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Ekewaka

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About Ekewaka

  • Birthday 03/31/2000

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    Chords,scales, notes and tones.
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    Norcal
  1. Yes, the more reps from keyboard companies are here reading/posting, the better for us all. Thx for joining.
  2. Was $1495 the MSRP price? If so the street price would be down to $1200 or below and then suddenly VR-09 has a hard time competing with something like XK-1c. I think PX-5S will do fine as it's cornering the weighted keys/piano/EP market with additional stuff included. Meanwhile, I'm happy with Mainstage/B3 + much more as the top-level keyboard in my rig. Ultimate flexibility -- if I need to I could even install stuff like SampleTron (Mellotron plug-in) if needed. Or Reaktor :-).
  3. Hmmm, that sounds intriguing. Gotta have tight seals around the audio cords...wonder if warranty covers water damage? Remember that the vr-09 can run on batteries, and there is that nitty little wireless usb dongle. You don't need no stinking cable !! (Btw, anybody tried to run it on batteries ? From the manual, it looks like you should only put rechargeable batteries in there, so I expect the batteries to recharge while the keyboard is plugged to its wall-wart. Is it really the case ?) I seriously doubt it, maybe you get a little bit trickle charge but few if any keyboards with battery support are not constructed for charging batteries.
  4. Some take this forum work very seriously!
  5. In this age of SW code that takes less than a week to port over to a new device, I personally don't think having weak ODs is a cost issue. Rather a market positioning issue avoiding cannibalization of higher cost Roland products.
  6. I don't see the big deal of people disagreeing, or agreeing. That's normal.
  7. Now, Roland (Boss) has lots of experience with amp simulations for guitars so maybe a future product have those rolled in for better distortion/overdrive support.
  8. Some companies have strict policies about forum attendance -- don't know Roland's internal policies myself. I think it's best to keep any personal insults from postings, they are not relevant to the product. It's just a plastic thingie with electrons spinning around, it should handle critique.
  9. I have thought of running the VR-09 through my guitar effects pedal for OD but I don't know how much of the character of the organ sound would be lost by the fact that the signal going into the pedal would only be mono, not stereo. This is my own lack of knowledge about these things. Any ideas? Well, if it sounds good, it is good. So try out.
  10. It would be much easier to put between VR-09 and the amp a good OD or amp simulation guitar pedal.
  11. I just can't imagine that it would be so difficult for Roland to implement a global transpose that would override the preset registrations... Again, a poor design decision... It could indeed be handy for blues organ gigs where the guitar player insists on using Eb tuning to be close to his SRV hero across all the songs....
  12. ...well, the other workaround is to learn the song in various keys...
  13. I totally agree that personal attacks has nothing to do with VR-09. Plus I think it's always good to hear all opinions about products. I also believe readers are intelligent and could filter out nonsense from important information.
  14. I'm indeed one of the Roland fan boys back in the eighties. I guess I'm a spurned lover, too. And crazy, been trying to purchase a new Roland keyboard for the last three years. Still trying, maybe in future.
  15. Not even close. Were you around for the Oasis Wars? Nope. Just give this thread another two months! If it would not have been Roland, it would have been some other Japanese company offering a $999 keyboard with flaws... Maybe this is cyclical. Also, it's pretty easy to avoid it -- release good products.
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