Secrets of the Roland V-Synth - Retrospective/Deep-Dive

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The EPIC & futuristic Roland V-synth celebrates it's 20th anniversary this year, so lets celebrate!
Go to 21:30 for patch demos with no talking!
Please download patches here:
www.mediafire.com/file/tzj45l...
Street Footage Credits:
/ @travelathome999
/ @nkjm1978
Thanks to Jim Stout for giving me permission to use NAMM '03 Footage.
Shout out to Hainbach and hope you don't mind the use of your likeness :)
00:00 Video Start
01:44 V-Synth Introduction
03:48 Deep-Dive
21:30 My Patches (No-Talking)
33:18 FOUND THE HAINBACH BUTTON

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25 июл 2024

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@magicalsynthadventure3216 11 месяцев назад

Favourite patch, anyone? 😊

@levisj125 11 месяцев назад

It has to be [Darkfucker], because of the secret key! 😂 Or should I say Hainbach button? 🤯

@Stakkeroid 11 месяцев назад

Not one of the patches, but my favorite sound is from 20:35 on… lovely! Also I love Unstable.EP, simple as it may be.

@elmosexwhistle 11 месяцев назад

@@levisj125that’s a fun patch 😊

@elmosexwhistle 11 месяцев назад

@@Stakkeroidthanks. I also love anything that uses a little Waveshaping 😊

@donovanrebbechi3334 10 месяцев назад

quite a few good ones. I like "creeps" with the harmonic content you can dial in and out. A lot of the "shimmering sounds" are really good for example #fairlight$

@AlexBallMusic 11 месяцев назад

Brilliant Paulee, nice one! I particularly liked what you found at 17:30 and also 20:39, really beautiful and unexpected. Definitely one of Roland's best 00s synths.

@AudioPilz 11 месяцев назад

Great stuff!!!

@magicalsynthadventure3216 11 месяцев назад

Thanks friend 😊

@COSDR 11 месяцев назад

So 20 years passed since the day I got a music technology magazine just to learn about Roland's new synth and to listen to the demos that really stunned me. I am a proud owner, I still use it for my productions and still love to play with it, programming it, combining samples with waveforms and its awesome filters, effects, and immersive controllers. It is still a great .......VST instrument in a hardware form😄Happy 20th Anniversary!!!!

@asynchronicity 11 месяцев назад

Now THAT is a proper V-Synth video 💪

@magicalsynthadventure3216 11 месяцев назад

A few years in the making, I guess 😂

@asynchronicity 11 месяцев назад

@@magicalsynthadventure3216 Better late than frozen into a "boing" with the x/y pad my Nan always used to say.

@calsynth Месяц назад

I was on the fence about getting a V-Synth, but this has done it for me. Hard to pick a favourite patch, but Outlands if I had to. Thanks so much for this

@magicalsynthadventure3216 Месяц назад

Thanks 😊

@bilonggrisimmeri 11 месяцев назад

I've enjoyed your appearances in Sonic Talk, so had to watch this. You demo is absolute gold dust, and will re-awaken my use of V-Synth, especially FM. Thank you so much.

@magicalsynthadventure3216 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for stopping by 😊

@WilyEPeyote 11 месяцев назад

Nice video and some lovely sounds. The V-Synth is one of those magical synths that can still excite me even after two decades of happy pottering about.

@kemek3000 11 месяцев назад

Of course, the presentation and sounds are incredible but I also appreciate how measured and calm your voice is. RU-vid can be really over the top sometimes so it's a nice change.

@magicalsynthadventure3216 11 месяцев назад

It’s all those years of running mindfulness meditation classes 😂. To be honest though I was concerned that I’m TOO calm/slow and that people would get bored 🤣

@stuartmaybe 10 месяцев назад

No worries, one of the joys of the tubes is that you can always speed up or slow things down, time stretch stylevvvvvvvvvvvvvvv

@GrimVoxTech 3 месяца назад

Awesome demo! I have not used my V-Synth XT for a while, this inspires me to do something about that. For sure I'll try out your patches, which are super. Thanks!

@mattbrown-mb 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for sharing these lovely sounds 🙂

@christopherprice3226 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for making this. Love my V synth many have come and gone but mine is still here. Enjoyed your presentation.

