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#455160 - 07/23/18 02:51 PM
Re: What Features in a New Roland Arranger?
[Re: W Tracy Parnell]
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Registered: 04/28/06
Posts: 810
Loc: North Texas, USA
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I would add a couple of things... Option to have Bass Inversion ("on bass") via the footswitch as a MOMENTARY function. Press and hold the footswitch, bass line follows the lowest note played. Release the footswitch, now you can play chords any inversion and bass follows the root of the chord. If I choose to turn Bass Inversion on in the middle of a song, I don't want to press the pedal a 2nd time to turn it off. It should be momentary! Chord Sequencer: YES!! And finally... Roland's style control parameters are very sparse compared to the competition. Look at manuals for Yamaha and Korg. Search for terms like NTR, NTT, Close, Parallel, Retrigger, Repitch, Tension, etc. Nothing like this on a Roland! Some Roland styles sound very good. IF these parameters exist within the styles, they are hidden from the style creation workflow. Roland should make these details visible and give more control to the user! My $.02
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#455198 - 07/25/18 09:42 AM
Re: What Features in a New Roland Arranger?
[Re: Uncle Dave]
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Registered: 03/02/06
Posts: 7143
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Roland has everything in their home to make a perfect arranger...
- the keybed of the RD2000 with aftertouch - the sound engine of the jupier 80 (10 sounds assignable to keyboard) - all the sounds (pcm and super natural) of the integra 7 - an option to load acb sounds into slots.. - an upgrade to their ea7 arranger style engine.. maybe even somthing like ketron’s launchpad .. - nice big color touchscreen, or two normal size color touch screens.(i love 2 touchscreens with 9 sliders/knobs/buttons in the middle as in the ea7) - sliders, knobs and pads - full masterkeyboard functions - audio over USB. - organ sounds from the attelier range - V-piano sounds from the rd2000
I think Roland could blow everyone away, if they wanted to.. If done right they can cater to both the professional workstation market as the pro arranger market with a single instrument Nice dream, but this describes a $10,000+ instrument that's not portable, and weighs a ton. No, all of this can be done with a single high end ARM or stream processor (think ipad pro territory) and a high speed SSD drive with enough memmory.. its just a matter of adding all those readilly available software parts into a single OS, but no extra weight compared to an FA08 or Jupiter 80.. the weight mostly depends on the keybed... yes an 88 key is more expensive, i think the RD2000 weights like 20kg, which would then also go for this instrument. Thats acceptable for a high end 88 key stage instrument. Since Roland tends to be cheaper then Yamaha i think it could be done for a price comparable to the Genos ...
Edited by Bachus (07/25/18 09:42 AM)
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