Mike Warren
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OK, got the VM working and DAW installed.
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Have you downloaded the manager application yet? Pretty sure you can only activate the trial inside it.
Yes, I have installed the Roland Cloud Manager. But I found the answer in the support section:
Q. What is required in order to enroll in a 30-Day free trial?
A. You just need to install Roland Cloud Manager. In the installed Roland Cloud Manager, use 'Membership' to purchase a plan (Core, Pro, Ultimate). You won"t be billed until 30 days after the date of purchase.
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I carried my RD1000 by myself a few times. No case. Would have been so easy to have dropped it.
Edit: Just looked it up. 43.5kg/95lbs. Ouch!
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Hmm, I created a Roland cloud account yesterday and it supposedly comes with a 30 day trial of Ultimate.
Free Roland Account
INCLUDES
ZENOLOGY Lite software synth
Purchase Lifetime Keys for instruments, sounds, and patterns
30-day free trial of Ultimate with membership for new customers
Zenbeats Music Creation Software
I can't work out how to activate the trial and Google is not helping me. Maybe I'm misunderstanding how this works.
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Nowadays, my 46 lb. Kronos 73 is too heavy. Or at least it's too heavy at the end of the gig when it's time to tear down.
That fits with my observation that all heavy items put on quite a bit of weight as the day goes on. Some things can weigh up to 3 times their morning weight by late evening.
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The JV-1080 is not a complete superset of the JV-90. Some of the waveforms are gone like '90"s Snare" and some of the other drums. I believe I was able to import JV-80 banks into my XP-50 at the time, but those did not use the missing drum waves. JV-1080 has many similar patches to the JV80/90/1000, and you can certainly remake most of it.
If you want the closest thing to a JV-90, get the JV-1080 VST(includes all 1083 PCM waves and effects from the XV-5080 VST) or the XV-5080 VST(includes all of the JV-1080 content as well as the XV-5080 additional patches). These both have the Reverb and Chorus processors in addition to the MFX, so the patches sound pretty much the same as original, except for the absent 'Multi' 4-7 stage chain effects from the XV-5080. Zenology has the 1080/5080 patches, but in Zencore form, which does not have reverb/chorus processors at the patch level. Rev/Cho are at the Scene(multi) level in the new ZenCore hardware hierarchy and Zenology has no Scene mode (yet) One exception is the new JD-800 expansion for Zenology, which has all the effects processors from the original synth.
Good info. Thanks. I can't remember at this stage how much MIDI data I stored in the project files, so do know how big a job this will be. Pretty sure I didn't store any sysex.
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Roland's Cloud gives me a proper D-50 with no friction involved, so I'd recommend the XV-5080 as worthy of the patch diving you'll have to do to find some of those earlier sounds. If they pop up in the full sets displayed by the D-50, you should be able to locate most of them fairly easily.
Thanks Dave.
I'm still wary of The Cloud in general, but I can testify that in this instance, its performing as described.Yeah, me too. I'm finding more and more that I don't have any choice.
What a pleasant form of Solitaire for your pandemic evening's fun.Indeed.
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I played a JV-90 at church until a few months ago The other keyboardist of the band still has it. Let me know if you need anything from it
I think I"ve read it somewhere that later synths such as the XV had all the waveforms but none of the same presets.
Thanks for the offer.
I do plan on creating a Win98 virtual machine so I can install the DAW I was using at the time. I'll need that to extract MIDI data of the parts.
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I guess that's a possibility. But I would like to have my JV-90 back in VST form anyway. I also have a soft spot for the JX-3P, which I sold with a PG-200 for $100 in perfect condition many years ago.
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I have been thinking about remixing an album I produced for someone in the late 90s.
My JV-90 (which I no longer own) was quite extensively used, and although I have stems of the synth parts I'd much rather have the ability to re-record them. Most of the patches used were slightly modified presets.
I was hoping there may have been a JV-90 VST on the Roland cloud, but the nearest seems to be the JV-1080, which I'm sure will be the same technology.
I'm wondering if it would make more sense to get the XV-5080 instead? I really don't want to purchase both.
