From ynottnaro@yahoo.com Sat Jul 26 06:40:32 2003
Subject:Re: Roland VR760 Update

Hey Carl....

How have your hands been doing since the changeover?
I hope things are progressing quickly for you.

And the "Stage" piano on that SRX card is simply the
BEST CP70/80 sound I've heard from ANY instrument.

T
--- Carl Van Selman wrote:
> Hi all,
> I said I was going to get a SRX07 card for the VR760
> so that I could have organ on both sides of the
> keyboard split... So I finaly got it and its great!
>
> The card has a dozen or so very respectable hammond
> sounds thyat are not to bad as stand alone but suit
> my need for organ bass in my left hand very well.
> Its also interesting to layer the organ samples from
> the card with the VR760 organ engine, thickens
> everything up a lot, 'specialy good for heavy
> lord/purple etc. The card also has some pretty
> aceptable piano sounds but I'm happy with the VR760
> pianos which are better. There is an electric grand
> which is way better than the Electro (having owned
> both!). Layering some of the electric piano samples
> with the VR760 electric piano samples is quite nice.
> There are shed loads of other sounds on the card,
> strings, guitars, synths, lead, pad, bells and
> whistles, most of which I'll never actually use.
>
> I got the card primarily for the hammond sounds to
> fill in the dreadful oversight regard organ players
> actualy wanting to play bass. Why Roland did this I
> don't know, the organ engine can do it as its the
> same engine as the VK8, still, the card was easy to
> fit, sorted the left hand bass problem and gave me a
> whole lot of other sounds to twiddle with when the
> fancy takes me.
>
> I have a number of keyboards (3 hammonds/leslie, 2
> synths, 1 dedicated music computer) along with
> assorted PA gear but I wanted a single keyboard that
> I could take to a gig and just plug it in. I bought
> an Electro first but although the organ is great the
> electric pianos are difficult to play consistantly
> at gigs and the acoustic piano is dreadful. The
> VR760 is much heavier (actualy, very heavy) which is
> a big problem for me as my hands are not so good at
> holding heavy weights any more and it slips out of
> my fingers unless I get some help. But that aside
> this is the first keyboard that I can actualy take
> to any gig and just plug it into the house or band
> PA, so the leslie sim is a bit weak, out front no
> one can tell and at home I have the real thing.
>
> I've seen some people knocking the VR760 but I don't
> think they've realy given it a go outside a sowroom
> and it does take some twiddling and the extra SRX07
> card to realy bring the thing up to its potential.
> I realy happy with my choice which is all that
> matters at the end of the day.
>
> Carl
>
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