Bad Gear - Roland JX-305 - Pub Gig MC-505???
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2020
- In this episode of Bad Gear, the show about the world's most hated audio tools, we are going to ask ourselves how many actual products Roland squeezed out of the MC-505 engine. Is the JX-305 nothing but the pub gig version of the legendary groovebox?
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A fun episode as usual - the bad gear always ends up sounding good... :) I wonder if the Ableton crash report on the right is Live trying to get its own episode
Thanks! Ableton is recently really asking for it😂
@@AudioPilz been happening to me..
@@AudioPilz yeah though joking aside - if it happens to you a lot - email Ableton support. It did for me, sent them the logs and they tracked down one plug-in that did the damage
@@loopop I'm also using a "vintage" version ;) Will do, thanks! (nice to have you around, btw)
@@AudioPilz I think it's known as a 'Legacy' version(!)
I don't know how you manage to keep putting out such high quality content on a regular schedule. I love it.
Thanks! Sleep is the enemy;)
Not even magicians work that hard
Im.so excited to.get my feed blessed every week
Loads of bad gear making it an endless well of content!
@@AudioPilz Sleep is Cheap
I lost it when you put yourself in paintings.
That made quite an, erm, impression... ;)
I love JX-305 it’s my favorite midi controller. Very underrated. Custom program your own patches using 4-tone engine it’s amazing!
- Syncronized Play transport
- Make 8 Part Midi Loops Fast
- JX-305 Arpeggiato is the best Arpeggiator I ever used for making melodies, baselines, and percussion parts - there’s a dozens of very useful arp patterns built in! Way better and more useful than any other hardware or software arp I used.
- Easily record parts into daw (one stereo channel or two mono channels at a time)
- Easily play 8 different VST instruments on the fly
- Keyboard step sequencer works like a charm (just keep practice using it til it becomes easy and basic)
- assign up to knob 16 CC values to control daw VSTi
(Simply switch Envelope, LFO, Effects, Filter, AMP, Pitch switches to assign extra CC values)
- I love synth action AFTERTOUGH + PITCHBEND +
easy Modwheel 0 to 127 curve (this controller style is rare these days)
- instant 0 lag synth engine
- 100% compatible with MC505 midi editor
- No more creative hell. Preset patterns in dozens of styles always gives new ideas 💡 to work off of
- easy full range accessibility with one or two taps to octave switch
- Make MC505 style clips fast! Way more fun than using VSTi (Requires some practice but once you get it down its a breeze!)
- Really fast articulation switches for orchestra libraries (in split keyboard mode)
- Plays Korg and Roland suite VSTi plug ins like a champ
- Easily record midi loops, midi playing, and/or audio
- tweak MC-505 sounds with day effects!
- Unlimited Vocoder potential (when used with a dual input vocoder VST or hardware device)
Nice approach!
You nailed man🎯I also like the fact you can customize the drum kit. Each sound has its own filter,pitch, level, and pitch bend you can adjust separately within the patch👊🏾
Totally agree 👍
Anti climax? Hey this is what I expect from Bad Gear!
And a bit of Polka.
Damn, needs more polka!
@@AudioPilz 'needs more polka' is the 2020 version of 'needs more cowbell'.
*lol* ;-)
@@audiocoffee In that vain we might see a new sort of music called Powbell.
It sounds terrible I am pretty sure.
My best bud had a JX-305 and it was the centerpiece of his setup. He loved the amazing keys and it felt like a piece of pro gear at the time for sure. The step sequencer is very cool but was always kind of complicated for my taste. The tiny display also makes it difficult to keep track of where you are in the menus. Expect a lot of button pushing and wheel spinning to get a patch or sequence just right. The JX-305 is powerful no doubt but the drums have always been lacking in my opinion and same with the MC-505.
In the end, his JX-305 got the notorious display death so he passed it on to me along with his music on the memory card. The cool thing is that the memory card is still working today in my MC-505 and all his songs and patches play perfectly from the JX-305 data!
