Playing Gary Numan - Children Riff On The Roland D-50 From 1987

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Video Blog #3
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, English musician Gary Numan had a great run of several recordings that included sounds from the legendary Roland D-50. For the synth riff on 'Children', the preset 'DigitalNativeDance' is used. The countless records where I have heard this patch - as a factory preset or slightly adjusted - would make a list too long to include here. It can be heard on some of the biggest recordings from that era as well as more obscure albums. For my third video blog, it was time to turn on the D-50 and play this great riff!
Music:
Devin Gademan - And All Generations To Come (LHSR)
Me playing a section of the "Children" riff
Video:
Nikon Z6 (Nikkor 85mm 1.8 & 24-70/4 S)
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9 сен 2024

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@kareninayanez150 2 месяца назад

Wow! This riff sounds like heaven! 😇😇😇😇😇😇

@devingademan 2 месяца назад

Thank you! And yes, this Gary Numan riff perfectly demonstrates the great ‘DigitalNativeDance’ preset from the Roland D-50 which in and of itself is quite a heavenly synth! :-)

@GeorgeDimopoulos 3 месяца назад

Memories had a D50!!!!long time ago

@devingademan 3 месяца назад

That’s cool! An important synth in history. Thanks for subscribing as well! -Devin

@SamDeeksRelovedGuitars 3 месяца назад

I had a Casio FZ-1 sampling synth when it first came out (bloody expensive!) but it was unreliable and so I jumped ship to the D50 which was just astonishing by comparison. It's 'downfall' was how over-used all its patches became... those of us who owned one could literally name the patches when we heard them come up on the hits of the day :) I bought the programer unit - the PG1000 - for the D50 so that every single parameter had a slider but even then editing or modifying a patch was just SO difficult. I think that's why we stuck to playing the presets. By the time I was heartily fed up with the 'breathy chiffer' and 'shakuhachi' (along with the infuriating DigitalNativeDance) I just used the D50 to control a MAudio digital piano module that was a perfect match.

@devingademan 3 месяца назад

Hi Sam and thank you for your extensive comment! Yes, synths that had sampling ram on board were incredibly expensive in those days (i'm from 1996 so this is not from experience, but from what I have read). Here in Germany, the company Hohner basically had the same Casio engines in some of their synths, only with a different housing (for the FZ-1 there was a Hohner HS-1). The Roland D-50 was my first ever real synth that I bought 30+ years after its original release; I programmed - and still program - it just by using the screen because the original controller as you mentioned as well as one made by a Dutch company (Dtronics) weren't/aren't cheap. I'm actually a little grateful for it because in hindsight; understanding the structures that came with the D-50, made it a lot easier to program some of my other synths. Again, thank you for time writing the comment and watching the short video! -Devin

@SamDeeksRelovedGuitars 3 месяца назад

@@devingademan I bought my D-50 in 1987 one of the first batches in the UK IIRC. I wasn't really a keyboard player, more a 'sound-scaper' sort of person. But it was obvious to me, even after having had a few analogue synths and having been able to mess about with the DX-7 (which I really hated the dry, clang-y tones of!), that it was another dimension of synth. This was in terms of the sounds it could make AND the build quality. I sold my recording set up in the early 1990s as the unreliability of most of the analogue stuff (8 track tape machines, DATs etc etc) drove me nuts... I spent more time trying to make machines work than being creative. Since then digital stuff has made things easier... but I've kept it simple so while I make / set up guitars for a living, my only keyboard these days is a Roland digital piano :) These keyboards were ground-breaking in their time, back then in the mid-late 1980s when it was all Jupiters, Junos, DX-7s and E-mus :)