Originally posted by squeak_D:
Since when has it been some newly discovered secret that Roland coddled the hip hop market? Shoot.., that's not (new) news for Roland or ANY other major workstation maker. Synth workstations have ALWAYS been geared more toward electronica. A lot of that has started to change over the last few years though.
Not too long ago it wasn't uncommon to hear that arranger keyboards had better acoustic voices (they simply did have better acoustic voices). The synth makers over the years got smart and started moving some of those higher end acoustic voices from their arranger line to their pro workstation models. The ENTIRE Yamaha Motif line is proof enough of how they've done this. SA voices were a "trickle up" for the Motif XS (many including myself still feel the SA voices were better on the Tyros 2 than they were on the Motif XS though).
The problem is this..., the keyboard makers got smart and realized the need for good acoustic instruments in their pro workstations but made damn sure they still produced synths that do what the do best and that's MODERN MUSIC. Problem is we don't have this TRICKLE DOWN effect in the pro arranger line. The synths are kicking ass at acoustic and more traditional styles of music now.., but the pro arrangers still suck donkey butt for ANYTHING modern.
And Thats why my "discovery" of Arranger keyboards just two years ago became an Epiphany. I had tons of modules in search of the Holy Grail....GOOD non synthy sounding acoustic sounds. I bought the Proteus One for three sounds, the Roland U220 for two, The QSR for a few, the Proteus 2000 for a few more, The Triton was a God Send, Then I heard a PSR3000. A PSR s900, the Korg PA2x (bought it) A Tyros 3 (Sold Korg bought Tyros) Sold everything else...
Never jumped into the VSTi market with both feet because I always built PCs in the sweet spot pricing area which were taxed by too many software synths and samplers.
Now I have for my needs, the best of all worlds, a Great (low resource hog) Drum VSTI in the ToonTrack Product, A Great VSTi Sampler in the Dimension Pro, A great Style Generator in the T3 and a ton of great some great real instrument voices........No excuses. We will see what Roland's Sonic Cell brings to the Mix if anything. No need for the B4 VSTi. Tyros is fine. For those pesky Synth only sounds Cakewalk comes with a whole host of pure wave based synth plug ins with all kinds of knobs and dials and a Beatscape program to make loops if thats the flava of the day.
[This message has been edited by Kingfrog (edited 02-06-2009).]
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