I still love my MC-505. The sounds are classic and the chassis is metal, a true test of strength :)
Thanks for covering this piece of gear and hopefully the display lasts for you! Loving the jams as always, keep up the great job mate!!
Thanks!
Display fix is easy, run a hot iron across the contacts on the back of display and you’ll get the lines of pixels back
You can replace the display, with a bit of work or in a repair shop, with a cool blue one. Since the whole thing is blue, the green one looks ugly. Even if it still works, it should be replaced, because it will die one day. The flash roms should also be resoldered (by a professional!) and reinitialized, because they tend to come loose.
adriangin.wordpress.com/2015/03/19/fixing-roland-jx-305/
So is a Roland JX-305 an upgrade, the same or a downgrade - if one has a Roland MC-505 with a Roland PC-160 master keyboard?
@@gameon2000 They both have their tradeoffs. I like the 505 because of the sliders for quick volume adjustment of parts.
I find the lack of keys, midi thru, and bend/mod wheel/joystick is usually present on cheap midi keyboards anyhow.
The 505 has more output connections and not worrying about a dc power supply, instead having a standard IEC cable, is nice too.
I think either one is good and it just boils down to your specific intended use.
I think you’re one of the best gear channels on here. The videos keep getting better and better. Keep it up.
Thank you so much!
What a beast! Everytime you say Verdict, I think damn, another great bad gear video is over.
Thank you so much!
You're right about finding a good one being hard work. Been looking for years and not found one that didn't look like it was once used for barricading a door.
It's a zombie apocalypse survival tool!
Maybe using it is so frustrating that sooner or later you start taking revenge.
I quite enjoyed the jams for this one. Also really enjoying the little extra flares that have gone into the video production recently, great content as always man.
Thank you so much!
@@AudioPilz These are sheer comedy gold. You can make the most hilarious point in 0.5 seconds.
What the hell pubs do you go to? 😉
Brilliant as usual. Bad Gear GAS is where it's at.
You know, raver at night...
Congratulations on your channel, mate. Incredibly well produced and highly informative. And very fun to watch!
Thank you so much!
YES! So happy you made this video, been waiting for it!
Thanks!
Bad Gear is among the best recurring synth shows anywhere! When I see a new episode appear, I get the same dopamine rush that I get from a new loopop or Nick Batt review. Keep up the good work.
Thank you so much!
I love this show ...it's for my age group ..owned everything rubbish thinking one box was gonna make me sound like Future sound of London...lol
I think the FSOL is more based on party supplies, not audio gear;)
Enjoyed it ,another quality episode. Laughed at the beats to do stuff to, brilliant.
Thank you so much!
Selfishly, I wish ur shows were longer. I love watching them. Best synth and electronic music show on UA-cam by far.
Thanks! Still developing the format...
Sooner or later I expect to see my beloved Roland EG-101 Groovekeyboard in one of these. I've had a love hate relationship with it for 20 years. I could write an essay about the bastard thing. As a standalone unit it sucks harder than a specialised hooker, but then, in 2003 I discovered Cubase and Midi and suddenly the universe was mine, but even that was hard work. A couple of years ago I created a series of combinators in Reason which can tweak every last midi cc setting in the manual, but because it's Roland, it still managed to grow a leg and kick my arse so I created a VST which controls absolutely every single setting including all of the RPNs and NRPNs (not listed in the manual). Again, the Universe was mine and it's still a mainstay in my setup. I hate the bloody thing with a passion. I'll never get rid of it. Ever. I love that piece of crap too much. The interface is severely limiting, but what's inside it is still awesome.
Great! Does the plugin work with other mc505 related instruments as well?
@@AudioPilz I'm not sure. I don't own any others. It might need some tweaking, but the midi messages should be pretty much the same. Maybe a few extra features that need adding. I'll have a look at the manuals for the ones I know you have.
