Registered: 01/02/00
Posts: 3781
Loc: San Jose, California
HI all, I don't see much action on this forum anymore so maybe we can get some started here. I just recorded this original song I wrote on the Roland E 80 live with Cakewalk Pro Audio 9. How about some of you people putting up some of your Roland songs here. I don't qualify to post in the General Arrange forum because I don't know either of the two mandatory songs they require and my eyes don't read very well anymore at my age. Here is my song: http://www.box.net/shared/to6gxphxbk Hope you enjoy it. I dedicate it too all the Roland Owners, Bebop Bill
Registered: 01/02/00
Posts: 3781
Loc: San Jose, California
HI FRAN, I played horns in several big bands when I was young. We got 10.00 a night side man scale if we belonged to the union and 12.00 if we doubled on two instruments. Everything was arranged and you had to read the music. Solos were a measure with a diagnol slash threw them and a number, meaning you had that number of bars to blow after the turn around. I do love big band music and still play a lot of it on my keyboards. Roland has some good styles for BB. Best to ya,
Registered: 01/02/00
Posts: 3781
Loc: San Jose, California
thanks Tony and Eddie, I do still play a gig now and then in a RV park we might happen to be parked in for a period of time. we usually stay in a park for a week or more at a time and the word gets around that I am there and will play for their RV club dinner, dance, singalong, or whatever. I always enjoy it and often will just play for a spontanious street dance on the street I am parked on in the RV park. Sometimes we will have everybody in the park there including managers so no problems with complaints. It is fun. Bill
Registered: 10/15/05
Posts: 1433
Loc: Niceville, FL USA
Bebop - great work! Wow.... I hadn't heard the E-80 and it sounds great! You did a terrific job on the song and the performing. You are a very good keyboard man! Keep up the great work and thanks for sharing your composition and your talent.
Randy
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Registered: 01/02/00
Posts: 3781
Loc: San Jose, California
Thank you Randy, that is a real encouragement coming from you who I consider to be one of my peers. I really enjoy your sax work. I haven't played reeds in a long time but enjoy playing them on THIS particular keyboard. Best regards, Bebop
Registered: 01/02/00
Posts: 3781
Loc: San Jose, California
THANks everybody for posting here. However it didn't seem to get this forum going again. I don't see any Roland people posting here or putting up songs or even interested so NIGEL, I have tried three times to get this forum going and it is a waste of time and bandwidth so why don't you just junk it. BEBOP
Registered: 12/02/99
Posts: 924
Loc: Johnson City, TN USA
Hey Bill,
I just ordered a Roland AT-350C. It will be my first Roland keyboard. Your background with both Technics and Roland may be a great help for me in understanding the Roland OS. I have played Technics organs and keyboards for longer than I care to remember. So, I'm sure there will be a steep learning curve to move to the Roland.
I will be trying early to create and modify styles for my new toy. I saw no editing capability in the owners manual. So, I assume the styles are midi format that could be edited at the PC?
I really liked the horns on your song. Nice piece.
Registered: 01/02/00
Posts: 3781
Loc: San Jose, California
Hi Bob, I wasn't familiar with that keyboard so i went and took a look at a demo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGHYkltrHkI and that got me interested. I then went and read up on it and wowowow that is something in a portable. Actually an Atelier or however you spell it. I see you can buy the foot keyboard separately. It is impressive. I am sure you will really enjoy it. Bebop
Registered: 12/02/99
Posts: 924
Loc: Johnson City, TN USA
The AT350C will be here on Thursday. I ordered the 20 key PK-7A foot pedals. Will be looking for styles. I understand it can use any of the older Roland arranger styles. Where is a good place to look for styles?
Registered: 01/02/00
Posts: 3781
Loc: San Jose, California
that is great. I was just looking through my hard drive and I have a ton of them there. I have one group from somewhere that are all G70 and E80. I have a G 80. it sez there are 10,000 styles in 28 groups. I can send them to you one group at a time. Each sub group has about 150 styles and looks to be about 7 or 8 MB. Do you want me to email them to you one at a time. I need your email addy. Bill
Registered: 01/02/00
Posts: 3781
Loc: San Jose, California
Bob, I just sent you 2 big files using You Send It. it is 28 folders of roland Styles supposed to total 10,000 styles for the E 80 and G 70. I had to split it into two compressed files of 14 folders each. I am not sure the first file went out but I know the second one did. Let me know if you received them both or only the first 14 or the 14 to 28 group. Have a ball, Bebop
Registered: 01/02/00
Posts: 3781
Loc: San Jose, California
Bob, I just resent the first file that has 14 folders in it that you did not receive. Let me know if you get this on ok. It looks like it one out with out problem, Bebop