Bad Gear - Roland A-01 - Most Useless Piece of Gear??? 

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It can be assumed that this was the exact idea behind the A-01

That's exactly the same vibe I get when I look at it! 🤣🤣🤣

100% accurate

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I’m going to start using that 🤣

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Copy that!!!

Check mate!!!

Roland ticks and ticks everyone’s boxes but it is uncool to publicly acknowledge it.

In our post-apocalyptic future, Roland Corp is the widget division of Skynet.

The floor-safe keypad has no sex appeal. Mount that in a wall to confuse burglars. This may be the first badgear that I just don't imagine myself using . Not to pass judgement on its performance or functionality. But this audio tool fits a niche that I just don't have . Still a great show , and the highlight of my RU-vid fun hour . Much respect !

@@kenfusion oh, please, as if owning a synth that looks like an odd pice of furniture or thrown out from a poorly funded nuclear lab was not precisely the not-so-secret desire that makes us keep watching this channel’s videos.

INNOVATION!!!

I am totally getting that vibe from it. Honestly it does it pretty well. If they were still cheap I would entertain getting one for chippy sonics

It's crazy how much the interface looks exactly like my Sammich Sidbox, only with way less options for shaping the sound. Jesus, the Sidbox can even do polyphony and it runs on technology from 1981. What the hell? Doesn't have that Bluetooth, though. Gotta have that Bluetooth.

I saw this comment before watching the video and, wow, you weren't joking; it really does sound like my C64.

Honestly surprised the SIDStation hasn't made it on Bad Gear.

You are a connaisseur;)

It's called corporate culture ;)

My thoughts exactly!!! 🤣🤣🤣

It was made by their chief designer as a retiral project. It's actually very good and more powerful than you think

@@t55a2 This channel and all the *bad gear* reviews are just a bit of good-natured fun. Also, these are people's personal opinions, delivered with a dash of dry humour - regardless of whether we agree with them or not. Let's all not take ourselves too seriously! 🙏

@@t55a2 - I'll admit I looked on hoping to see this unit get ripped on but as the review went on I thought 'Yeah, that's usable, shallow menus, pretty usable mono-synth' and I actually started to like it and presume it was mocked as it was marketed to people with £$€5000 worth of gear yet barely 1% of ideas to match. It's highly usable unit that should've been pushed towards micro producers who cut their teeth on soft synths and use smartphones or tablets to jam with. As previous noted in a reply, we all know what this channel is about - good natured laughs and looking at stuff and wondering if we agree with the assessment of the unit in question and I actually liked it whereas someone with 10 racks of gear would flick a few switches a rack, compressor, on delay on and bellow *'SHIT!!!!'* into a microphone and roll with their mono-bit thinking of 'It didn't cost 25k so it's shit!'

I think someone over at Roland lost a bet or something ;)

@@AudioPilz Almost. The story goes that the synth-engine was one of the Roland engineers private projects. Its goal was to implement a synth engine on a tiny 8bit arduino-ish platform with a minimal code footprint. The A-01 was sth. of a retirement gift to said engineer. I read this on a forum, so take it with a grain of salt, however parts of this storyt are mentioned on the Roland page, too AFAIK.

I thought this was one of the more charming bad gear products

That's from an official Roland brochure. I'd love to hear what Mr. Peterson would have come up with using a 303

@@AudioPilz I think the Behringer 303 clones can be polychained, so it wouldn't be out of the question to play a transcription of one of his pieces on a bank of 303s. Btw did he ever actually release a synth piece, or was it purely his hobby?

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That picture is legendary, how have tou not seen it yet!?

Thanks! Hi mom ;)

You just know there's some poor teenager out there that got given this as a birthday gift after they showed their mom a picture of the SH-01a :)

Thanks, lol;)

That definitely made me chuckle out loud

MODULATE THE CUTOFF, CIVVIE

Thanks! SAVE CIVVIE!!!

I had to rewind to make sure my eyes didn't deceive me. I'll never think of control voltage the same way again...

#freecivvie

"...it's crap" ;)

Those Boutiques series have a recessed lower front cabinet, grooves for hinges, and a connector on the bottom just to accommodate (or to be accommodated by) the K-25. The existence of K-25 has had so much influence on the concept, yet the keys are so...umm...damn useless? (trying to choose the right word)

@@midimoog useless yet critically important for utilizing the sequencers on most of the units. They're not really for playing so much as "loading notes" in the sequences

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm afraid it would kill the magic a bit ;)

It's a very specific piece of gear but it certainly does a great job when it fits into a setup

You're probably right about this!

AFAIK he designed the JX3P

@@AudioPilz Yep, that's it. I couldn't remember which.

@@AudioPilz No wonder the synth part of it turned out surprisingly well, then

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Yeah, they messed it up in the marketing

Cheers!!!

As long as we're still dancing 💪

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Thanks for watching!