I'm an open-source kind of person. I don't keep secrets. Knowledge should belong to everyone. I created it in a piece of free software called CTRLR and patiently sat down with the midi implementation chart adding knobs for each setting. It took about an hour to properly work out what I was doing and a few hours to finish the interface which is just a keyboard, a ton of knobs with labels and a few dropdown menus. Once you get one knob working, it's just cut, paste, edit. You can export it as a vst dll which Reason recognised so it's bound to work with pretty much anything. It also exports as a standalone exe. I used another piece of free software to create the graphics for the knobs called Knobman. None f this is particularly hard once you understand the interface. I wrote vsts for my volcas as practise beforehand.
I have yet to add the function that reads the settings from the EG-101 when you change the midi channel, but I now have access to the envelope settings, LFO settings (TVF, TVA, pitch and rate), modulation, vibrato and chorus settings as well as a choice of 6 reverb types and two delays. None of which are accessible from the keyboard itself. You can save a snapshot from the vst which is great because there is no way to store it on the unit. Through the eg101 itself, you pick a voice and you change its volume, reverb time and level and play with the filter. That's it. Shame because what's inside the case is truly gold.
@@AudioPilz CTRLR is here: ctrlr.org/
Tutorials, etc are easily googled.
Yes, EG 101 was pretty rough!
jjchop.wordpress.com/2014/06/15/roland-eg-101-extended-vsti/
Putting yourself in those paintings is what got me to click the like button on this one.
Thanks!
I had one of these! Classic ROMpler! As someone who's always extracted the most from every piece of gear I've owned my whole life, I spent a lot of time in sound design with the JX-305, so I never actually use presets with any piece of gear. All Roland gear more or less is structured the same, probably from the D-50 days, base 4 voices, ENV, FILT, LFO, MOD structure. The best thing about them including the 305 tho was you could map the pitch bender to the filter which is a 14bit controller instead of the usual 7bit so you get much finer stepping. Lots of gear doesn't permit that mapping so that this basic-a** digital light-weight does was pretty cool for me at the time! Was so cool to see that thumb-wear patch in the powder-coating at the end there, I reckon every single 305 must eventually get it that saw serious use.
That give me an idea... one of my very first keyboards was an Alesis Quadrasynth Plus... (plus what? Plus Piano XD XD XD)
Saw a Quadrasynth recently. Great idea!
@@AudioPilz after all, who needs a resonant filter?? Wait... Everyone? What do you mean, everyone?? Ah damnit!!
I was at first enchanted by sound development in MC505, the thought of uploading a sample of my own was what I desired. Now with TR8s, 6s, MC707, 101, the possibility is now a played out option. I cannot help but still wish though, to be able to do that on the 505. I could never format samples in the exact PCM format that Roland specified, or even send it streaming to load it over MIDI. Stacking those patches up gets to be overwhelming, and they'll really mangle frequencies and over saturate them. This can really work like a charm on a cassette tape sometimes. Most of my efforts would yield muddy synth parts with drums that were all too crispy and present to a flaw. Still other times, and usually while making a collaborative effort, it could be miraculous.
До сих пор мой самый любимый инструмент! Как в студии, так и на концертах)
😀
YES! That was my pub gig keyboard! Truly dope axe. It was really hard wearing, it got dropped, punters spilled beer on it, a trumpeter emptied her spit valve on it numerous times. It lasted me 10 years and when it finally croaked it was like losing a family member.
My deepest condolences 🥺
In each video you make I get so anxious that I'm missing a little funny detail and I probably missed some in the previous videos so I have to watch all of them in a row.
Thanks for paying attention to the details❤️
Good info in a very entertaining package. Thank you again for sharing!
Thank you so much!
Love your channel! Keep up the excellent content!
Thanks!
Sehr schön gemacht. Hat mir gefallen, wie du dich in die Gemälde eingebracht hast.
