This thing is going to make a lot of people very happy. Multi-timbral, tons of voices, hands-on control, fun sequencer/arp stuff going on, classic sounds or weirdo sounds depending on your mood.
Good job, Roland.
10 Likes
Roland in a nutshell.
four assignable parameter mod matrix from the brief demos iâve watched (but sounds like maybe not every available parameter is assignable in the matrix)
1 Like
Yes, under Button 12.
What a time to have banned oneself from YouTube 
4 Likes
Itâs a shame itâs not class compliant or MPC could use it as a sound card.
2 Likes
Ohh, am I the first to say âOP-1 Killerâ 
no FM radio 
2 Likes
Sounding good has always been Rolandâs strength. Being fun to use is another story, but this looks like theyâre taking big steps in the right direction there too.
5 Likes
I can see this being great for ambient stuff.
1 Like
Probably both? I havenât watched all the videos all the way through, but I kind of wonder if itâll be like the JD-Xi which has a âprogramâ that initially sets the voices/patches for all parts and thenâŚ
âŚyou send bank change / program change messages on the part MIDI channel to switch individual partsâ patches. Roland has multitimbrality figured out. 
1 Like
Donât know how the MIDI PGM changes work on this one, but itâs got roughly the same thing going on with Patterns (/Programs) containing Tones/patches, but in contrast to the JD-Xi you can actually save the patches on their own, and the patterns refer to the saved patch instead of them being local for every pattern (like the JD-Xi programs). This is exciting and is one of the issues I have with the JD-Xi.
1 Like
Joking aside, those visual Arps are very âOP-1â with X/Y tilt, real physics stuff like gravity- - Bounce, Bubble, Pong (that a real pong game !) , Orbit etcâŚ
Seems like a good idea to move away from âaccurate emulations â of previous gear
After multiple attempts on boutiques / plug outs etc theyâre still failing.
This seems reasonable , but that polyphony will get eaten very quickly ( if itâs anything like mc101 even basic noodle started to cut off notes )
707 is the centerpiece of most of my jams; the mixer, the sampler, the sequencer / controller, the fx box and some of the synths.
So an update wonât deliver that on this one.
But itâs a good move from Roland.
Does it do multitimbral outs over USB when recording?
what I find crazy: the Roland sound doesnât appeal to me at all. MC707, MC101, boutiques⌠all sound meh⌠kind of uninspiring and cheap to me.
and yet probably 98% of all songs I love are made with Roland synthesizers or emulations of them.
On the other hand, a synthesizer like the Vermona Perfourmer sounds absolutely brilliant, inspiring, alive to me. But when i listen to songs made with this synth, all of itâs magic is goneâŚ
10 Likes
Only to a pc/mac by the looks of itâŚ
If it was multi out to iOS or class compliant Iâd have to think seriously but nah 
to spend so much time and money designing a new product and fitting it with the most unattractive buttons and switches just puts me off. Why skimp on the part where the user is interacting with the machine the most?
3 Likes
It lacks Analog parts, though.