Shameless plug: full tracks and extended jams can be found on Patreon;)

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Thanks!!!

Yeah me too and it's becoming increasingly difficult to catch them on time...

Indeed. But I use a mobile phone, which makes it a bit trickier. 😄

Me too!!! *I thought it was just me...* Whomever writes the scripts for your videos deserves a pay rise! 🤣🤣🤣

@@d_vibe-swe You sir, are to be commended on the dedication and skill you bring to the craft of catching those pesky memes! For the sake of humanity, please, please continue your pursuits. But remember, with great power comes great responsibility 🤣🤣🤣 🙏🙏🙏

@@FantasticF113 I'm very dedicated. Thank you, sir. 😁

I would love it to be even a little more dirty ;)

Cool! I would like it to be even a little dirtier ;)

@@AudioPilz Add Distortion to it, and the A-01 will get really Bad ass

I have it too and i love it. I use the synth a lot and not even the bass lines are good. With some nice delay and reverb there are a lot good melodies in higher octaves possible

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Yeah, one of the 1999 synthedit Freeware ones;)

Just turn off random phasing on serum and boom

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I actually drink from it ;)

@@AudioPilz Wait, that's not green screen?

@@AudioPilz Do change the water sometimes though!

Thanks! It's a very specific piece of gear ;)

It's my superpower ;)

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Agreed, great educational tool!

@@AudioPilz 🤣

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No MIDI clock!? That's bizarre considering this thing is primarily a MIDI controller

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Thanks! We have reached peak Roland;)

I agree, and I enjoyed the EDM piece too.

I second that !

Thank you!!! Stick around!

Absolutely, prices are insane

it is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma

@@AudioPilz Lol, worded perfectly, bro

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SPOTIFY PLAYLIST!!!

It's probably the best concept of all Boutiques

Agreed, it's one of his strengths!

Never underestimate a proper sun chair;)

LoL

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Big Civvie fan here!

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Filter chirp ;)

Better safe than sorry;)

"Someone at Roland lost a bet" Gear

Thanks Roland ;)

I don't have numbers to back this up but I assume it tanked like a zeppelin

Roland keeping up with the tradition of the X0X! lol

I had the exact same association ;)

Thanks! TBH, watching people programming a sequencer isn't sooooo exciting (and I'm not super fast on it;)

I heard that story too!

Thanks!

Synth memes should be considered cultural heritage!!!

@@AudioPilz haha! Because we're so "cultured" there

@@EarmonkeyMusic *puts down KY and Volca* What were you saying?

It completely blew my mind!

Hey Chris! Yeah, it's a great little timewaster ;)

That's an achievement!

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That is completely natural and normal

Where can I get tickets?

@@theyellowroom5026 It's in the spirit of those events that everyone is welcome to join as long as they can find the location. ;P Unless you are talking about the other kind of ticket, I'm sure the shady dude with the basecap in the corner got you covered there.

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Roland acts in mysterious ways;)

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Great idea, the death threats from the Digitakt episode are currently ceasing ;)

Thanks! Architectural Digest is a constant source of debatable taste ;)

So true! What would this channel be without Roland

@@AudioPilz Just wait until you start discovering the remaining Korg "Wolca" (I love how Austrians and Germans say that) and "Valdorf" (equally, technically correct, awesome pronunciation) like the Streichfett (I'll watch just to hear the pronunciation of that one), 2 - Pole, Q, or the (Korg) Kick, nuBass, Modular, and Drum. And don't even get me started on Alesis - wow! Prime material there. (Fusion, Micron, Quadrasynth, etc). As for Roland, I can't wait too see you get your hands on an MV-8000. It's the perfect love / hate groovebox / sampler / workstation / beatbox / soup - to - nuts MIDI sequencing, recording, mixing, mastering, burning - your - own - finished - CD machine!

Love the HD Reverb, the 160 compressor is nice and some of the modulation and special FX add a cool special sauce!

@@AudioPilz thank you for your reply . I’m using a boss cs-3 . And a modified g1xon with the extra patches as you mentioned in one of your videos . I found a physical dedicated compression pedal is better for tweaking , but the other effects I can live with ,,,(set and forget ) , the expression pedal is a bonus it helps to assign a parameter 4 an effect , although not in stereo.. ,,,,thanks and keep up the good work! Luv it ...!

Agreed it's a well-executed unit!

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Nice bargain!

Absolutely! Or the other way around - I'll come to the States

@@AudioPilz i've got a comfy couch!

Wait. I want to buy a SH-32 before the prices go up post-video 🤣 You can borrow my EF-303 to bide the time...

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Thanks! I'm actually the guy doing all the work so I'll take that as a compliment

@@AudioPilz Oh, well done man. Very good. I assumed it was a team.

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It's certainly good at what it does

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Not the worst reference, thanks!;)

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Thanks! It happens to the best!

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Thank you so much!

Yeah, it's mostly a marketing and pricing failure, I would say

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