Bad Gear x Legendary Roland D-50

Welcome to Bad Gear, show about world’s most-hated audio tools. Every now and then this show needs some blasphemy, little slap in face of iconic music history milestones and one of these “he’s obviously trolling” moments true Bad Gear fans crave at least once year. Today we are going to talk about legendary D-50. This LA synth and Roland’s answer to Yamaha DX7 not only had huge impact on sound aesthetics of late 80s, it is also still relevant for Enya Orinoco Flow Covers, creating high end General Midi Kontakt Libraries, channeling your Reagan Era soap opera PTSD AND might have point here… Timecodes: 00:00 - Intro 01:02 - Overview Roland D-50 01:11 - WTF is Linear Arithmetic Synthesis??? 01:57 - Virtual Analog before We Called it that Way 02:32 - Splits & other Multitimbral Pleasures 02:48 - Effects (Reverb, Chorus, Chase) 03:05 - Idiosyncrasies of 80s Synth 03:24 - Joystick 03:40 - Controllers, Flagship Synth Features 04:04 - Presets (Fantasia, Pizzagogo, Soundtrack) 04:23 - What Else??? (Pricing, Thanks...) 04:46 - Hate Screen 05:12 - Jam 1 (Lo-Fi Beats) 06:03 - Jam 2 (Elektro) 07:10 - Finale (Epic Techno) 07:40 - Verdict Playlist: #BadGear #RolandD50 Original video: