Roland SH-201

[Timo]

Originally Posted by djencode

i dunno guys it still seems like too much of a kids keyboard for me to ever use it. and you'll never convince me it sounds the same as an 8080, it doesn't have the same circuitry, and as far as i can tell, the oscs don't even sound the same. like the vsynth, the VA sounds cheap and thin. it's no virus or waldorf. it's good for its intended audience, people new to music looking for a easy keyboard that's cheap, but i would never use one. in regards to the vsynth, variphrase admittedly is really cool, but if i need it that badly i'll get varios. since every other aspect of the vsynth isn't that apealing to me, and dbeams is nothing more than a trinket to me. im a mouse and keyboard kind of guy, i have no piano background, so for me, my performance will be more on sculpting textures via knobs rather than playing. and while i could assign parameters to the dbeam to do such performances, i'd feel like a dork doing it, and i'd rather have tangable control anyhow.

No-one's got a gun to your head forcing you to buy one, ffs.