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#152764 - 05/18/06 05:26 PM
Re: G1000 demo songs/arranger/realtime
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Registered: 05/26/99
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Loc: Levittown, Pa, USA
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#152774 - 05/19/06 11:28 AM
Re: G1000 demo songs/arranger/realtime
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Registered: 04/25/05
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Loc: NW Florida
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David Bowie always managed to use the Stylophone creatively....... Music comes from the musician, not the instrument (thank God!)
Somehow, Roland have lost their way, only using overproduced SMFs to demonstrate their arrangers, rather than what proved to be a very successful strategy in the past, and hiring very talented players to show what you can do in arranger mode.
As this thread demonstrates, you can get a lot of people impressed by a finely played demonstration of even 10yr old technology, even in the face of much more modern keyboards. The difference isn't in the keyboard, it's in the player!
Imagine what a good G70/E80 demo, done the same way as the G1000 demo, would do to the opinions of Roland's current line, which suffers from only being heard played in arranger mode by ourselves rather than a truly great player!
I had (still have, actually) a G1000 for 7 or 8 years, and I can positively say that the G70 is light years ahead of it, soundwise, but you would never know it from Roland's demos. They are overproduced to the point of disbelief, and desperately need a good realtime demonstrator to convince the doubters..........
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An arranger is just a tool. What matters is what you build with it..!
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#152776 - 05/19/06 12:20 PM
Re: G1000 demo songs/arranger/realtime
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Registered: 05/26/99
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Loc: Levittown, Pa, USA
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Diki, Roland has a stable full of good musicians that demo their gear. Over the past twenty years, I have known and met many of their great demonstrators..Going way back to the Eric Persing, John Campbell days..
Roland can definitely, still put together a great realtime demo if they choosed to do so..
Likewise, all the major companies has personnel to do the same..
I think for the most part, companies rely on SMF's ..they show what the instruments sound like in an easy to show way..
Since most arranger market customers are home players[don't doubt this to be true including the Tyros2], rather than a pro market[BTW the G800 series was the first line that was geared towards the pro market and not the home market].. It looks now that Roland and the Other companies too, are content with the home market..
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