As you all know I have been working with a G1000 and a DisCover5 for over a year..I just did a quick recording of my favorite sound[I won't buy a keyboard without it]...Don't pay attention to my sloppy fingering in the beginning, I was trying to set up a sound while playing...Just like I would have done live on the job...
http://download.yousendit.com/14E800CB1AD4D607

Nice shirt! I'd have a Roland Bed Comforter if I could, but the wife wouldn't take to that.

Nice demo Fran.

Squeak

Hi Fran,

I have a friend nearby who uses a Solton X4. It has a sound just like that. In fact they probably sampled it from Roland.

Roland always got certain things right. The vocal samples were always well done. Anyone remember the Roland W-30?

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Chris I remember the 8 bit 61 key sample keyboard...just prior to the S50

I worked as the keyboard mgr.(whatever that means) for a large indy music store(10,000 sq ft.) when the W-30 first came out. Leya's song demo was and still is the best vocal and acoustic guitar sample demo I've heard on a keyboard.

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Chris post that Demo for us if you can!

Yeah I like that sound. I also have that on my Genesys. It has three voices in one.

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Thx, Fran but I wanted to hear El Condor Pasa. All kidding aside, I quite enjoyed it.

Mighty fine
thanks for sharing,
Beobp

Fran do you still have the Mediastation??

hows that going?

Nice work! Loaded onto my iPod as well.

My favourite jam

I think I had this sound first...

Sweetwater got Take 5 to do a whole sample disk of these types of sounds for the Kurzweil 2500 and K2000 over ten years ago (or more!). The programming had some of the K's top programmers (I think Daniel Fisher was involved - a K genius) and they were able to do some incredible tricks with the K's extensive voice control.

The only problem with it was that it was TOO recognizable! You had to be careful to not expose the voices too much, or it was 'Oh, you got Take 5 to play on your CD?! So I learned to not expose them quite as much as the 'Summertime' example. For me, it's just a little too gimmicky by itself, but if you layer it with a jazz guitar or piano, or put it up behind some brass, it can add a nice semi-randomly changing timbre to the sound, and give it some extra dimension.

I'll often use it 'scatting' over the top of it myself (plus the layer) to avoid the 'machine' aspects of it. Give that a try, Fran, it's a lot of fun!