloud! Thanks for the great review.

  • @bilonggrisimmeri
    @bilonggrisimmeri Год назад +6

    I've enjoyed your appearances in Sonic Talk, so had to watch this. You demo is absolute gold dust, and will re-awaken my use of V-Synth, especially FM. Thank you so much.

  • @doublebass5y
    @doublebass5y 11 месяцев назад +2

    Thanks Paulee. Fantastic video. This synth is amazing and you have done a top job of demonstrating some of its features. Thanks. Now just got to track one down . Maybe ROLAND will re visit it some day like the Boutiques.

  • @GrimVoxTech
    @GrimVoxTech 8 месяцев назад +1

    Awesome demo! I have not used my V-Synth XT for a while, this inspires me to do something about that. For sure I'll try out your patches, which are super. Thanks!

  • @marinerecords58corshagwen
    @marinerecords58corshagwen 11 месяцев назад +1

    One of the best rare video which dive into the V-synth features. Thanks!

  • @newignis
    @newignis 6 месяцев назад +1

    It did not only made it to my GAS list, but I’m picking one up next week ! 😊

    • @magicalsynthadventure3216
      @magicalsynthadventure3216  6 месяцев назад +2

      Wahey, congrats! DBeams all ‘round 😂

    • @newignis
      @newignis 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@magicalsynthadventure3216 played the XT until late last night on its own. Will need to combine it with my Fantom X DBeam to make your slogan work :-). But what an original sound synthesis, and ease of use. Really weird Roland did not pursue that line of innovation so much afterwards.

  • @calsynth
    @calsynth 6 месяцев назад +2

    I was on the fence about getting a V-Synth, but this has done it for me. Hard to pick a favourite patch, but Outlands if I had to. Thanks so much for this

  • @kemek3000
    @kemek3000 Год назад +9

    Of course, the presentation and sounds are incredible but I also appreciate how measured and calm your voice is. RUclips can be really over the top sometimes so it's a nice change.

    • @magicalsynthadventure3216
      @magicalsynthadventure3216  Год назад +1

      It’s all those years of running mindfulness meditation classes 😂. To be honest though I was concerned that I’m TOO calm/slow and that people would get bored 🤣

    • @stuartmaybe
      @stuartmaybe Год назад +2

      No worries, one of the joys of the tubes is that you can always speed up or slow things down, time stretch stylevvvvvvvvvvvvvvv

  • @jonathanmcgregor6297
    @jonathanmcgregor6297 Год назад +2

    Watched this twice already, so good.

  • @marcusholder495
    @marcusholder495 3 месяца назад +1

    Stay blessed 🙌 i love your video

  • @bramsegers2414
    @bramsegers2414 8 месяцев назад +1

    happy I still have one, very diverse

  • @calyx93
    @calyx93 8 месяцев назад +3

    Good vid - I've been a user of this lovely machine since its introduction to the market. So much fun just simply loading a sample and experimenting with the pitch, time and formant - incredibly useful sounds emerge. NOTHING like it - there's a reason Coil, cEvin, Key and Richard Barbieri loved it. Excellent programming on your part - very impressive.

  • @torbenanschau6641
    @torbenanschau6641 Год назад +2

    This actually might be the best hardware synth of the 2000s

  • @WilyEPeyote
    @WilyEPeyote Год назад +4

    Nice video and some lovely sounds. The V-Synth is one of those magical synths that can still excite me even after two decades of happy pottering about.

  • @hollodigidesign4518
    @hollodigidesign4518 Год назад +1

    Really cool demo of what the V-Synth can do! Thanks for uploading!!!

  • @donleino
    @donleino 6 месяцев назад +1

    i love the v synth so much i had to buy another one . currently fighting the urge to own a third hahah

  • @isingthebodyelectrick
    @isingthebodyelectrick Год назад +1

    Lovely stuff, Paulee. (And that Terry Gilliam-esque slide-in moment at 12:54...😃)

  • @_Jek
    @_Jek Год назад +1

    Love the first minute; great short music video! The riser at 0:01 is my favorite patch-part. Nice!

  • @levisj125
    @levisj125 Год назад +1

    Such a great overview of the synth and some amazing patches! I'm going to spend a week or two going over them, so I can learn a lot more about my synth! Thank you, Paulee!

