"In really excellent shape with all controls and sounds working, the Source features a 37-note keyboard, and two VCOs that can be selected among three waveforms and three octaves. The memory is capable of holding 16 presets. Programmed presets can be saved to an audio cassette interface to free up the onboard memory for additional new patches. The 24dB/octave VCF has parameters for keyboard tracking, cutoff frequency, resonance, and envelope amount. There are two ADSR envelope generators that can be set in single or multi trigger modes, one for the VCF and one for the VCA. For modulation, the Source features LFO and sample and hold. The unit also features a rudimentary sequencer."
"Just a quick capture of a new track I'm working on.
The low, tom-like percussive sounds are from the DPO.
The vocal sample is John Siracusa trapped in the Phonogene. Mysteron is responsible for this sharper toned melody while the Telharmonic plays the main melody.
Moog Prodigy on bass. xKong Electribe plays closed hats and snare."
"Just a small demo showing how you can expand the pro2 with analog vco's from an mfb osc-3. By using just 1 module, a ton of new possibilities open up. A few basic sounds are demoed here, not a musical statement."
"Just downloaded the trial of Roland System-100 plugout and thought I'd experiment with 'wrenching' it around using real-time automation and automation envelopes in Live. Love this thing - woot!"
"Testing the presets of brandnew ROLAND JD-XA. BANK B.
Using arpeggios and preset sequences if there are any preprogrammed. Tweaking occasionally. JD-XA does not contain any drum kits as its smaller and cheaper sibling is providing. If there are any drums to be heard they're mostly programmed from scratch with the internal sound engines -- both digital and analog.
More thoughts about the synth:
Many options. But it is a little bit the JD800 problem: the basic sound is quickly edited but the fine tuning takes hours because you have to step thru hundreds of parameters in a 2-line-display (without dial!!!).
No computer editor!
The sequencer is almost the same as in JD-Xi with the same flaws. It crashes frequently and it DOES NOT TRANSPOSE! I hope Roland will fix and implement this with the next update.
About the integration of digital and analog section: The routing is a bit confusing to me but once you managed to lea a digital sound through the analog section it sounds very nice. The digital waves are also well chosen and sounding. For understanding the concept: There are two synths -- one digital, one analog -- that only share the housing and the FX. As a consequence you cannot choose a digital waveform in your analog synth you can only lead a complete sound of the digital machine through the analog section for sound enhancement.
But all in all it is a versatile well sounding synth!"
"In really excellent shape with all controls and sounds working, the Source features a 37-note keyboard, and two VCOs that can be selected among three waveforms and three octaves. The memory is capable of holding 16 presets. Programmed presets can be saved to an audio cassette interface to free up the onboard memory for additional new patches. The 24dB/octave VCF has parameters for keyboard tracking, cutoff frequency, resonance, and envelope amount. There are two ADSR envelope generators that can be set in single or multi trigger modes, one for the VCF and one for the VCA. For modulation, the Source features LFO and sample and hold. The unit also features a rudimentary sequencer."