@levisj125 11 месяцев назад

Such a great overview of the synth and some amazing patches! I'm going to spend a week or two going over them, so I can learn a lot more about my synth! Thank you, Paulee!

@magicalsynthadventure3216 11 месяцев назад

Thanks. It’s a fun exercise, I feel I learned a lot more just by doing the deep dive 😂

@_Jek 11 месяцев назад

Love the first minute; great short music video! The riser at 0:01 is my favorite patch-part. Nice!

@Strages_Powers 11 месяцев назад

Awesome creative tool Paulee and an awesome video!

@calyx93 2 месяца назад

Good vid - I've been a user of this lovely machine since its introduction to the market. So much fun just simply loading a sample and experimenting with the pitch, time and formant - incredibly useful sounds emerge. NOTHING like it - there's a reason Coil, cEvin, Key and Richard Barbieri loved it. Excellent programming on your part - very impressive.

@magicalsynthadventure3216 2 месяца назад

Thanks, I think cEvin STILL uses one live!

@edwingamesandmusic 11 месяцев назад

Always good to see this keyboard getting some love. the patches are lovely. I like Outlands a lot!

@magicalsynthadventure3216 11 месяцев назад

Yeah I love that one too, it makes me think of “Wuthering Heights”, the book, randomly 😂 I think my fave is Tread Water tho.

@gerti303 11 месяцев назад

Lovely! Thanks for sharing the patches. Me an my XT will enjoy the sound.

@magicalsynthadventure3216 11 месяцев назад

Have fun!

@kierenmoore3236 10 месяцев назад

Definitely of its time!! I like it!! 😎 Thanks! 🙏🏼

@automaticgainsay 11 месяцев назад

Informative, well-delivered, entertaining... and your music is always absolutely luscious! I knew nothing about this keyboard, and I'm glad that now I do! Hearing the vari effect on the sample was awe-inspiring for me. That is SO cool.

@magicalsynthadventure3216 11 месяцев назад

Thanks so much! Yeah it’s pretty cool, though it does have a very pronounced time stretchy flavour, I think the new granular algos in say, the Microfreak are less jarring, but I actually do like that very deliberate variphrase sound anyway, and if you add some sideband filtering it really makes it more subtle 😊

@coyotesynth 11 месяцев назад

Your sounds are great, really. Congrats.

@christianvictor827 11 месяцев назад

I love it so much! The video and the V-Synth of course.

@magicalsynthadventure3216 11 месяцев назад

Thanks! It’s one of my faves 😊

@isingthebodyelectrick 11 месяцев назад

Lovely stuff, Paulee. (And that Terry Gilliam-esque slide-in moment at 12:54...😃)

@hollodigidesign4518 8 месяцев назад

Really cool demo of what the V-Synth can do! Thanks for uploading!!!

@magicalsynthadventure3216 8 месяцев назад

I’m sure I haven’t even explored half of it 😂

@jonathanmcgregor6297 11 месяцев назад

Watched this twice already, so good.

@marinerecords58corshagwen 6 месяцев назад

One of the best rare video which dive into the V-synth features. Thanks!

@magicalsynthadventure3216 6 месяцев назад

Thanks!

@freddiesamples 9 месяцев назад

Absloutely magnifico programming. The use of the controllers on this synth are awesome. You actually will develop a unique style of playing. My go to synth. Great job on this.

@gesslr 11 месяцев назад

First of all, I really enjoy your contributions to SonicTalk! Second, this video is FANTASTIC. I’ve had a GT for about 10 years. It’s so easy to get distracted by all of the new stuff that is around us and ‘forget’ why you fell in love with an instrument. This video inspires me to go fall in love with VSynth again. Thank you! 😊 Fantastic sounds too!

@magicalsynthadventure3216 11 месяцев назад

Thanks a bunch! 😊

@kevinsturges6957 2 месяца назад

I need this in the Roland Cloud! Thanks for the great review.

@magicalsynthadventure3216 2 месяца назад

This would be awesome in Roland Cloud!

@doublebass5y 6 месяцев назад

Thanks Paulee. Fantastic video. This synth is amazing and you have done a top job of demonstrating some of its features. Thanks. Now just got to track one down . Maybe ROLAND will re visit it some day like the Boutiques.

@magicalsynthadventure3216 6 месяцев назад

A mini Vsynth would be very cool!