    • @magicalsynthadventure3216
      @magicalsynthadventure3216  Год назад +1

      Thanks. It’s a fun exercise, I feel I learned a lot more just by doing the deep dive 😂

  • @christopherprice3226
    @christopherprice3226 Год назад +1

    Thanks for making this. Love my V synth many have come and gone but mine is still here. Enjoyed your presentation.

  • @edwin-zone
    @edwin-zone Год назад +2

    Always good to see this keyboard getting some love. the patches are lovely. I like Outlands a lot!

    • @magicalsynthadventure3216
      @magicalsynthadventure3216  Год назад +2

      Yeah I love that one too, it makes me think of “Wuthering Heights”, the book, randomly 😂 I think my fave is Tread Water tho.

  • @gerti303
    @gerti303 Год назад +1

    Lovely! Thanks for sharing the patches. Me an my XT will enjoy the sound.

  • @sunilsolanki
    @sunilsolanki Год назад +2

    What a fantastic video. I had absolutely no idea how powerful a sound design tool this synth is. Sounds incredible. Probably the last, imaginative and forward looking hardware synth Roland made. Your patches were really lovely as well. Pure T2 soundtrack vibes in places.
    The opening song was excellent as well!

    • @magicalsynthadventure3216
      @magicalsynthadventure3216  Год назад +2

      Thanks! It’s a hell of a deep synth, and every parameter page seems to have it’s own envelope 🤪. I am glad I got the chance to show off my sound design skills, maybe someone will employ me 😊

    • @bilonggrisimmeri
      @bilonggrisimmeri Год назад +1

      Well, maybe or maybe not. How about the JD-XA, my first analogue synth? Really beautiful.

    • @magicalsynthadventure3216
      @magicalsynthadventure3216  Год назад +2

      The XA is one I’d like to try 👌🏻

    • @bilonggrisimmeri
      @bilonggrisimmeri Год назад +1

      @@magicalsynthadventure3216 V-Synth Patch 20, "Juno BASS" is just plain wicked! How realistic it is to a real Juno, I've no idea? With V-Card, it can also do a Roland D-50 and a more complicated vocoder than any other one out there. Again, no idea how good a D-50 re-creation? You get extra waveforms, not in the original D-50 too. Secondhand prices are likely to go up, unfortunately. Let's hope they supply service parts like screens for many decades.

    • @magicalsynthadventure3216
      @magicalsynthadventure3216  Год назад +1

      I need to get a hold of the V-card to try it out!

  • @Strages_Powers
    @Strages_Powers Год назад +1

    Awesome creative tool Paulee and an awesome video!

  • @automaticgainsay
    @automaticgainsay Год назад +1

    Informative, well-delivered, entertaining... and your music is always absolutely luscious! I knew nothing about this keyboard, and I'm glad that now I do!
    Hearing the vari effect on the sample was awe-inspiring for me. That is SO cool.

    • @magicalsynthadventure3216
      @magicalsynthadventure3216  Год назад +1

      Thanks so much! Yeah it’s pretty cool, though it does have a very pronounced time stretchy flavour, I think the new granular algos in say, the Microfreak are less jarring, but I actually do like that very deliberate variphrase sound anyway, and if you add some sideband filtering it really makes it more subtle 😊

  • @christianvictor827
    @christianvictor827 Год назад +2

    I love it so much! The video and the V-Synth of course.

  • @kierenmoore3236
    @kierenmoore3236 Год назад +1

    Definitely of its time!! I like it!! 😎 Thanks! 🙏🏼

  • @Charnel89
    @Charnel89 Год назад +1

    I bought one in 2005 as a teen and I have no words for how awesome it was. I played keyboard in a rock band at the time and the V-synth was the perfect performance instrument with aftertouch, v-beam and the infamous TimeTrip pad. I still have it today and will probably keep it for the rest of my life

  • @gesslr
    @gesslr Год назад +1

    First of all, I really enjoy your contributions to SonicTalk! Second, this video is FANTASTIC. I’ve had a GT for about 10 years. It’s so easy to get distracted by all of the new stuff that is around us and ‘forget’ why you fell in love with an instrument. This video inspires me to go fall in love with VSynth again. Thank you! 😊
    Fantastic sounds too!

