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 - Hudba
Favourite patch, anyone? 😊
It has to be [Darkfucker], because of the secret key! 😂 Or should I say Hainbach button? 🤯
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.
@@levisj125that’s a fun patch 😊
@@Stakkeroidthanks. I also love anything that uses a little Waveshaping 😊
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$
Great stuff!!!
Thanks friend 😊
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.
Now THAT is a proper V-Synth video 💪
A few years in the making, I guess 😂
@@magicalsynthadventure3216
Better late than frozen into a "boing" with the x/y pad my Nan always used to say.
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!!!!
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
Thanks 😊
Of course, the presentation and sounds are incredible but I also appreciate how measured and calm your voice is. CZcams can be really over the top sometimes so it's a nice change.
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 🤣
No worries, one of the joys of the tubes is that you can always speed up or slow things down, time stretch stylevvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
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.
Thanks for stopping by 😊
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.
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!
Thanks for making this. Love my V synth many have come and gone but mine is still here. Enjoyed your presentation.
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!
Thanks. It’s a fun exercise, I feel I learned a lot more just by doing the deep dive 😂
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.
Thanks, I think cEvin STILL uses one live!
Thanks for sharing these lovely sounds 🙂
Love the first minute; great short music video! The riser at 0:01 is my favorite patch-part. Nice!
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.
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 😊
Always good to see this keyboard getting some love. the patches are lovely. I like Outlands a lot!
Yeah I love that one too, it makes me think of “Wuthering Heights”, the book, randomly 😂 I think my fave is Tread Water tho.
One of the best rare video which dive into the V-synth features. Thanks!
Thanks!
Awesome creative tool Paulee and an awesome video!
oMG the young Jordan Rudess is so adorable 😊
Definitely of its time!! I like it!! 😎 Thanks! 🙏🏼
Really cool demo of what the V-Synth can do! Thanks for uploading!!!
I’m sure I haven’t even explored half of it 😂
Lovely! Thanks for sharing the patches. Me an my XT will enjoy the sound.
Have fun!
I love it so much! The video and the V-Synth of course.
Thanks! It’s one of my faves 😊
Watched this twice already, so good.
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!
Thanks a bunch! 😊
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.
Inspiring! I am sitting with my V Synth GT while watching this vid. Looking forward to trying your patches later. Thank you. 💥
I know importing works, but I wonder if they’ll sound a little different in the GT?
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. 😁 ♥ 🎶 🎹
Very cool! 😊
Lovely stuff, Paulee. (And that Terry Gilliam-esque slide-in moment at 12:54...😃)
Your sounds are great, really. Congrats.
This actually might be the best hardware synth of the 2000s
You know, you could be right!
And 2024 😊
I need this in the Roland Cloud! Thanks for the great review.
This would be awesome in Roland Cloud!
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!
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 😊
Well, maybe or maybe not. How about the JD-XA, my first analogue synth? Really beautiful.
The XA is one I’d like to try 👌🏻
@@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.
I need to get a hold of the V-card to try it out!
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.
A mini Vsynth would be very cool!
Awesome!
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
Have fun! 😊
i love the microwave beep sounds when you touch the screen lol
Me too 😂, you can choose to switch them off, but I feel they add an old-school computer charm.
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 ....
Thanks! The V-Synth is really what you make it 😊
I would just like to hear your voice, it's so relaxing, with some smooth playing here and then :)
I have read out my fair share of meditation scripts at work 😂
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
Wow thanks!!
I just have to give you props on naming a patch EBOWLAVIRUS 😂
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.
I agree, it’s just ridiculously deep 😊
It did not only made it to my GAS list, but I’m picking one up next week ! 😊
Wahey, congrats! DBeams all ‘round 😂
@@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.
happy I still have one, very diverse
i love the v synth so much i had to buy another one . currently fighting the urge to own a third hahah
Got the pleasure of seeing cEvin Key use one while I was on the rail for a Skinny Puppy show a few months ago⚡
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.
Very cool track you made also! 🌫️ 🌪️👍🏾
Thanks! It was literally one patch with 3 small additions, drums, bass and a bell sound 😊
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'.
Yeah I love traditional sample transposition too, for happy accidents :)
24:57 wow…..
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.
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
Thanks for the video. Starting to scratch the surface on the V-Synth since the Prophet X is back for repair (again).
Oh no! Board swap?
@@magicalsynthadventure3216 yes seems to have fixed it.
Keep it up.
Just started a Patreon to stay motivated 😂
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.
Lol. PS his name is Fenn 😊
Fenn, got it, great name...
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.
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
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!
The full CASIO “Play Today!” video is available for your viewing pleasure here: czcams.com/video/DbKZREfJyZY/video.html
Yep, I wanted one of these and didn't get one. It was a very cool keyboard - still is.
That Usbourne book is great, I still think of filters with little robots in them.
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 😂
Great synth, even though i only use mine for processing video samples these days. You get bonus points for the Star Fleet VHS
Thanks! My mom bought me that from Woolworths lol.
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.
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.
It’s odd, I just never use the knobs! I completely forget they’re there.
@@magicalsynthadventure3216 kk 😁
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!
It has a definite sound to it, and one that I feel is still relevant today for weird effect sounds 😊
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?
I know that the GT loses D550 emulation.
@@magicalsynthadventure3216 Yes, and it sounded a bit thiner....
Voiceover on quaaludes.
😂😴
1:22 Jordan Rudess? 😯
The very same 😊
Dream Theatre
@@donkeevney I know who Jordan is, but have you seen him in this video? I've never seen him with hair on his head!
Actually, thinking about it, that's not entirely true... During Covid he has a video (or some?) where he hadn't shaved himself.
It’s the Kurzweil K2500 video 😊
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!
Nothing over 16726Hz is allowed in the library 😂
@@magicalsynthadventure3216 😂 sweet
Watched this twice already, so good.
Thanks!
Watched this twice already, so good.