Shame on me.Īnyway, I signed up for a Roland Cloud subscription, and spent the last two days playing through some of my favorite JV/XV patches. In other words, I missed out on two years of Roland magic. I was shocked to see Roland had added the JV-1080 and XV-5080 to Roland Cloud – and they apparently did so all the way back in 2017. I briefly checked out Roland Cloud when it first came out, but didn’t end up keeping it because there weren’t many useful sounds for the stuff I was working on. Now that I’m all settled in and comfortable in Tokyo, I had the perfect excuse to pick up a used Roland XV-5080 or a new Roland INTEGRA-7.ĭuring my eBay research process, I stumbled upon Roland Cloud – Roland’s subscription VST product featuring digital recreations of a variety of iconic instruments. Fast forward to 2020 – I was so excited to be able to work on a project that called for some classic Roland rompler goodness. Unfortunately, I chose to sell everything before moving because it didn’t make sense to move to a new country with a rack case and a gigantic keyboard workstation. For some reason, I thought my parents would be interested to know that the song we were listening to featured a Yamaha MOTIF piano sound.īefore moving to Tokyo, I owned a Yamaha MOTIF XF8 and Roland XV-5050. My rompler phase took place during college, where I was obsessed with trying to identify classic rompler patches in Top 40 hits from the late 90s. If you’re reading this, you probably know what I’m talking about. Like many keyboardists and synthesizer enthusiasts, I went through a rompler phase. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working on a keyboard programming project for a school in Taipei, which required a few classic rompler 1 sounds. Since moving to Tokyo a year and a half ago, I’ve started a new career path, and I don’t have much time to pay attention to the music industry anymore. I’ve been out of the music scene for a while now.
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