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right. the '730 Fatar spec' feels very much like the Hammond SK. The Nord 'spec' feels a bit different (some like it, some like because it's red, and some don't like it despite being red)

VR700 CTRLR EDITOR 1.01.5 - major hotfix release finally, the 'sporadic' muting of sounds when VR sounds are selected on editor (dropdowns) could be indentified and fixed. Download and install is highly recommended For download simply use the links given in previous posts

"cheeeea - you are on non of the photos" "why should I ?" "????' "don't like" "not a single photo of you" "yeah - but look at the {monument|impressive cathedral|magnifigue landscape|lucky shot|ambient light|....}" "errr ja, nice ... [not looking at anything] - no photos of you and your friends?" "guess there is one , here" [photo of friends grinning into the camera like a horde of apes] "oohh how beeaaaaautiful [starring at the photo] - but where is you on the photo???" [starting to get pissed] "SOMEONE HAD TO HOLD THE CAMERA!!!!" "BUT no photo of you!" "Wait ... here - your photo of mine" "BUT you're wearing a motorcycle helmet!" "YESSSS !!!!" "No photo of you! Why no photo of you" "I HATE THOSE PHOTO 'ME IN FRONT OF BRIDGE, ME IN FRONT OF TOWER, ME IN FRONT OF BAR, ME IN FRONT OF THIS AND THAT AND THIS AND THAT...' " "You're an abnormal person" "Photographs are for the scene, not for having the same people grinning like apes and covering any photo" "There is something wrong with you" "You folks only want to adore yourself" "You're an associal person!" "Really? And you're are all just self-regarding egocentrics" "There is something wrong with you" "It's my thing, isn't it ?!" "....... but WHY are you never on photos???!!!" "AAAAAAHHHHHHH $*%T!!X}!& !!!!" (here happened the usual daily tragedy of a usual family)

seems it's discontinued. One still can find some NOS (in Europe) though. An alternative is a 2nd hand StudioLogic VMK-161 'Waterfall' which is sold at (european) 2nd hand portals for ca. 200 bucks: first-gen Fatar TP/8o (longer keys than actual TP/8o), no organ high trigger.

no believe - YC61 keys have no weights added. It's a 'simplistic plastic hinge' action (no springs).

Roland states (Roland Shermany ' Piano knowhow') : half-weighted = 'normal keys' PLUS key-weights. Afair this is what the 'common understanding' is since decades Me seems those definitions of halfweighted as 'with stiffer springs' or 'different escapment' are extremly diffuse and unprecise. Probably more of a marketing buzzwording effort to attribute (cheap) unweighted 'piano-styled' bugdet keyboards some 'additional value' and dilute the fundamental difference between a spring action and a hammer action.

CT-S1 is un-weighted. Weighted have per definition a 'key-weight' (a metal plate fixed into each key' - theoretically one could also produce 'heavier keys without weights just by filling the key ends with 10-20 gramm plastic material - but afaik this does not exist as it would require completely different molds). The Casios have slighly 'stiffer' synth-actions, with the keys themself being 'light'. The feel between an unweighted and semi-weighted is very different though - this is simple Newton physics (momentum, inertia ... ) In the last years it happens more and more often that manufacturers delcare un-weighted as 'semi-weighted' - this is only for marketing reasons (it recently happened with Yamaha YC and CK - which are both unweighted keys) - frankly speaking it's a marketing lie.

CTRLR EDITOR v1.12.20: bugfix & feature release This bugfix/feature release fixes important bugs in V-SYNTH/VSSD and STAGE-RHYTHM and adds some new features: V-SYNTH/VSSD: added 'Cutoff Aftertouch Sens' and 'Level Aftertouch Sens' in FILTER/AMP section and 'Mouse-button/Wheel scrolling' buttons to PCM-Wave select box. Fixed fixed disfunctional pcm wave select box in V-SYNTH STAGE 'Rhythm' : added PAN, fixed disfunctional drumkit selector box, consolidated drumkit list ATELIER DRUM (kit): corrected false drum-kit list minor bugfixes Handling improvement for those who use V-SYNTH/VSSD 'pcm-waves' : the new little 'mouse scroll' buttons at right hand of each pcm-wave selector box allow to scroll very fast through the pcm-waves by mouse-click or mouse-wheel direct download : https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1_CJVGF0tACCxr1m0Y5yw7YLWEg1bvMF0 v-combo website : https://v-combo.webspace.rocks/editor-vr09-730

