High Diving Act

The sign is LED. I rarely have it on. Too bright. The speakers sound fine.

Here's the home studio these days.. http://i61.tinypic.com/rm8pvk.jpg http://i62.tinypic.com/rqvi2s.jpg

Lol.. It's not for the faint of heart. I am actually a project manager for a metal fabrication and plastic injection molding facility. I was actually going to construct something much more rigid... But it would be heavier and frankly overkill for a board as lightweight as the microstation. I thought I would take a more minimalistic and lightweight approach first. I created something similar for my vk8m which worked perfectly for years.. My contraption is virtually invisible on stage. I've been pounding on the keys for 2 days now.. Thing is solid. The only thing I may add is a bit of Velcro to the front of the microstation.

There is a ton of unused space on my VR700. I had a clear picture of how I could use it and house most of the gear I need at an arms reach. This is why I really felt the Korg Microstation would make a nice sonic and logistic addition to my rig. Here is what I did. Step 1. Cut down 2 metal cloths hangers. http://i.imgur.com/0JhKuf7.jpg Step 2. Bend to size and fasten to existing music stand mounts http://i.imgur.com/Bf88ePz.jpg http://i.imgur.com/JnbHgtC.jpg Step 3. Affix a bit of duct tap to protect hood of board and a bit more just to make sure nothing moves http://i.imgur.com/ezKip7m.jpg Step 4. Place microstation on racks http://i.imgur.com/fvwLAES.jpg http://i.imgur.com/VVOfir9.jpg Still enough space on left side for a minivent and an Ipad on the right! lol

+1 everything Craig said above.. But you gotta try it out yourself. Personally I found the organ tone of the vr09 better than vb3 in an instance or 2 but overall vb3 is superior. Particularly when it came to leslie Sim and overdrive vb3 wins.

Congrats on the release of this update all... finally. Though I no longer own the vr09..im still a fan. Hopefully the Axial site proves fruitful.

Thanks Craig. It sounds pretty decent thru my monitors. The problem with the stock EP sound is that it seems to have 2 samples built in... standard bell sound and bark sound.. there is no smooth transition between the 2. as soon as you get it barking.. you loose all the low end quality.

I did a mod to the 60s EP also. Can't remember exactly right now but change the MFX to twinrotary and add about 11 o'clock... to start.. then tone knob to about 3 o'clock. Decent for tramp stuff.

This is how I designed my sound for rhodes on the vr09. Start with the Vintage EP... turn up the overdrive just enough to hear it engage.. and I don't mean fuzz... I mean just enough that you hear the tonal quality change.. It dulls the sound slightly. I find this helps reduce the bell sound a bit and bridges the low velocity tone with the high velocity bark. Then turn the tone knob somewhere between 9 and 11 o'clock to taste. This again dulls the highs a bit and brings in more natural mid range cut. Then change the reverb from stage to plate and adjust to taste. Viola.. My subjective rhodes tone. lol. Now save to a register if you like. You can make the same adjustments to Stone EP if you like what you hear.

With Grand V.. turn the tone dial to the left @ around 10 30 or 11 o'clock. I also stack the Grand V on top of the Classic Piano sound and do the same thing with the tone.. cuts just fine.

Just came across this video. Nice example of what the vr09 can achieve sonically.

I still have no idea what atelier mode is either. Might be a question for the Roland blog.

Thanks Craig. Yes... the VR does seem to record nicely. My daughter wants to do another one so.. I will use the VR solely again for sound generation... maybe use some more organic sounds and post that one. I appreciated when you posted your soundbites... so just following your lead. It would be cool if someone could post some audio and or video examples of the vr09 in a live application.

Here's a little recording that I did recently with my daughter.. she loves this song so I told her I would create a back track for it and sing the parts that she didn't want to sing. All instrumentation sounds are from the VR09.

Answer would be same as the similar post.. you just have to get used to the keybed sensitivity to manage most expression concerns.. Eps sound good.

Ya.. because of the shallow vertical key depth and organ size keys.. it is definitely more challenging to play expressive. Once I got used to it.. it was better. When I play the tones on my midi controller with piano sized keys and deeper depth.. it is better but still not perfect. The sample depth of the piano patches do limit the expressiveness somewhat also. I will say.. the more I play the piano tones and get acclimatized to the keybed.. the more I like them.. and they seem to cut well.

Craig.. saw your last post on the Roland blog.. did you join the Web conference? What came out of it if so?

B3.. can you paste the link to this video.. I can't seem to get it to work.

I thought the individual registration save update would have been the first to roll out. Maybe they got sick of Craig hounding them and just decided to roll out what they had done so far. lol We will call this update "The Craig McDonald"

Great news.. and I agree Craig. Haters are gonna start to have to make up stuff to complain about soon. I can't see them not addressing the individual registration issue.. as this virtually cripples this keyboard to ever be listed on the axial site. Wonder if OV could comment on that.. or at least look into if another update release is being considered. Looking forward to downloading tonight.

OK.. that memo you are referring to on page 30 is referencing a layer.. not a split plus layer which the vr cannot do. What that memo is stating is that if you have say a organ and rhodes layer.. you can pull the organ sound out by pulling out the drawbars. I think you were hoping you could have 2 organs split and the upper half organ also have a rhodes layer. Then you were hoping you could play organ left hand and have organ and rhodes right hand.. and be able to pull out the organ sound on the right hand without affecting the left hand organ. Not an option. The wording in the manual is a little confusing. Don't let that stop ya from pulling the trigger. lol

Yes transposition's are saved within the registration. Unsure about your second question.

Thanks.. I actually plugged into my daw sequencer and tested the velocity. Could get up to 127 but had to almost bust the keys to get there... and still didnt bite like the vr. So went manual diving again for the np30. Went back into the touch sensitivity settings.. again.. and tried them all out... again. There are only 4 options. Fixed.. Soft... Medium.. Hard. Tried them all again and voila... the Soft setting seems to work like a charm. Went into the key sensitivity in the vr and set it to 8 and voila.. decent consistency between the 2... except the keys on the controller are deeper so bit better control between dynamics. So happy again. I was thinking that I was gonna have to fork out for a new controller. Don't know why I couldn't dial it in the first time. Only crappy part about my controller is that it doesnt retain setting changes. Not a huge deal.. just have to go thru a boot up checklist and hope the power doesn't crop out during a set. Been playing upper.. lower for the past hour with several different sound configs. Sounds great and yes.. the reverb does remain on both splits when running vr and controller. I really do enjoy playing this thing... still no regrets.

Yes it works well. The only problem I experienced is that my controller will not reproduce the full velocity range as the vr keys do. I asked others if they experienced this and noone else has. That leads me to believe it's a controller issue.. not a vr issue. I would suggest you try your controller out with the vr before you buy if possible to assure there's no problems.