Besten Dank!
absolutely pro editing skills, i love you man
Thank you!
After not being able to wrap my head around a DAW, I started experimenting with groove boxes. this was the one that really clicked with me, and I was able to bang out my first couple of songs with this. I was pleased to see you found some value in it too! Great assessment and music!
Thank you!
this is an excellent composition tool for sure
Same here, I just can't seem to sell it and I just want to keep using it as my blank canvas for ideas.
LOL!! I am in your video. At the beginning, with the ’505 and again as one of the “90’s producers”. LOL so long since I’ve seen that. Thank you for making this one. Cheers
It's a pleasure and an honor, Sir! Nice to have you around!
Love your vids bro always keep me entertained.
Thank you so much!
I am in the process of moving and found a mint condition JX-305 in the back of my closet, I'm loving it!
Nice!!!
I really enjoyed the jams this week, didn't realise that there was a 505 lurking in that keyboard. I had mistaken it for a bit of a toy in the past and didn't understand why it was so expensive.
It started all that planned obsolence stuff;)
I knew a guy who said he bought a JX-305 from Craigslist. I had never heard of it and he seemed regretful about his purchase so I told him "whoa the JX-305? That synth is awesome!!" in an effort to make him feel better. It was going alright until I went too far and said it was second only to the Jupiter 8. Then he realized I was talking shit and got mad 😔
Yeah, you really pushed you luck there ;)
I bought one of these 22 years ago and I can't remember the last time I used any of the sounds (until recently I've been mostly ITB; since about 2001) BUT the keybed saved the JX305 from being sold off. For me, this synth's keyboard feels and performs like a synth keyboard should. Of the 15+ keyboard synths I own, spanning over 40 years of composing electronic music, the JX305's keybed nails it.
The JX305's keybed and a fully weighted 88 key Casio Privia keybed (yup, you read that right) are my goto performance tools for when the playing has to "feel right". YMMV.
Yeah, after keybed nightmares like the Novation XIO this was a breath of fresh air
+ 1! Still in use and the sense when you are playing on this keyboards is just a perfect!
Jo I was thinking of that Ben Jordan when I saw the title.
Well done Mr AudioPilz, as usually. (:
Thank you so much!
I miss my JX and I wouldn’t mind having one just for nostalgia, but not at the current market rate.
Yeah, those prices are insane!
Your content is making lockdown in Melbourne fly by!!
Happy to hear that. Stay safe down under!
I am waiting on the UA-cam algorithm to find you and your awesome content and that we see your subs explode... it is just a matter of time!
Thanks!
excellent video as always my man
Thanks!
Classic video format. Best video format. 10/10
Thanks!
Man, full-size keyboard with aftertouch and pedal ports mixed with a groove box is such an unusual combination.
Yeah, this could have been really good 😂
Seems it could be a good keybed to play other synths/modules, but not sure since it was mentioned MIDI implementation on this wasn't great
Loving those damned so bright bits Florian, such sounds are great, overlaid on any mid-range muddy mush (affectionately known as 'warmth').
Yeah, great in a setup, can be quite frustrating on its own
The JX-305 is all over the early M83 records, especially the “Dead Cities...” album - the supersaw is all over it. Also the ‘Film Octaves’ patch. Great video!
Centrepiece of this gig; ua-cam.com/video/NYo6hk-3vcc/v-deo.html
Thanks!
Love to you and Alex. Always awesome. And I always get tempted. That Zoom pedal. Hmmm....
Thanks! The zoom is a cheap and powerful multi FX
02:20 I like that you don't even bother to close the crash report XD
I can't remember the last time it DIDN'T crash😂
Urmurgurg! So happy to see the 305! It might be bad gear , but it’s my baby! Love this series!
Thanks!
OMGOMGOMG YOURE COVERING THIS YESSSS I CAN'T WAIT - also THAT PIANO PATCH IS GODLY, I LOVE THAT PIANO SOUND
will you cover the one with the built in speakers?