post Disco, pre Disco .... love Future Shock 'modernised fusion'. than this "Future-2-Future Live" DVD (it's on YT but DVD has amazing 5.1 experience): a flight through modal and chromatic free jazz, spiritual concepts, hiphop turntable breaks, vocoded groove, world music, transcendental synth noise sound scapes and instrumental solos - a harmonical and rhythmical all-day journey packed in two hours that always leaves me physically exhausted.

Thanks, amigo, you got me ! Imagine this sweet song - video with the Mickey Mouse piano ... Ok, let's move over to Tom&Jerry ... well, honestly, even that would not match ... too 'classical' Maybe the "DP" (Disney-Piano) suits those concert halls Sunday matinees for introducing the young into classical music ? (Seriously!)

I like the piano graphics ... but when Lang Lang starts playing the 'combination' looks ... totally ridiculous 🤡 Maybe if he'd perfome some Disney children movie tunes ?

don't want to be annoying in any way .... but please don't reference ctrlr.org anymore: the website is abandoned by its owner and 'out off date' VR09/730 editor is here: https://v-combo.webspace.rocks/editor-vr09-730 VR700 editor (which adds 'hidden' functionality to 700) is here: https://v-combo.webspace.rocks/roland-vr700-v-combo-editor

CTRLR EDITOR hotfix v1.12.19 : 'GM2 volumes' this little hotfix is only relevant to those (if there are any ... ) that use 'GM2-engine' mode in panel SOUND-GM2: Fixes erratic behaviour of the 'channel volume' settings. n.b. the release also adds 'hidden' pitch bend range of +/-15 halftones in kbd config (VR factory is 12 halftones ) direct download : https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1_CJVGF0tACCxr1m0Y5yw7YLWEg1bvMF0 v-combo website : https://v-combo.webspace.rocks/editor-vr09-730

You could have "read the f*****g manual" where it is explained Or watched Dexibells excellent webinars on Youtube which, amongst all other things, explain step by step custom patch installation - afair there is an one hour plus video only about the EPs (download, install, layering, customising). Or you could simply have emailed Dexibell (I was 'only interested' in J7 but got detailed, friendly explanations to all my questions and was asked for personal opinion for improving the units). You may not have liked the APs - or just missed download/install the timbres you like, as there is Hamburg, Yamaha, Bechstein, Fazioli, 'old French' + all their 'live/bright/etc' variants - the old FP10 is a ... err... 'rather non-brilliant' sound - maybe the warm sounding 'French' could have been yours. Definitely the APs are the exact opposit of 'crapp' - they are technically highly resolved, super long decay, no looping, huge polyphony, wide sounding resonances. The only thing one could complain that they sound 'overly perfect' - sligtly cold - which is a todays general trend (even Roland jumped on then train with their FP-X models) Finally one has to understand that Dexies are italian made - Italians have a particular 'idea of sound' - it's their tradition of 'ancient' and popular music - and there's a good portion of it in the Dexibells (e.g. the tonewheel sound) - like it or not.

100% agree (just one precision: on VR one can recall single sounds via midi but not complete 'registrations' - the latter being a pain in the a.... absolutely incomprehensible why Roland did not deliver a fix after all the owners claims) Midi: right, VRs capabiltiy to control external gear is basically null (or at least complicated to setup with sysex-to-CC mappers) - on the other hand you can use an external controller to play VRs complete Roland GS/SC heritage sound palette ... like a XV or SC module ... We could continue this 'shootout' CK vs. VR for hours - it won't make sense: although both cover the 'budget all-in-one-gigging-board' segment each has its strong points and weak points, none is 'better' or 'worse' - it's upon each ones 'spec sheet' to decide which of both fits in. @CHarrell: right, the VA-synth is that of JP-80/Integra/Gaia