Bad Gear - The Legendary D-50

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Become a Patron and get access to music clips from the show, additional content, Bad Gear samples and even more AudioPilz madness https://www.patreon.com/audiopilz https://www.instagram.com/audio.pilz/ These links support the channel regardless of what your Bad Gear G.A.S. commands you to buy (at no additional cost for you): EU: https://www.thomann.de/de/index.html?offid=1&affid=3105 US: https://link.perfectcircuit.com/t/v1/8-12626-261103-9759 You liked the finale visuals? Definitely check out "Buzz Box" from 1985 by David Daniels Bad Gear - The Legendary D-50 The Legendary D-50 Roland Roland D-50 Roland D50 D-50 High End Vintage CHEESE High End Vintage Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world’s most-hated audio tools. Every now and then this show needs some blasphemy, a little slap in the face of iconic music history milestones and one of these “he’s obviously trolling” moments true Bad Gear fans crave at least once a year. Today we are going to talk about the legendary D-50. This LA synth and Roland’s answer to the Yamaha DX7 not only had a huge impact on the sound aesthetics of the 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 I might have a point here… Chapters: 00:00 Intro tune 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 and other Multitimbral Pleasures 02:48 Effects (Reverb, Chorus, Chase) 03:05 Idiosyncrasies of an 80s Synth 03:24 The 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 ( LoFi Beats ) 06:03 Jam 2 ( Elektro ) 07:10 Finale ( Epic Techno ) 07:40 Verdict