@supercompooper 11 месяцев назад

oMG the young Jordan Rudess is so adorable 😊

@ElectronicazMusic 11 месяцев назад

Inspiring! I am sitting with my V Synth GT while watching this vid. Looking forward to trying your patches later. Thank you. 💥

@magicalsynthadventure3216 11 месяцев назад

I know importing works, but I wonder if they’ll sound a little different in the GT?

@ElectronicazMusic 11 месяцев назад

Should sound identical. (should! 😁) I have to first convert your bank to a gt bank then each patch opens as one half of a Gt patch. The other half being an init patch. 😁 ♥ 🎶 🎹

@magicalsynthadventure3216 11 месяцев назад

Very cool! 😊

@sunilsolanki 11 месяцев назад

What a fantastic video. I had absolutely no idea how powerful a sound design tool this synth is. Sounds incredible. Probably the last, imaginative and forward looking hardware synth Roland made. Your patches were really lovely as well. Pure T2 soundtrack vibes in places. The opening song was excellent as well!

@magicalsynthadventure3216 11 месяцев назад

Thanks! It’s a hell of a deep synth, and every parameter page seems to have it’s own envelope 🤪. I am glad I got the chance to show off my sound design skills, maybe someone will employ me 😊

@bilonggrisimmeri 11 месяцев назад

Well, maybe or maybe not. How about the JD-XA, my first analogue synth? Really beautiful.

@magicalsynthadventure3216 11 месяцев назад

The XA is one I’d like to try 👌🏻

@bilonggrisimmeri 11 месяцев назад

@@magicalsynthadventure3216 V-Synth Patch 20, "Juno BASS" is just plain wicked! How realistic it is to a real Juno, I've no idea? With V-Card, it can also do a Roland D-50 and a more complicated vocoder than any other one out there. Again, no idea how good a D-50 re-creation? You get extra waveforms, not in the original D-50 too. Secondhand prices are likely to go up, unfortunately. Let's hope they supply service parts like screens for many decades.

@magicalsynthadventure3216 11 месяцев назад

I need to get a hold of the V-card to try it out!

@torbenanschau6641 7 месяцев назад

This actually might be the best hardware synth of the 2000s

@magicalsynthadventure3216 7 месяцев назад

You know, you could be right!

@antoniocalimero1173 3 месяца назад

And 2024 😊

@donovanrebbechi3334 10 месяцев назад

Fun video. I recently bought this thing and am having a lot of fun just playing the presets but this video makes me really want to dive into the sound design functionality

@magicalsynthadventure3216 10 месяцев назад

Have fun! 😊

@smartti1970 11 месяцев назад

Fantastic sounds, first time i start to understand a bit the capabilities of this synth's engin and that i understand why it is praised .... well of course there is lot of creativity from the artist .... lovely ....

@magicalsynthadventure3216 11 месяцев назад

Thanks! The V-Synth is really what you make it 😊

@Soul4sale1001 11 месяцев назад

Awesome!

@badinibeats5939 11 месяцев назад

i love the microwave beep sounds when you touch the screen lol

@magicalsynthadventure3216 11 месяцев назад

Me too 😂, you can choose to switch them off, but I feel they add an old-school computer charm.

@GRIFFARTCENTER 11 месяцев назад

I would just like to hear your voice, it's so relaxing, with some smooth playing here and then :)

@magicalsynthadventure3216 11 месяцев назад

I have read out my fair share of meditation scripts at work 😂

@newignis 27 дней назад

It did not only made it to my GAS list, but I’m picking one up next week ! 😊

@magicalsynthadventure3216 26 дней назад

Wahey, congrats! DBeams all ‘round 😂

@newignis 17 дней назад

@@magicalsynthadventure3216 played the XT until late last night on its own. Will need to combine it with my Fantom X DBeam to make your slogan work :-). But what an original sound synthesis, and ease of use. Really weird Roland did not pursue that line of innovation so much afterwards.

