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#24768 - 05/16/00 01:01 PM
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Thanks for the reply al, i think you are right about mixing, when you have 4-5 instruments playing together with the drums they sound ok i would say, but the problem is when you have Drums & bass only, you get to notice that the sound is kind of ...irritating... it's not realistic enough for me, especially the snares, (except maybe the picolo snare). You said you brother has the DM5, is it any better? Would you say that it's more realistic, how better is it you think (in a scale of 1 to 10 how much would you give to the roland and how much to the DM5). And please...dont tell me to go and buy the Bass and drums expansion card..... thanks.
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#24769 - 05/28/00 01:25 PM
Re: dRUMZ
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Registered: 04/24/00
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Loc: U.K
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i think you are right about mixing, when you have 4-5 instruments playing together with the drums they sound ok i would say, but the problem is when you have Drums & bass only,
get a drummer? FX? errm, there's a limit to what can be achieved by a sampled sound, i either mike up Alex on his real kit, or Fx the buggery out of everything
You said you brother has the DM5, is it any better? Would you say that it's more realistic, how better is it you think (in a scale of 1 to 10 how much would you give to the roland and how much to the DM5).
Like I said there's a limit to how good a sampled sound can be. You also have to be aware that a live kit has the acoustics of the room, and the acual drums have 'sweet spots' no two hits are the same, so there's a constant change in the sound, even my brother's dm5 triggered from pads isn't as realistic as his real kit. The best thing you can do is stack up Reverb, and use a tad of chorus. Thes will be on the board...
And please...dont tell me to go and buy the Bass and drums expansion card.....
would I do that? I actually intend to, when I've bought my piano action board, multitracker, mixer, new, stereo amp, etc... hehe, I wish...
hope that gives you something to work with... Al
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#24770 - 05/28/00 08:13 PM
Re: dRUMZ
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Please don't get mad, but I'd really advise that you go out and at least try out the SRJV80-10 Bass & Drums expansion baord. It is really worth it.
At one time (a couple of week ago) after owning an XP50 (recently upgraded to an XP60), I got fed up with the drums in the XP. They sounded terrible when compared to a drum set - I should mention that I can also play the drums and it was frustrating.
I then went to my local music store and tried out the XV3080 and was blown away by the realism, and sought to find out if my XP could sound like that. It's kinda funny. I had a Hip-Hop expansion board and completely ignored the B&D board because of the lack of variety (just bass and drums).
When I actually went toi try it, I was blown away. These drums are the best things next to a sampler. . . Really! They really are. I now use the B&D board more than my kit so I don't have to mic my drums. Like all synths, the sounds could be tweaked to your liking, like removing room ambiance (via shortning the times in the TVA). At least give it a chance. It was me trying this board out that stopped me from feeling intimidated to by the upcoming new Roland XV workstations.
The Bass sounds are excellent too. This is one of Roland's best boards. I was just about to pickup a DM5 or DMPro before I checked this board out. Just think about it, if you get the board instead of the module (and prices are falling for these - $199 at ZZsounds!!!), you don't have to worry about new Operating System learning curves and running out of inputs on your mixer, most importantly, everything would be contained in ONE workstation. Good luck.
The Inamous EPU.
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