Friday, January 03, 2025
Bad Gear - The Legendary D-50
video upload by AudioPilz
"Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world’s most-hated audio tools. Every now and then this show needs some blasphemy, a little slap in the face of iconic music history milestones and one of these 'he’s obviously trolling' moments true Bad Gear fans crave at least once a year.
Today we are going to talk about the legendary D-50. This LA synth and Roland’s answer to the Yamaha DX7 not only had a huge impact on the sound aesthetics of the late 80s, it is also still relevant for Enya Orinoco Flow Covers, creating high end General Midi Kontakt Libraries, channeling your Reagan Era soap opera PTSD AND I might have a point here…
Chapters:
00:00 Intro tune
01:02 Overview Roland D-50
01:11 WTF is Linear Arithmetic Synthesis ???
01:57 Virtual Analog before we called it that way
02:32 Splits and other Multitimbral Pleasures
02:48 Effects (Reverb, Chorus, Chase)
03:05 Idiosyncrasies of an 80s Synth
03:24 The Joystick
03:40 Controllers, Flagship Synth Features
04:04 Presets ( Fantasia , Pizzagogo , Soundtrack )
04:23 What Else??? (Pricing, Thanks,...)
04:46 Hate Screen
05:12 Jam 1 ( LoFi Beats )
06:03 Jam 2 ( Elektro )
07:10 Finale ( Epic Techno )
07:40 Verdict"
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