Silly Useless Features : Roland V-Link or D-Beam???? Does anyone care about these?

[Alkeys]

Does anyone actually use Roland V-Link or

D-Beam???? Does anyone care about these????

Especially V-Link

 

What am i gonna do give a friggin Powerpoint presentation with my Roland Keyboard?

 

Does it double as an overhead projector as well??

Silly useless features?????

 

What does this have to do with playing keyboard again??????

[Alkeys]

Roland you paying attention here babe???

[Billdar]

Alkeys, you've stated your opinion before getting answers to your questions. This more or less takes away one's motivation to answer them.

 

That's not productive, my friend.

 

Cheers,

Bill

[DanS]

What did your post count get up to before you were driven out of your last forum?

[NB1212]

ya i dont think it serves much purpose. just one of those feautures companies put on products to get you to pay a couple of extra bucks.

 

overhead projector, hahaha good one.

[Sven Golly]

Originally posted by Alkeys:

Does anyone actually use Roland V-Link or

D-Beam???? Does anyone care about these????

Especially V-Link

Yes. You can sleep better at night knowing that, much like equipment with wall warts, someone out there is flying in the face of your wisdom, and using 'useless' features on keyboards.

 

[dnile]

Yep, I'm sure they're mostly intended as marketing gimmicks. But I'm sure some people do actually use them - and more power to them.

 

As long as Roland keyboards remain competitively priced compared to other brands, the extra features really aren't disadvantaging anyone. You can simply ignore them.

 

Of course there are the arguments about how company resources could be better spent improving other aspects of the products... but all that's speculation, really. I don't let it bother me

[workstationM.I.]

Actually,the D Beam could be adapted to serve as somewhat of a faux wind controller,except with your hand instead of your breath...

 

As for the V-Link,why doesn't Roland put it to REAL use and install a "display out" on the back of the high end keyboards so one could hook up an LCD Monitor and not have to squint and hunch?

I think a 15.4" widescreen would suffice,in comparison to the present reality...

[Black Tomorrow]

If anyone is interested, I've actually used the D-beam, though not to its fullest capability. I had to turn down the sensitivity so the keyboard mounted above it wouldn't interfere. Now the V-Link...well, I can't help you there...

[steadyb]

Topic: Silly Useless Features : Roland V-Link or D-Beam???? Does anyone care about these?

 

Alkeys

 

posted 03-10-2006 02:43 PM

 

Does anyone actually use Roland V-Link or

D-Beam???? Does anyone care about these????

Especially V-Link

 

What am i gonna do give a friggin Powerpoint presentation with my Roland Keyboard?

 

Does it double as an overhead projector as well??

Silly useless features?????

 

What does this have to do with playing keyboard again??????

Posts: 36

 

 

Alkeys

 

posted 03-10-2006 02:47 PM

 

Roland you paying attention here babe???

Yeah, 4 whole minutes and no design change announcements from Roland headquarters.

[Andre Lower]

Well, you have to admit that some other aspects of the product are quite good. It's no wonder Roland ranks up there among the big three.

 

I suppose all of them have their Achilles heel. Yamies do have this thing with interface convolution, and Korg's reliance on EFX for molding their sound has become notorious. The fact that you have to live with D-Beams, V-Links, bad joke User manuals and whatnot kind of evens the game, so those that do not like one or more of the big three have some ammunition to bash them .

 

You see, I count myself among these people. As pissed as I get with these Roland traits, I still find myself liking their workstation more than the other two. Oh silly me...

[workstationM.I.]

Those "Roland Traits" have a lot of history behind them:

 

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jan05/articles/roland.htm

 

I know Part 3 might be a strange place to start

but it is very interesting reading.

[Ian Sharrock]

Have to admit I use the D-Beam on my AX7. Got a velocity switched distort guitar sound out of my N1R & the beam brings in a reverbed sine wave an octave and a half above. Instant "feedback"!