Roland System-8 & JD-Xi jam with interactive chord 

thanks :) I did that a while back now.

Hi Woody :) Thanks. I was struggling a bit with a few parts on this, playing live without edits is always challenging!

Hi @hedegaard8, I think Xmas is going to be good for you this year! Good luck with the new synths and let me know how you go!

@@ranzee I think so too, thanks! I saw this video and decided to get the JD-xi: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PZYw6B5TRTs.html And then watching your video I see the great possibilities with this little machine. Owned several great synths during the years, but had a 10 year pause in new purchases. Have the D-70, JD800, JD990, Korg Oasys, Korg N364, Korg Wavestation, D-10, D-50, Roland W-30, PolyMoog. Buying the MicroKorg and JD-Xi and Monologue are my first purchases in "small synths".

Hey Marc :) Thanks for the nice comments :) I was struggling with the compressor and the fader tended to jump - which is an MX-1 issue.

Fair deal, I actually didn't know that about the MX-1, but sounds about right. Always a pleasure to support great music with a thumbs up and a comment ;-)

Hey Plucka :) I'll have to play this in the car! Cheers mate :)

Thanks Patrick!

Hi Dave, thanks mate :) Have an awesome week!

Thanks :)

Hi @Willis.Wills :) Cool use of the JD-Xi! If you want to tame the MIDI, you can use something like a MIDIPal/MIDIBro - which has an awesome MIDI filter feature. That can be used to just allow note data through - or pretty much whatever you want :) I haven't heard a lowrey for years! If you liked the Jam - this video goes into how I did the setup: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-M4wP0oA_fK0.html. Also there's some more scheduled for later this week - so hope you like them :)

Awesome! Thanks for the tip. I've been considering a Beat Step Pro for a while now, which I think could do the job too, but I'll take a look at the Pal/Bro. I'm also wondering if that 'RetroKits' cable for the volca sample could make it more consistent... I'll try to get a video up myself of the Lowrey set up, it really does have some great sounds. It's pretty great to control it externally too because the drum sounds are pretty good, but it only has cheesy presets on board. The tones are pretty excellent too, and it allows you to layer a dozen common rompler sounds on top of the 3 different types of organ. It gets screwy though with the Jd-xi: I will make a few different 'programs' to switch through as I jam, and sometimes when the program switches all the sounds on the organ change! It's totally unpredictable though unfortunately; sometimes they change to just an organ with a rompler layer, or sometimes I'll get one piece of the percussion kit across the whole keyboard, letting you play it in any pitch. I just picked the thing up for $25 a week or so ago, and I'm still not even sure what the exact model is, but it was $25 very well spent for sure!

Hi Roman, thank you - have a nice weekend!

Great question! The JD-Xi has some great drums, and also the sequencer is cool. However, the drum sounds are just samples and you don't get a lot of sonic sculpting ability with them. I definitely could have used the drums on the Xi. I didn't because the TR-8 has quite a lot of features that allow you to change the timbre of each drum part - for example: the kick has tone, attack, decay and compressor.

Hi j joker! Here's the link to that video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-M4wP0oA_fK0.html

Hi Paul, I usually have something else as a master clock - like the MPC Live or a PC/Mac running Ableton.