@JanavarKan83 5 месяцев назад

I just have to give you props on naming a patch EBOWLAVIRUS 😂

@bramsegers2414 3 месяца назад

happy I still have one, very diverse

@Charnel89 10 месяцев назад

I bought one in 2005 as a teen and I have no words for how awesome it was. I played keyboard in a rock band at the time and the V-synth was the perfect performance instrument with aftertouch, v-beam and the infamous TimeTrip pad. I still have it today and will probably keep it for the rest of my life

@doctorsynth1 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for lovingly reviewing one of my favorite "modern" synthesizers. It's not trying to be "virtual analog", although it can still make traditional analog synth sounds. It's so much more, with the time trip pad, sampling, variphrase, and the COSM effects modeling.

@magicalsynthadventure3216 10 месяцев назад

I agree, it’s just ridiculously deep 😊

@DonLeino Месяц назад

i love the v synth so much i had to buy another one . currently fighting the urge to own a third hahah

@truth4lies86 11 месяцев назад

Got the pleasure of seeing cEvin Key use one while I was on the rail for a Skinny Puppy show a few months ago⚡

@magicalsynthadventure3216 11 месяцев назад

I saw an image on GS (I think)! So cool that this synth is still being used as a live tool. Richard Barbieri still uses one too.

@truth4lies86 11 месяцев назад

Very cool track you made also! 🌫️ 🌪️👍🏾

@magicalsynthadventure3216 11 месяцев назад

Thanks! It was literally one patch with 3 small additions, drums, bass and a bell sound 😊

@rogerzinn8898 11 месяцев назад

Wow thanks!!

@DivKid 11 месяцев назад

Happy to be a source of sample material, nice to hear from the V Synth too. While the varispeed was nice I did like the scattered looping of different pitches of 'how can I get through this fog'.

@magicalsynthadventure3216 11 месяцев назад

Yeah I love traditional sample transposition too, for happy accidents :)

@jeffevansmusic 10 месяцев назад

I have had one for quite a long time and love it. It is very unique and Roland have not really made a synth like this since. One thing to note is people are making new patch banks for some very old synths right now and for this one as well. Particular Sound in Germany have got a great bank of VSynth patches. Amazing pads and very complex textures abound. Although I feel its a digital synth and it has a digital sound a lot of the time it still can surprise as to how warm and analog it can also sound.

@NickHowesAstro 11 месяцев назад

Nick Rhodes and Martyn Ware's use of this is exemplary. The ability to imitate many of their classic sounds from days of Yore is one of the key selling points. I got a varios (for peanuts as it has zero modern software support) and run that in an XP VM, and it's fabulous. The JP8 is not even close to the one on the System-8, but still has a nice character of its own and lends itself to some nice programming ideas. I only wish Roland would open up the API/interface to third party developers as they dropped it like a ton of bricks.. Nice video, some really nice touches in the presentation too

@pfmmodule5144 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for the video. Starting to scratch the surface on the V-Synth since the Prophet X is back for repair (again).

@magicalsynthadventure3216 7 месяцев назад

Oh no! Board swap?

@pfmmodule5144 6 месяцев назад

@@magicalsynthadventure3216 yes seems to have fixed it.

@Noname7401 11 месяцев назад

Keep it up.

@magicalsynthadventure3216 11 месяцев назад

Just started a Patreon to stay motivated 😂

@rattlededge-somemikeratled1630 9 месяцев назад

ben sitting on your lap at sonictalk ... big wide eyed looks at your studio ... i'd hazard ben mighta been having a think ... "wow....one day all these sythns will be mine !!!.." best to you and yours.

@magicalsynthadventure3216 9 месяцев назад

Lol. PS his name is Fenn 😊

@rattlededge-somemikeratled1630 9 месяцев назад

Fenn, got it, great name...

@enricopallazzoofficial 11 месяцев назад

Great job Paulee... The V-Synth is a synth that always catched my interest but i don't know why i never pulled the trigger on it. It's great to see a Renaissance and recognision of the value of Digital synths. We "needed" analogue after decades of digital and it was cool BUT the moment you realise that an analogue synth is an analogue synth and they are all "similar" (i'm deliberately exaggerating) you start to look for something else and that "else" is digital. Long live digital synths

@magicalsynthadventure3216 11 месяцев назад

You know, on one hand I have a about 6 Analogues & a few Eurorack modules. On the other hand, I have 30-40 Digital synths and hybrids! I just love the variety ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Also thanks!