It had to happen. EG-101? It won't be able to escape!
@@AudioPilz heck YES ^o^ You rule AP!!!
@@drsynthpattern cool, i went to check it out and you are all about the rompler electronica i adore, subbed!
I´ve read a lot of bad critics to this synth, but I don´t share most of them. It´s true that presets paths and patterns are terrible, however this unit has a lot of sound editing posibilities, pretty decent sequencer, nice arpeggiators.. Preset drumkits sound really flat, but after working a little bit on them you can turn them into something acceptable.
After using software and vsts for a long time, I was really pleased by the workflow of this synth. I have had the Roland JX-305 for 20 years, but I haven´t played with it since I think 2006 so there were some faulty knobs and buttons, the screen was almost not readable and a lot of missing areas of blue paint in the aluminum front panel. I decided to try bringing it back to full power -and beauty-; I repainted it, replaced broken elements and then.. I suddenly had a new toy, so I used it. In my profile I have just shared the first test in a while.
Yeah, it really shines when you get used to the workflow!
I am lucky enough to have a JX-305 and the arps are easy to program, also the quality of the keyboard and the response of the keyboard is important so that the sync is not lost.I have it synced with a JUPITER Xm and it works perfectly. In my channel you can listen to several JX305 arps programmed by me.
Great overview!
I feel like people's love affair with trackers is comparable to how I feel about this thing's sequencer. If the overall unit had a tad bit more CPU/RAM I'd still be using it on occasion, but there's a major "MIDI lag" when you get into the weeds. Cheers!
Thanks!
I`ve found tracker interface that sends MIDI to be very intuitive sequencers for analog gear
Benn Jordan came to mind right when I saw this thing, but I had no idea it was the same synth?! His was so filthy and covered in stickers Haha! It has amazing potential but I imagine you would need to really devote a considerable amount of time learning how to use it thoroughly to get your money's worth.
Yeah, you habe to put the nose to the grindstone with this one
I used a Jx-305 as my main sequencer for years and I still have no fucking idea how Benn Jordan programmed his drums like that!
That modern Sherlock Holmes series is awesome, might need to watch it again. Thanks for reminding me Florian!
Another great video! I saw one of these a few years back for about $250 american, didn't grab it then, but now I wish I did.
Thanks! I have to admit that I prefer the D2
I love my 305. Had to resolder the flash roms though, because the SMD production quality at the time sucked. Now the display has to be replaced, which is not a big problem.
I've read some comments from people who fixed the display with an iron (not a soldering one;)
Lol thanks for featuring this one. My very first synth! I actually sold this for £100 more than I paid for it. :)
Thanks for watching! Yeah, the prices on this one really went up
I love the arpeggiator and did external sequencing with my JX. Favorite keyboard of all time. Highly underrated.
Nice!!!
you are a genuine star of UA-cam... Well done!
Thank you so much!!!
@@AudioPilz I'd love to see Good Gear Show starting with Roland JP-8080
Omg I hate youtube didn't notify me damn great video
Bad YT! ;) Thanks!
Just hooked mine back up the arpegg accent is amazingly good for hi hats i midi it up to my MPC LIVE 2 to do hi 🧢s. Synth sounds are good after tweaking and adding fxs. And your right the 808 and 909 kits are still usable. Glad you took time out to review my first piece of gear I got back at Sweetwater in 1999 . I bought it and the sales rep told me it didn’t even loop beats .😂👊🏾
Not watched all your videos, but I'm getting there. Have to say I always liked the sound of the mc505, so not surprised the JX305 appeals to me. Does very good deep and dubby techno
Agreed! Offers some smooth 90s techno flavor
some days ago i saw one of these on marketplace now i know why i don't have to bought it , very nice video I would like to see some Micron Alesis series
Thanks! The next Micron I run into (for a reasonable price) is mine
We need Bad Gear albums of all end demo songs. That song at 3:21 is so good, the string pianos added a very nice touch.
