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The Official Roland V-Synth GT Thread


Post Posted Wed May 30, 2007 1:13 pm
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Well, after a couple of weeks weighing up my options, to the disbelief of the wife (she's getting the whole house decorated with the rest of my savings, and a holiday), I have opted for the NEW Roland V-Synth GT. I have placed my order for one this morning and I think I had a pretty good deal - £1,695 (RRP £2,199) after much haggling. As there are non in this country as-of-yet being a new product, the earliest shipping will be mid June for mine. Damn, I'm excited :peacemaan:

Check out the NAMM 2007 video for the GT

http://www.roland.co.uk/synth_room_catd ... D=vsynthGT

Just click on "video demo" - damn sweet

I was looking into the original V-Synth last year, even though I would have made a good saving, I would not have been happy with it as the GT appeals more to me, for not only sounds, performace and looks. I really hated the look of the silver plastic bezel around the V-Synth's screen. The GT however looks far better, and not to mention the colour screen.

Also, as you know, the GT is basically "2" V-Synths in one keyboard, V-Synth & V-Synth XT (with VC-1 Roland D50 card), with Rolands new AP (Articulative Phrase) synthesis, vocal designer, sound shaper II and Elastic Audio Synthesis engine, all built in.

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Post Posted Wed May 30, 2007 1:15 pm
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Woot~! Congrats..>! :D
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Post Posted Wed May 30, 2007 1:30 pm
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Thanks GeeJee :fine:

If Jarre doesn't get his hands on one of these, Francis should, if not already.
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"A group of men and woman entered the laboratory one month ago to live in a smell free world. Body odour, sweaty arms pits and smelly feet are to create the energy to survive. A total mystery surrounds this experiment, and it's project code name: B.O and Smell'i "
Post Posted Wed May 30, 2007 2:55 pm
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Yeah, congrats! I'm not a huge lover of expensive synths though (mainly because I find they do too much and I don't have the money!) but I do like the look of this one!
Post Posted Wed May 30, 2007 2:58 pm
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Congratulations....Will look forward to a more indepth review once you get it,good price as well,I was gonna look at one but the price seemed a little expensive and I would have rather bought a Voyager for that price...but if you got it for just under 1700 thats a good deal..

I'll wait till the shops have one in and go and take a demo of it, I was pretty impressed with the original V synth,even though it passed almost un-noticed to me until last year,but the mk2 looks even more appealing :lol:
Post Posted Wed May 30, 2007 4:25 pm
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I've always been very interested in the V-synth, so I wanna check this one out. Here it's release is in June I thought. Congrats man! :D (and don't forget to post the demos!) 8)
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Post Posted Wed May 30, 2007 5:18 pm
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Jarp2600 wrote: (and don't forget to post the demos!) 8)
Certainly will.
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Post Posted Wed May 30, 2007 5:39 pm
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Many congrats, damn, you have bought a nice stuff :P
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Post Posted Wed May 30, 2007 6:09 pm
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Congrats! May you have a nice time with it when it arrives :P It will be nice to hear some demos sometime.
Post Posted Wed Jun 06, 2007 3:03 pm
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Not long to go, hopefully.
Jarre concerts attended - Destination Docklands 1988 - Paris La Defense 1990 - Europe In Concert 1993 (Manchester & London) - Oxygene Tour 1997 (Birmingham)

"A group of men and woman entered the laboratory one month ago to live in a smell free world. Body odour, sweaty arms pits and smelly feet are to create the energy to survive. A total mystery surrounds this experiment, and it's project code name: B.O and Smell'i "
Post Posted Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:26 pm
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Most excellent..... Couldn't get the video link to work though, dammit !

Will be interested in your opinion of it and some demos' of course. :D

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Post Posted Fri Jun 08, 2007 1:47 pm
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The Roland site says "shipping July" for the U.K, but I have just checked with 'Turnkey' (who I brough it from) and they're taking stock of it on the 18th June. So just over 2 weeks to go.
Jarre concerts attended - Destination Docklands 1988 - Paris La Defense 1990 - Europe In Concert 1993 (Manchester & London) - Oxygene Tour 1997 (Birmingham)

"A group of men and woman entered the laboratory one month ago to live in a smell free world. Body odour, sweaty arms pits and smelly feet are to create the energy to survive. A total mystery surrounds this experiment, and it's project code name: B.O and Smell'i "
Post Posted Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:19 am
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Hopefully, I should be receiving my GT this week. If it's still on schedule, they should be arriving in the U.K from Japan today.
Jarre concerts attended - Destination Docklands 1988 - Paris La Defense 1990 - Europe In Concert 1993 (Manchester & London) - Oxygene Tour 1997 (Birmingham)

"A group of men and woman entered the laboratory one month ago to live in a smell free world. Body odour, sweaty arms pits and smelly feet are to create the energy to survive. A total mystery surrounds this experiment, and it's project code name: B.O and Smell'i "
Post Posted Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:21 am
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Geez man.. I envy you. Severely... :D
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Post Posted Mon Jun 18, 2007 11:40 am
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Slightly OT - I remember cracking the pre-NAMM .swf teaser from Roland website - I extracted full resolution images and posted on motifator.com - it spreaded across synth forums within 3 minutes... ;]

Congrats on your purchase. It's good they kept the D50 engine - inital speculations suggested that it won't be available.







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