@Johnmb23 6 месяцев назад

Great video! Just hooked my V up the other day. I’d love to see a video explaining how to use the Vsynth’s 16 parts with MIDI. Explain how to send separate MIDI channels to each part and if it’s possible to change parameters like filter cut offs to each part. I’ve asked Group and no one seems to have any clue. I figured out how to get a few parts to play by sending different mini channels to it but other than that the rest is a mystery to me.

@SSBBMario301 10 месяцев назад

24:57 wow…..

@gunark 11 месяцев назад

That Usbourne book is great, I still think of filters with little robots in them.

@magicalsynthadventure3216 11 месяцев назад

I love the Usborne books! My favourite wasn’t from this book, but was an image of a robot crashing through a wall because it had been told to travel to a shop, in the shortest distance possible 😂

@gunark 9 месяцев назад

Just got one of these oddboxes (well, an XT), lots to figure out. Firstly why it won't book with a CF card in it (boots fine without). Also, can you clear the internal memory completely, like when you hold EXIT on boot, but without doing that? So I can start from a clean slate with my own samples.

@vhshead 4 месяца назад

Great synth, even though i only use mine for processing video samples these days. You get bonus points for the Star Fleet VHS

@magicalsynthadventure3216 4 месяца назад

Thanks! My mom bought me that from Woolworths lol.

@budgetkeyboardist 11 месяцев назад

Yep, I wanted one of these and didn't get one. It was a very cool keyboard - still is.

@magicalsynthadventure3216 11 месяцев назад

The full CASIO “Play Today!” video is available for your viewing pleasure here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DbKZREfJyZY.html

@motoboy6666 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for this, was a unreachable synth at the time. Is the tweaking mostly done on the screen? Thought maybe the buttons and knobs were the main thing with the screen as a substitute, but maybe its the other way around.

@magicalsynthadventure3216 5 месяцев назад

It’s odd, I just never use the knobs! I completely forget they’re there.

@motoboy6666 5 месяцев назад

@@magicalsynthadventure3216 kk 😁

@VacancyOfDisco 11 месяцев назад

thank you for making this video! i only had a vsynth very briefly before i had to sell it for stupid life stuff. back then they were still a bit under $1k. I would love to get another but the prices keep climbing :/ Roland really needs to revisit Variphrase! or at the very least make the source code public so other people can build upon it. There really isnt anything like it!

@magicalsynthadventure3216 11 месяцев назад

It has a definite sound to it, and one that I feel is still relevant today for weird effect sounds 😊

@morespaces9061 Месяц назад

Love my XT, but i should take it out of the box ;-) Back then i wanted to buy the GT because of its expanded power, but when i played it at Messe back then i found that it had not the exactly the sound of my XT.Anyone compared the two soundwise? Opinions?

@magicalsynthadventure3216 Месяц назад

I know that the GT loses D550 emulation.

@morespaces9061 Месяц назад

@@magicalsynthadventure3216 Yes, and it sounded a bit thiner....

@GertBoers 11 месяцев назад

1:22 Jordan Rudess? 😯

@magicalsynthadventure3216 11 месяцев назад

The very same 😊

@donkeevney 11 месяцев назад

Dream Theatre

@GertBoers 11 месяцев назад

@@donkeevney I know who Jordan is, but have you seen him in this video? I've never seen him with hair on his head!

@GertBoers 11 месяцев назад

Actually, thinking about it, that's not entirely true... During Covid he has a video (or some?) where he hadn't shaved himself.

@magicalsynthadventure3216 11 месяцев назад

It’s the Kurzweil K2500 video 😊

@lb2696 8 месяцев назад

Voiceover on quaaludes.

@magicalsynthadventure3216 8 месяцев назад

😂😴

@jm6734 11 месяцев назад

Your musical and programming talent needs absolutely no «As seen on TV» Hainbach sticker. Looks like you’re about to join that infamous influencers forum.. cringe ;-) I’ve already ordered your yet to be released masochist programming digital synths sound library. Keep it crunchy!

@magicalsynthadventure3216 11 месяцев назад

Nothing over 16726Hz is allowed in the library 😂

@jm6734 11 месяцев назад

@@magicalsynthadventure3216 😂 sweet

@jonathanmcgregor6297 11 месяцев назад

Watched this twice already, so good.

@jonathanmcgregor6297 11 месяцев назад

Watched this twice already, so good.

@magicalsynthadventure3216 11 месяцев назад

Thanks!