Thank you so much!!! Great idea!
What a great video-work
Thanks!
Great series 👍🏼
Thanks!
After falling down a rabbit hole of late 90s/early 00s Trance and immensely enjoying it, I love these sounds. I wouldn't be surprised if this thing was used on at least 50% of Trance tunes made at that time. The sound selection is tight, and I can hear how the patches could easily mix together. It sounds like Roland designed this with instant usability in mind.
The level of focus and care put into the sound design and curation here is awesome. And this is coming from someone who has used and listened to quite a few different synthesizers and ROMplers.
Thank you so much!!!
@@AudioPilz Yeah man, thanks for the classy review and sharing your fun with it :)
all these vids are bangers, nice tunes too
Thank you!
That was cool, I didn't really it was sample based preset based. Reminds me a little of that first Yamaha djx keyboard the blue one. Quite liked you in the painting that was very cool too, you're video are always fun, a bit educational and but totally entertaining and make me laugh.
Thanks!
Ooh, there's another keyboard I'd like Bad Gear to review, the original Yamaha DJX! As many things as I detest about it, I just can't bring myself to sell it. I actually bought it for my kids when Yamaha was blowing them out, so they wouldn't use my good keyboards. Now my grown-up "kids" love to sit down and do primitive sampling with it and love playing around it! It feels like a party toy. Please consider reviewing this one!
I love that AP pays painters to paint him.... work of art.
❤️❤️❤️
Thanks for the video!
Thanks for watching!
Saudades desse synth. Um amigo tinha um. Ele usava o sequencer para tocar vários estilos musicais. Muito bom.
Sim, realmente versátil
Love your uploads! Please review the Spectralis 2, not because it sounds bad, no because of the horrible err, I mean particular workflow. Best sounding groovebox ever though.
Thanks. Great idea but hard to come by in my area
Awesome video
Thank you so much!
The only thing better than a Bad Gear episode is a Bad Gear episode featuring gear that I own.
That's what I am thinking all the time ;)
AudioPilz hahahahahaha!!!!!
Had one for quite a few years and it was a blast. My favorite feature was that patterns could be 32 measures long.
Nice!!!
I'd love to see an episode where the JX-305 goes head to head with the Yamaha DJX! Even an episode on the original DJX keyboard would be great.
So true. Almost impossible to find an OG DJX around here, unfortunately
I ended up watching this video because someone not to far from me had one for sale for $100 US. He had it up for sale for about 2 months before I took a shot at it and went to buy it this past weekend. It is in absolute mint condition except it is missing 5 knobs and the power supply. So for that I ended up buying it for $70 US. I just ordered the power supply. The guy told me his brother used it a year ago. Crossing my fingers it still works. Will update when I get the power supply in the mail.
Nice find. Cool price!
@@AudioPilz Thank you. Here's my update. Just got back from vacation and received my new power supply for the JX-305. I powered it up. The only thing wrong is that it will need a new screen which that will be another hunt. Other than that, it sounds amazing and everything works. No scratchy pots or anything. This thing really sounds amazing and it is definitely a sleeper synth. I bought it for the hell of it and it is a keeper. It will definitely be used in my future productions. Thanks again for your video
Dude the video for "lo-fi beats to be in paintings to" was so trippy
Thanks!
Cool videos, dude! Also living and Vienna and making music :)
Thanks!
I have an infatuation with anything related to the ROland MC Series - please keep it going - anyone here like the odd ball MC - 307 - I love thang dang thing
Also the show is killer entertainment ... but I think you might be driving up the prices on all this old gear on ebay - Reverb
Thanks but I think your overestimating the reach of this channel. 307 would be next in line of the MC family
Love your videos, and this one was awesome as well! Though all this talk about bad gear just makes me want to buy the bad gear. And since it's priced badly, my salary is too bad for that :D
Thanks! I know, this one is VERY expensive...
