Originally posted by Diki:
G70 Variation Selection
...... I find the selection of the right fill and variation while you are playing to be MUCH, MUCH harder than my G1000.
While you are putting on a show, the less you have to think about, the better.. concentrate on singing and being creative/entertaining, whatever you have to, but worrying about hitting the right button at the right time, where a small mistake leads to audio hell, is counter productive.
First things first........ Most good players use BOTH their hands ALL THE TIME!!! Having to stop playing to trigger a variation is tough at best, and many times impossible....
...... here's where things have gone wrong with the G70 - To be honest, although there are more fills on the G70, there really aren't any more Variations (Basic and Advanced, Original and Variation) than the G1000. The good thing is if you are into pressing front panel buttons, it is much easier to go from, say, Original Basic to Advanced Variation. BUT........... because you have more different fill-ins, the G70 has lost the ability to cycle up AND down hands free.
......I know you can select each individual variation with four of the switches, but that honestly is too much to deal with live, especially when other nasty things like STOP or ENDING lurk nearby for careless feet!).
.....you may think I am too picky, but years of gigging have proved the value of simplicity. If you CAN hit the wrong button, sooner or later you will!
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, Roland - implement this for us, we will love you forever!
Diki - you are so VERY right. This is one of the aspects of the G-70 (and my current VA-76) that bothers me most.
It is all very well having an instrument that has great sounds & styles (and by that I don't necessarily mean either of these Rolands) and loads of features, but all of this is wasted if you cannot get the damn thing to cooperate with you!
For the life of me, I cannot understand why Roland didn't just stick 4 variation buttons & 6 fill buttons on the G-70's front panel, then allow you to assign the behaviour of the fill buttons for each user registration. You could then pre-determine what happens when you hit (say) Fill 2. It could return to the original variation, go up one, down one, jump to variation 4 or whatever you chose.
Korg did this dead right with the old i-series (i-3 etc) well over 10 years ago, and I've yet to find a better system on any maker's arranger.
Nothing worse that having to fight the thing on stage!
[This message has been edited by MikeTV (edited 07-20-2005).]
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