  • @mattbrown-mb
    @mattbrown-mb Год назад +2

    Thanks for sharing these lovely sounds 🙂

  • @badinibeats5939
    @badinibeats5939 Год назад +2

    i love the microwave beep sounds when you touch the screen lol

    • @magicalsynthadventure3216
      @magicalsynthadventure3216  Год назад +1

      Me too 😂, you can choose to switch them off, but I feel they add an old-school computer charm.

  • @freddiesamples
    @freddiesamples Год назад +1

    Absloutely magnifico programming. The use of the controllers on this synth are awesome. You actually will develop a unique style of playing. My go to synth. Great job on this.

  • @ElectronicazMusic
    @ElectronicazMusic Год назад

    Inspiring! I am sitting with my V Synth GT while watching this vid. Looking forward to trying your patches later. Thank you. 💥

    • @magicalsynthadventure3216
      @magicalsynthadventure3216  Год назад

      I know importing works, but I wonder if they’ll sound a little different in the GT?

    • @ElectronicazMusic
      @ElectronicazMusic Год назад

      Should sound identical. (should! 😁) I have to first convert your bank to a gt bank then each patch opens as one half of a Gt patch. The other half being an init patch. 😁 ♥ 🎶 🎹

    • @magicalsynthadventure3216
      @magicalsynthadventure3216  Год назад

      Very cool! 😊

  • @pfmmodule5144
    @pfmmodule5144 Год назад

    Thanks for the video. Starting to scratch the surface on the V-Synth since the Prophet X is back for repair (again).

  • @Screaming-Trees
    @Screaming-Trees 5 месяцев назад

    Such a cool sounding synth. Beautiful pads especially those saw driven ones. Which V-synth to buy though? They have several different versions from what I understand. Some of them even have a D50 engine onboard. Great overview and demo :).

    • @magicalsynthadventure3216
      @magicalsynthadventure3216  5 месяцев назад

      Hi :) - the original Vsynth keyboard can add the D50 engine with a hard to find PC Card, and that’s the model I demo here. I don’t have the card but I sampled the raw PCMs of the D50 and imported them, to get half way haha.
      The rack, Vsynth XT has the D50 built in, but loses some controllers obv. Finally, the GT has double the power, and can layer more tones, but cannot add the D50 engine in any way. Of course, with the doubled power, those raw D50 PCMs could be combined with 2VA oscillators and a complete 4osc D50 could be mimicked anyway! Though you’d need to build the patches yourself!

    • @Screaming-Trees
      @Screaming-Trees 5 месяцев назад

      @@magicalsynthadventure3216 Let me just say it one more time for emphasis. Really great job on the demo and overview. Those patches sound fucking awesome. Really great job, again thanks. And informative.
      Thanks for the clarification. Much appreciated. I think I'm sold on the one you got here in the video. They seem to be the most plentiful and cheapest anyway. I also like the idea of getting a genuine Roland Supersaw oscillator. I know a lot of software has kind of reverse engineered this already (And hardware) but that's the the OG and would be cool to have just for that. Without having to buy the JP8000 I mean. Which I guess is another classic so wouldn't be the end of the world having to buy that as well but it's nice that it's offered here as well. Nice complement. Again, thanks and keep up the great work.

  • @Johnmb23
    @Johnmb23 11 месяцев назад

    Great video! Just hooked my V up the other day. I’d love to see a video explaining how to use the Vsynth’s 16 parts with MIDI. Explain how to send separate MIDI channels to each part and if it’s possible to change parameters like filter cut offs to each part. I’ve asked Group and no one seems to have any clue. I figured out how to get a few parts to play by sending different mini channels to it but other than that the rest is a mystery to me.

  • @coyotesynth
    @coyotesynth Год назад

    Your sounds are great, really. Congrats.

  • @donovanrebbechi3334
    @donovanrebbechi3334 Год назад

    Fun video. I recently bought this thing and am having a lot of fun just playing the presets but this video makes me really want to dive into the sound design functionality

  • @JanavarKan83
    @JanavarKan83 10 месяцев назад +1

    I just have to give you props on naming a patch EBOWLAVIRUS 😂

  • @supercompooper
    @supercompooper Год назад +3

    oMG the young Jordan Rudess is so adorable 😊

  • @SSBBMario301
    @SSBBMario301 Год назад +3

    24:57 wow…..