That's a nice little groove!
Thank you!
Had one of these keyboards and loved it
Cool!!!
You, son of a gun. Of course I also owned this one back in the late 90s. I sold it in 2001 but I still miss that RPS arp thing. About 10 years ago I bought a used MC-505 trying to recapture that 90s nostalgia. The 505 pads were faulty and there was no magic. So I returned it. Wish I had kept the JX-305 though!
Thanks! It's funny, all those instruments based on the MC505 engine have a completely different feel
I live mine. Its my master keyboard. The synth engine is actually pretty decent. Jv2080 based. So you can program some decent sounds. I used the mc303 before and this is a replacement so i got all the awesome arps and grooves. Needed to service the keyboard and will put in a new lcd. So much fun and so usable.
Yeah, great master keyboard
Not sure how much you guys would appreciate this, but supposedly MIA's first album "Arular" was made by her only using the MC-505 (though it was then produced by Diplo, so who knows how much it was changed in production. I haven't ever read up on it beyond hearing this somewhere when the album first dropped). I'm a big fan of the sounds on this groovebox when used for that kind of music. Dirty and 90s-style digital works well for it.
Cool, didn't know!
Loooooove MIA 😍
@@angh3ll202 That first album is the best.
Great video.
Now it is almost mandatory that you showcase a Roland EG-101 too! :D
Thanks! I'd need a truck and two bodybuilders to get it over to my place;)
@@AudioPilz Lol, it's not that heavy again, only around 11kg or so, so not completely unmanageable :P Unless the bodybuilders are to protect it from thieves :D
I had forgotten about this keyboard version of the MC-505. I had the MC-505 and it had some nice features for the time and the sound set wasn't too bad. I figured out the sequencer pretty quickly and it was easy to put together tracks. So it was a solid piece of gear and a much needed improvement over the MC-303.
Ooh you are edging ever closer to my absolute jam.... GROOVESTATIONS
One in particular?
@@AudioPilz Haha I was talking about the pretty niche I guess Roland SP808EX. I just love that turn of the century all-in-one vibe, before DAWs took over. Not really sure that it's worth a video tbh for a basic monosynth and sampler (although the laser theremin is fun).
Hey AudioPilz, it's Rocco. Really enjoyed that video on the Roland keyboard. I guess if there's anything you need from me, just let me know. I assume that's how UA-cam works. Anyway, hope all is well with you.
Thank you so much!
Bad Gear is more than just a funny video series. It's about the journey we're on. We all succumb to Bad Gear at some point in our music-making journey, sometimes due to hyped up marketing claims, sometimes due to a lack of belief in ourselves that keeps in the realm of budget gear... sometimes because it seemed like a good idea at the time. I've been grappling with Bad Gear for about 20 years now. And that's OK :)
True enlightenment only comes from using Bad Gear ;)
Not me I always believed in myself and didn’t spend much time in the bad gear era
Geeze....how is it i owned so many of the synths you review....smh.
Another great video!
Thanks!
New York's hottest club is RONALD. It's got everything! It's got keys, drums, midi, swoopty boopties, you know it's that thing of where you swoop your hand and it goes BOOP
What is a human kite?
BGMTSGA!! does it again!! Great video very entertaining!!👍👽
Thanks!
AudioPilz my highlight of the week!!👍👽
Great Job
Thanks!
