Only one of these 3 I bought new back in the day and kept all this time for just a couple of sounds since it wouldn't bring enough $ to be worth selling.Īnd I play my Yamaha Motif XS rack (much more recent rompler, not 90s) all the time-still really like its electric pianos, guitar & bass, and brass sounds.Įven though I have some "real" instruments as plug ins for my DAW that may have more samples and are technically more realistic, there's just something about the Motif sounds that are so fun to play, quite expressive (response to velocity, mod and pitch wheels) and they often fit in a mix better.Today, I would like to show you how to install Paint.NET on macOS using Virtualbox (VM Software). Some wild drum sounds.)Īlesis QSR (the Vintage Keyboards card has an excellent Emerson style Hammond organ with percussion aka key click). Korg TR Rack (many presets go overboard on the reverb, etc but can be dialed back pretty easily. Roland JD-990 w/Vintage Synth expansion board (yep, some great pads and stabs that still hold up well). I still have and occasionally use these rack module romplers: Romplers a bit like trying to conduct an orchestra shoved into a transit van!. Off a guy who did industrial stuff in a band called ed-209!so 90s:), My first rompler type synth was a kawai k4 not bad at all-bought it Yamaha tg-500 - quite warm/gritty and very old school samples built in. Roland xv-5080 - massive palette of sounds but not as nice as earlier units.
Yamaha wavestion AD - complex soundscapes and crappy real instrument emulations.Įmu-ultra proteus - z-plane filters with quite nice real instrument sounds.
Roland jd-990 - classy but fat sounding beast and quite warm pads.Įmu-morpheus - complex and evolving ambient stuff. Yeah i am interested in this subject, i have collected quite a few romplers, the sounds are good and usable,i have other gear too but i like them for the nostalga of the sounds, I got sick of them back in the day but fell back in love again!. Haha, yeah the wavestation AD panpipe heaven:)
You could spend hours developing your analog bleeps, or you could dial in digitized strings with no resonant filter, haha! And partly I want to think about how much easier it is to use a synth with preset sounds than to control a Eurorack Modular. Partly I want to share how much fun it is to stack a bunch of sounds together using synths from different manufacturers. I prefer hands-on control like with my Kurzweil K2500XS or Novation X-Station - but there they sit, ROMpler modules with limited front panel interfaces and as practically a requirement -computers running GUI editor/librarians we *wish* the ROMplers had - the editor/librarians no longer working due to computer PS uogrades. Then later in the recession I sold off most of my gear and delved into plugins. Eventually I ended up with a fabulous home studio in 2010 with a couple of piano style controllers, a handful of virtual analogs, a stack of ROMplers and a Microwave XT. So for years I struggled along with a Korg Poly-800, Korg DS-8, Roland P-330 piano unit, and original Korg CX-3 organ. When they were hot, I was broke as hell and could not afford ROMplers.