15 Mar
2017
15 Mar
'17
9:59 p.m.
I know people in the the film industry that have kept their Roland's and Emu's
as long a they could before the software synths took over. But then we got smacked by the
Tascam pull out of GigaStudio. I still planning on keeping my 2, 760'sfor as long
as I need a RTOS sampler. BTW, RTOS is all the rage now in all forms of embedded real
time systems in all frields.
Randy
From: Ralph Detko <ralphdetko(a)gmail.com>
To: Jesse Segovia <jsegovia(a)mindspring.com>
Cc: sgroup(a)sgroup.ca
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: [sgroup] Excellent Roland S-760 Sounds
The first sampler I ever owned was an S220. I still have it with a whole
pile of Quick Disks which I got a few years back. I've had the drive
repaired once and it is working fine. I like it and it's the only one I
keep.
I used to have a couple of 760's and a 330. They were great sounding boxes
but I let them go a few years ago. I had one of those awful Syquest drives
which died, and then the samplers wouldn't read my hard-made patches on
floppies, and I had an old Apple CDROM which they stopped seeing, so not
being a patient tech-head, I just gave up on them after I moved into
using Cubase and Macintosh computers. I guess I got a good 3 years out of
them. They sat in storage for almost 10 years before I basically gave them
away.
I had a few of the Roland sample disks and I kept those, as I use Halion
(software sampler by Steinberg) which reads the sample CDs and loads
from them, but alas does not build the patches the same as the Roland
samplers did, so some tweaking is required. The Roland disk samples sound
great, however I found with Halion I can easily and quickly make my own
samples that were pretty darn good. I had a Fender Rhodes which I sampled
just before I sold it, and I can't tell the difference when I listen to
stuff I recorded around the same time between the real thing or the sampled
version.
I at one point had an Akai S612, which I enjoyed a lot, but did not have
the Quick Disk drive for it so could never save any patches, so I
eventually sold that too.
Have a 3-year old now, so not much time for sampling...
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 12:47 PM, Jesse Segovia <jsegovia(a)mindspring.com>
wrote:
How many Roland sampler users are still on this
group? For those who may
not know me I'm Jesse Segovia and I play lead guitar and sing in a classic
rock band, and I write and record my own stuff in my home studio. I own
both a Roland S-760 and S-550. My Main DAW is Cakewalk Sonar. I have one
of those Focusrite Saffire audio/MIDI interfaces.
To tell you where I am with my Roland samplers, I bought a Yamaha MOXF8
synth a few years ago. It has most of the library of the Motif and it's
expandable - you can load samples in the correct format into its internal
memory. It sounds very good but I just found out how much I still need my
Roland samplers and sample library. The MOXF8 has a Yamaha CP-80 patch
that
I through was pretty good but last week I was going through some of my
Roland sample library sounds. I loaded up one of the CP-70 patches from
the
Roland Keyboards of the 60's and 70's and wow, there was no comparison.
The
Roland patch completely blew away the Yamaha keyboard sound. It wasn't
even
close. If I recorded a song with the Yamaha electric grand sound I would
be
very disappointed to later on find out how good the Roland sample was.
I guess some of us have gone to software samplers but for me, at least for
now, I'm sticking with my Roland samplers and I'm very happy to do that.
Jesse
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