The Groovesynth is one of those keyboards I just can't bring myself to let go. Sure, the display is shot (okay it works for awhile after the "ironing trick"), a lot of the preset sounds are dated (it is almost 25 years old), and parts are impossible to come by, but.....there is an editor (aptly named "Groovebox Editor") which helps you get around the board a bit easier, so that's a plus. Perhaps I am a simpleton, but I love the feel of the key bed. When I bought mine most of the knobs were missing and even those are kind of expensive to replace. A lot of the factory patches are on the "bright" side but that's easily rectified with a couple of knob turns. There is not much intuitive about it....the manual is typical Roland (I've had college courses with smaller text books)....I still have "oh, so that's how you do that" moments with it on a regular basis. This is one of the only synths I have that I can turn on, and within 5 minutes have cobbled together something that I consider to be music. Not sure what that says about me or my synth purchases but it is what it is. Keeping in mind that this thing is closing in on 25 years old and none of us look or sound as good as we did 25 years ago, I think the Groovesynth has held up well. I'm keeping mine.
Ah, you're in Benn Jordan mode with this one;)
it works for awhile after the "ironing trick"
FYI, if it breaks again after a short while it means the iron wasn't hot enough.
I have an MC-505 stacked on top of my JV-1080 ( the only Roland module I actually bought through personal choice! ).
The MC-505 did belong to one of my Uncles but he broke the Quantize dial, because the defect pot control took the
value off of it he gave it to my older brother as a Christmas present back in 1999 but in 2007 my brother let me have it
as he knew I would have more use for it.
The MC-505 sound set actually offers plenty of usable synth sounds, it has decent pads, synth leads and bass sounds
as well as a generous portion of traditional instrument sounds. The drums are pretty decent, the TR-909 drums are
better than many VSTs as well as the TR-808 and CR-78 drums. The Jazz kit is also decent enough to use in 70s
style music ( well maybe back in 2007 ). Overall the MC-505 is a pretty good sound module with plenty of synthesis
filters/capabilities. I certainly prefer my MC-505 to the other products like the D2 or the JX-305. Maybe I think so
highly of the MC-505 because it was my first "real synthesizer" when I didn't even know what a DAW or VST is.
But seriously there's no need for some people to be so vulgar, just say you don't like it and leave it at that.
Planning an episode about comparing as many instruments with the MC505 engine as possible
@@AudioPilz still in the works it seems? 🤔
4:36 cracked me up so much
I hope Monet will forgive me;)
The buttons and pots remind me of my "new"ly aqquired Roland RS-70 from 2003. which is a fantastic piece of bad gear, too. A Juno, just better, and cheaper. Especially today, since nobody knows its secret - that it's the better Juno^^ and yes it has D-Beam, I just don't know why that has to exist... Roland took it off the shelfs after only one year when they introduced their next Juno for "a bit" more money. Capitalists! xD
Criminally good video once again Pilz :-)
Thanks!
You're intro tune reminds me of the preset A01 off the MC303. Those distorted guitar chords kill me. Besides that, keep up the good work :)
There's actually an intro tune version based on the MC-303 A01 (and it's always produced with the gear of the episode)
@@AudioPilz i know. That shit gave me nightmares. lol
Haha ! Great again ! The tribute to the classical painting is wonderful ! Congratulations ! I found a old piece of gear in a garage sale this week, à Roland D-5, and it sounds... well, probably the worst of the early digital synthesis of this years (1989). Lot’s of artefacts and noises. Barely usable, not even cheesy... just. Huuuu. Could be a candidate ;) Cheers !
Thanks! There will be about half a year of episodes in total about those digital black Roland boxes in the future ;)
AudioPilz well for sure... and if you add the billion of low coast Yamaha, Casio, korg plastic synth, you will have a whole life of bad gears shows ! But the early ones are interesting, they where introduced as new technology, that will change and improve the world of music. But they sounds like old farts... well done technology ! after the first ones, they made a lot of clones of those, because it was very cheap to build, and finished to ruin synthesis creation... but I have sympathy for the prototype of this poor sounds machines.
Be good to see you map some virtual instruments up to a midi controller and give your opinion on how it compares to the physical instrument. Cool video as always Audio Pillz
Great idea! Problem is: virtual instrument have become really good ;)
@@AudioPilz Ha Ha Hardware vs Software r u ready to rumble lol