Mike, you did all those sounds playing yourself, or are they little demo files included for auditioning purposes?

Very nice idiomatic playing, anyway....

Any chance of you running the Purgatory Creek file through the main piano (at 192kbps MP3)?

Fran, thanks for the heads-up on the file limitations of the SC (gee, I use that abbreviation for my Sound Canvas too). File allocation seems to be Roland's biggest hurdle. I know I can save a truckload of songs on memory card, but all in one folder; not the best for me. The Y's can handle all kinds of files and folders - that's one nice thing.

If anyone gets a work-around the Sonic Cell limitations or even the G,E limitations let us know.

Cass, what file limitation on the G70..I do not know of one..

Fran glad your now enjoying the
Roland Sonic Cell sounds looks a winner for sure!

Fran,
If you put in the SRX board called Complete Orchestra, it contains the vocal collection from the original SRJV boards and this has the scat voices on it.


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Mike,
from the little samples I heard from your file, (which I have to thank you for posting), the SC sounds good (to my ears of course). I can't tell it it sounds as good as a G-70 or an E-series, but good enough....
I'll try to give the complete file a listen this weekend.

Anyone else has an opinion on the sounds?

With the G70 you can have as many files in a folder as your memory can handle, but you cannot make subfolders or new folders. For instance, you can save 2000 SMFs in the song folder but you can't arrange them in folders like oldies, dinner, ceremony, novelty, rock, swing, etc. What you can do is edit the database so that songs fit a particular genre - which I guess, serves the same purpose. The Yamaha OS permits you to move your files exactly as you may have them saved on our PC, in the original folders - sort of saves some time and trouble. That's all...

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cassp, we've already talked about the way you can achieve similar functionality using UPSs, a way to gather 192 songs of ANY kind into one category, and the Index feature of the database.

Just because something doesn't do something the EXACT same way as Yamaha, as long as you can achieve a similar result... seems fair to me.

For every feature that Roland makes a BIT different or more complicated, there are at least equal number that Roland make FAR easier (style and SMF editing, for one... use those, ever?).

So far, Yamaha seem no more interested in grabbing all of Roland's good ideas and incorporating them than Roland are in revamping to be more Yamaha-like. And that is a good thing, IMO... I don't trust them not to throw the baby out with the bath-water..!

Vive la difference!