  • @doctorsynth1
    @doctorsynth1 Год назад

    Thank you for lovingly reviewing one of my favorite "modern" synthesizers. It's not trying to be "virtual analog", although it can still make traditional analog synth sounds. It's so much more, with the time trip pad, sampling, variphrase, and the COSM effects modeling.

  • @GRIFFARTCENTER
    @GRIFFARTCENTER Год назад

    I would just like to hear your voice, it's so relaxing, with some smooth playing here and then :)

  • @gunark
    @gunark Год назад

    Just got one of these oddboxes (well, an XT), lots to figure out. Firstly why it won't book with a CF card in it (boots fine without). Also, can you clear the internal memory completely, like when you hold EXIT on boot, but without doing that? So I can start from a clean slate with my own samples.

  • @shadynook86
    @shadynook86 Год назад +2

    Got the pleasure of seeing cEvin Key use one while I was on the rail for a Skinny Puppy show a few months ago⚡

    • @magicalsynthadventure3216
      @magicalsynthadventure3216  Год назад +2

      I saw an image on GS (I think)! So cool that this synth is still being used as a live tool. Richard Barbieri still uses one too.

    • @shadynook86
      @shadynook86 Год назад +1

      Very cool track you made also! 🌫️ 🌪️👍🏾

    • @magicalsynthadventure3216
      @magicalsynthadventure3216  Год назад +2

      Thanks! It was literally one patch with 3 small additions, drums, bass and a bell sound 😊

  • @Soul4sale1001
    @Soul4sale1001 Год назад

    Awesome!

  • @DivKid
    @DivKid Год назад +1

    Happy to be a source of sample material, nice to hear from the V Synth too. While the varispeed was nice I did like the scattered looping of different pitches of 'how can I get through this fog'.

  • @smartti1970
    @smartti1970 Год назад

    Fantastic sounds, first time i start to understand a bit the capabilities of this synth's engin and that i understand why it is praised .... well of course there is lot of creativity from the artist .... lovely ....

  • @morespaces9061
    @morespaces9061 6 месяцев назад +1

    Love my XT, but i should take it out of the box ;-) Back then i wanted to buy the GT because of its expanded power, but when i played it at Messe back then i found that it had not the exactly the sound of my XT.Anyone compared the two soundwise? Opinions?

  • @vhshead
    @vhshead 9 месяцев назад

    Great synth, even though i only use mine for processing video samples these days. You get bonus points for the Star Fleet VHS

  • @motoboy6666
    @motoboy6666 11 месяцев назад

    Thanks for this, was a unreachable synth at the time. Is the tweaking mostly done on the screen? Thought maybe the buttons and knobs were the main thing with the screen as a substitute, but maybe its the other way around.

    • @magicalsynthadventure3216
      @magicalsynthadventure3216  11 месяцев назад

      It’s odd, I just never use the knobs! I completely forget they’re there.

    • @motoboy6666
      @motoboy6666 10 месяцев назад

      @@magicalsynthadventure3216 kk 😁

  • @rogerzinn8898
    @rogerzinn8898 Год назад

    Wow thanks!!

  • @jeffevansmusic
    @jeffevansmusic Год назад

    I have had one for quite a long time and love it. It is very unique and Roland have not really made a synth like this since. One thing to note is people are making new patch banks for some very old synths right now and for this one as well. Particular Sound in Germany have got a great bank of VSynth patches. Amazing pads and very complex textures abound. Although I feel its a digital synth and it has a digital sound a lot of the time it still can surprise as to how warm and analog it can also sound.

  • @NickHowesAstro
    @NickHowesAstro Год назад +3

    Nick Rhodes and Martyn Ware's use of this is exemplary. The ability to imitate many of their classic sounds from days of Yore is one of the key selling points. I got a varios (for peanuts as it has zero modern software support) and run that in an XP VM, and it's fabulous. The JP8 is not even close to the one on the System-8, but still has a nice character of its own and lends itself to some nice programming ideas. I only wish Roland would open up the API/interface to third party developers as they dropped it like a ton of bricks..
    Nice video, some really nice touches in the presentation too

  • @Noname7401
    @Noname7401 Год назад

    Keep it up.

