Hi All
Just got the latest Organ & Keyboard Cavalcade magazine, and in the News section it has been confirmed that Roland will be showing the New G 70 v2 keyboard at the Caister Organ & Keyboard Festival UK.
The follow up to its best selling G-70 keyboard, and which is set to get its UK Premier on Sunday 2nd October at Keyboard Cavalcades Caister festival UK.
Boasting new features, new music styles and Music Assistant registrations, and a new SR-GO1 expansion board dedicated to the G-70, Roland claims, “the G-70 v2 Music Workstation once again sets a new standard”!

Bill


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The SRG-01 expansion will have audio loops and 30 new styles that take advantage of the loops themselves (OS 2.0 allows the G-70 to play audio loops in sync with the styles, a la Ketron SD1 and Korg PA1 X pro )
The expansion board will also have new sounds, drawn from the Roland library, and new drum sets.
I think (hope) that Roland is finally correcting the mistakes initially done with the first release of the G-70 and coming out with an arranger keyboard worth considering.

Can you explain to me what Auido Loops are in context of an arranger workstation and live performance? Are these like acidized audio clips that can be sync'd with a style while playing?

Thanks, Russ

Sort of... the beauty of an audio loop is that it adds a lot to the realism of a performance; just think of a jazz ballad style with a sampled loop of a brush pattern, or a latin style with a sampled loop of percussions (congas, cumbias or timbales, a la Santana).
The main reason why the Ketron SD1 is so popular is that it has a second rhytm track, made entirely of loops; this adds a lot to the realism of a style and it's also the reason why converted Ketron styles (that of course lack this second rhytm track, which is impossible to convert) sound so disappointing, played on other arrangers.

Professionally recorded (by pro musicians) Audio Loops RULE !

I would love to be able integrate the brush drum loops from the following award winning disc with my exisiting arranger kb jazz styles:
Brush Artistry Drum Loops

Scott

Hi,



you actually can using the Korg Pa1X "time slice" feature.

Cheers.

I am curious to see the way Roland will implement this feature in the forthcoming OS 2.0 for the G-70: will it allow to import audio loops via USB? Where are you going to store them, since there is no hard disk? A USB drive maybe? And how long will it take to load a loop before you can start the style it is synced with?