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Roland VariOS Open System Module

Up to 300 seconds of mono samples. 40 multi-effects. 8 chorus types. 9 reverbs.

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Roland VariOS Open System Module Customer Review submitted June 6, 2006

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Feature: I bought this mainly for the TB-303, Jupiter 8, and D-50 emulations. I just didn't think the V-Producer would be too useful to me. You can't sample into the unit, the sample memory is tiny (around 20 MBytes), and loading samples into and out of it is involved. That's what I thought, but I was wrong. It's a lot easier than you might think, and can easily be integrated with other recording equipment you might already have. The V-Producer is especially good at bringing boring, old samples back to life. You can make a piano backing track, for example, sound like a cat in a back alley, or a high pitched organ track sound like a bunch of hens in a chicken coup - simply by changing the formant of the sounds and adding a pitch LFO. The thing is amazing, and very intuitive. It also sounds very professional. Overall: It's amazing what you can do with this thing. You can load in a bunch of different samples, all recorded at different tempos, modify, and mix them up into a track that sounds completely different from anything ever heard, all without using any of your computer's resources. Not only can you do all of this, you can also use to play emulations of a TB-303, a Jupiter 8, and a D-50. The Jupiter and D-50 absolutely rock. The Jupiter is the fattest sounding synth I have ever heard... period!!! It even blows the TB-303 away ('cause it has two oscillatores, not just one). The presets on the D-50 sound so good, I've never even needed to program my own. The D-50 vc-1 card comes with the original factory banks and the four other banks of 64 presets commercially available and produced by Roland for the original D-50. It's not free but worth the $200 it cost, since it could cost upwards of $400 to buy a used one, and this one fits into a memory card the size of a credit card. The marvels of modern technolog!!!
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