Does anyone know if the XV-5080 is likely to have the waveforms from the JV-90. What about the presets?
If not, what about the JV-1080. Is that actually a superset of the JV-90 as I suspect?
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Love that song! Coincidentally, I enjoy playing that one myself. Good work!
Thanks. I'm in the minority of people who quite like that album. Probably because of the age I was when it was released. I remember walking an hour each way to the record store to buy it.
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[*]How good you are - better players attract better players; lesser players not so much.
This explains why I've never met a guitarist who has more than a tiny smattering of theory knowledge.
It's very common for me to have to play less common chords note by note for the guitarist to work it out.
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Apart from agreeing with most of the replies I'd just like to point out that "time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so." [Douglas Adams]
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James, I have several expensive audio restoration programs. I'd be happy to have a go at at least one song for you. If it comes out well, I won't mind doing more. At the very least, I may be able to offer some suggestions once I know what the specific problems are.
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Upscaling 720p or any other HD format to 4K does not result in higher resolution. You are stuck with the original resolution as recorded.
Actually, some of the new AI based upscaling programs do add some more detail. The quality is a bit variable, though. It depends on the source material.
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I know the feeling. Psoriatic arthritis is affecting most of my finger and wrist joints. Dexterity is gone, particularly in my left hand. I often get depressed about it, but I'm trying to force myself to play within my new skill set.
You can clearly see the second finger of my left hand in this video.
My strong suggestion is to work around the problem. Losing music completely is not an option for me.
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The unchanged constant is that artists and musicians have find a way to build an audience and sell themselves.
I've noticed that the musicians that do the best with the YouTube/Patreon model know how to sell themselves and have a personality beyond the music.
One thing is certain...it's even harder for artists and musicians to establish themselves musically when they have more excuses for not getting things done and little or no hustle to make it happen.Indeed.
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Mike, we're trying to arrange that very thing right now. We've managed to get as far as Townsville for June 2022 so are hopeful of dovetailing Cairns in there.
If you do get here and have a spare day I'd be happy to take you on a trip around the tablelands waterfall circuit if you're interested, or get a drink/coffee or whatever.
Anyway, if you do manage to make it, please let me know when you have a date and venue.
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Make sure to let me know if you ever get up to Cairns.
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Can I plug one of these into anything?
I wouldn't, just based on that incorrect description.
Seriously, it's of very limited use. It can be used to split a mono RCA signal into a stereo 6.5mm input, which are very rare beasts. Using it the other way around, which is a common requirement, is fraught with potential problems as it would be shorting the left and right channels together. This can lead to anything from working acceptably to working, but distorting, right up to blowing stuff up, so not recommended unless the pitfalls are understood.
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Again, I'll take this opportunity to reiterate that I soooo wish I could sing.
That doesn't stop me.
But I soooo wish I could play as well as Ellis (or even any of the people here).
I've never been too good, but the arthritis has made things much worse.
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I ended up using Sonarworks for the room EQ. REW was just too clunky for my liking.
I'm quite happy with Sonarworks. I have added the VST to the control room in cubase.
Where I want quality recording I use the Presonus Studio 192 interface, but I can also record all the individual inputs from the live setup which is via an XR-18.
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By holding down the light button on the power/lighting controller for a couple of seconds the lights go into maintenance mode where everything gets bright. Also, a bunch of lighting comes on under the desk so I can see what I'm doing with cabling and the back of the computer.
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Now some final pictures:
The first is set up for video editing. The lighting is neutral so as not to cause a colour cast.
And the second picture shows it set up for music.
The other keyboardist of the band still has it. Let me know if you need anything from it 
Roland VSTs
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Not looking for any new hardware at the moment.
Getting the Ultimate 30 day trial solves my problem. I can try the XV-5050 and JV-1080 to see which will be best. I don't mind buying one of them, but not both. I could probably even get what I want done within the 30 days if it turns out that I don't really want the JV-90 back, nostalgia being what it is, I will also get to relive the JX-3P for a short time. That my cure my nostalgia for that too.