  • @rattlededge-somemikeratled1630

    ben sitting on your lap at sonictalk ... big wide eyed looks at your studio ... i'd hazard ben mighta been having a think ...
    "wow....one day all these sythns will be mine !!!.." best to you and yours.

  • @gunark
    @gunark Год назад +1

    That Usbourne book is great, I still think of filters with little robots in them.

    • @magicalsynthadventure3216
      @magicalsynthadventure3216  Год назад +4

      I love the Usborne books! My favourite wasn’t from this book, but was an image of a robot crashing through a wall because it had been told to travel to a shop, in the shortest distance possible 😂

  • @enricopallazzoofficial
    @enricopallazzoofficial Год назад +1

    Great job Paulee... The V-Synth is a synth that always catched my interest but i don't know why i never pulled the trigger on it.
    It's great to see a Renaissance and recognision of the value of Digital synths. We "needed" analogue after decades of digital and it was cool BUT the moment you realise that an analogue synth is an analogue synth and they are all "similar" (i'm deliberately exaggerating) you start to look for something else and that "else" is digital.
    Long live digital synths

    • @magicalsynthadventure3216
      @magicalsynthadventure3216  Год назад +1

      You know, on one hand I have a about 6 Analogues & a few Eurorack modules. On the other hand, I have 30-40 Digital synths and hybrids! I just love the variety ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Also thanks!

  • @budgetkeyboardist
    @budgetkeyboardist Год назад

    Yep, I wanted one of these and didn't get one. It was a very cool keyboard - still is.

  • @KidMrRemixes
    @KidMrRemixes Месяц назад

    0:49 tune!

  • @KidMrRemixes
    @KidMrRemixes Месяц назад

    I used to love Star Fleet on a Saturday morning.

    • @magicalsynthadventure3216
      @magicalsynthadventure3216  Месяц назад

      You’re a xennial then? 😂

    • @KidMrRemixes
      @KidMrRemixes Месяц назад

      It seems that way. I’ll admit I just had to look up that term. I thought it was a reference to the Star Fleet fan base.

    • @magicalsynthadventure3216
      @magicalsynthadventure3216  Месяц назад

      I guess the X bomber thing made sense ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • @GertBoers
    @GertBoers Год назад +2

    1:22 Jordan Rudess? 😯

    • @magicalsynthadventure3216
      @magicalsynthadventure3216  Год назад +3

      The very same 😊

    • @donkeevney
      @donkeevney Год назад +2

      Dream Theatre

    • @GertBoers
      @GertBoers Год назад +5

      @@donkeevney I know who Jordan is, but have you seen him in this video? I've never seen him with hair on his head!

    • @GertBoers
      @GertBoers Год назад +2

      Actually, thinking about it, that's not entirely true... During Covid he has a video (or some?) where he hadn't shaved himself.

    • @magicalsynthadventure3216
      @magicalsynthadventure3216  Год назад +2

      It’s the Kurzweil K2500 video 😊

  • @magicalsynthadventure3216
    @magicalsynthadventure3216  Год назад +1

    The full CASIO “Play Today!” video is available for your viewing pleasure here: ruclips.net/video/DbKZREfJyZY/видео.html

  • @BullyMaguire4ever
    @BullyMaguire4ever Год назад

    Voiceover on quaaludes.

  • @VacancyOfDisco
    @VacancyOfDisco Год назад

    thank you for making this video! i only had a vsynth very briefly before i had to sell it for stupid life stuff. back then they were still a bit under $1k. I would love to get another but the prices keep climbing :/ Roland really needs to revisit Variphrase! or at the very least make the source code public so other people can build upon it. There really isnt anything like it!

    • @magicalsynthadventure3216
      @magicalsynthadventure3216  Год назад +1

      It has a definite sound to it, and one that I feel is still relevant today for weird effect sounds 😊

  • @jm6734
    @jm6734 Год назад

    Your musical and programming talent needs absolutely no «As seen on TV» Hainbach sticker. Looks like you’re about to join that infamous influencers forum.. cringe ;-)
    I’ve already ordered your yet to be released masochist programming digital synths sound library. Keep it crunchy!

  • @jonathanmcgregor6297
    @jonathanmcgregor6297 Год назад +1

    Watched this twice already, so good.

  • @jonathanmcgregor6297
    @jonathanmcgregor6297 Год назад

    Watched this twice already, so good.