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My Roland XP-50 finally died after 21 years. I just picked up this Roland VR09B Great sounding and lots of buttons and knobs - vs. menu-driven controls that make me crazy. Lots of fun so far.

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Congrats! I don't have much to add aside from also vastly preferring buttons and knobs. :)
 

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...I just picked up this Roland VR09B...

Nice! And major congrats! I took a brief glance at a demo - man, you're going to have fun with that! Gotta have those great piano sounds. I've had a Motif XS7 for several years, and I'm still using probably 5-10% of its capabilities. At 100% you could probably rule the world with one of these things!
 

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Roland has so many cool keyboard offerings nowadays. While shopping for an 88-key midi controller for my son, I was shocked at the dizzying variations of new keyboards. Have fun! You can lose hours and days just fiddling with a new keyboard.

BTW: An old buddy of mine used to do all the recording of the actual pipe organs used in the Roland keyboards. They sound amazing and just as good as the more popular Nords.
 

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BTW: An old buddy of mine used to do all the recording of the actual pipe organs used in the Roland keyboards. They sound amazing and just as good as the more popular Nords.

<veer> What was his job? Organist? Recording engineer? Person who selected which organs and stops should be sampled? All of the above?
 

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<veer> What was his job? Organist? Recording engineer? Person who selected which organs and stops should be sampled? All of the above?
He was the project manager for recording for Rodgers Organs when Roland used to own them. Rodgers still makes traditional pipe organs, and my buddy said that Roland bought them specifically to record them to use for their digital sounds samples on other Roland keyboards.

He's both an electrical engineer and a musician-composer-sound engineer, and he got head-hunted by Roland right out of college to do this work. Basically, he managed a crew of sound engineers who collaborated in doing all of the above. He said it was endless experimentation with mic choice and placement. I thought it was the coolest job ever, but in 2016, Roland sold Rodgers to a company building a collective of organ companies that I think all produce organs that are a hybrid of traditional works with digital interfaces.
 
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