V-Synth
Version 1
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This is the original V-Synth, as it came out on the market in 2003. The V-Synth was a breakthrough in synthesis, as it provided a flexible sound generation structure, using Roland's VariPhrase and COSM technologies to create new, amazing sounds, a high-quality effect section, and power real-time controls like the Time Trip Pad and the D Beam. It also offered V-Link, that could control video equipment and sync to the synth's performance. The V-Synth was well received and is considered a "synthesis machine" - like notable predecessors such as the Jupiter-8, the JD-800, and the JP-8000 - instead of a "ROMpler" like the XP/JV or the Fantom series. Amazing, other-worldly sounds are easily achievable on this instrument, and it is possible to control, morph and twist the sound thanks to its many hands-on controls (plenty of knobs too). |
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The large touch screen makes it easy to navigate through the various menus and parameters. A great, powerful synth that's already a classic. |
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| Patch name with audio demo | My comments |
| 001 MadOrchestra | One of the most famous V-Synth patches |
| 002 Harp Trek | Showcasing the great V-Synth arpeggio function |
| 003 Dusted Loop | A different loop |
| 004 MemoryMoke | Fantastic analog polysynth!!! - Assumingly inspired by the Moog MemoryMoog? |
| 005 Hyperballad | Interesting, percussive, resonant loop |
| 006 Heavy Drone | Excellent, expressive solo synth lead |
| 007 VoixBulgares | Very nice, evolving female choir, reminiscent of the traditional "Bulgarian Voices" choirs |
| 008 Voco Bass | Nice filtered, vocoded bass |
| 009 Phrase Lab | Hypnotic, spacey percussive sequence |
| 010 Quasimodo | Interesting, vaguely Asian-sounding synth |
| 011 Time Warper | Nice loop, being mangled by Time Trip Pad (TTP) and D Beam |
| 012 Poppy Day | Another characteristic V-Synth patch |
| 013 Jet Bass | Superb Techno-House lead/bass/synth |
| 014 Trip of Time | Perfect for soundtrack work |
| 015 NaNaNaHeyYaa | Cool, bouncy percussion loop + vox + bass |
| 016 Tardus | Cool, disjointed pad |
| 017 120LpMixMenu | Excellent drum loops of different kinds |
| 018 Pulsatronic | Gorgeous, hypnotic arpeggio synth |
| 019 Percolator | Another cool arpeggio synth |
| 020 LetThemPray | Beautiful, hypnotic solo female vox - again, another signature V-Synth sound! |
| 021 DblSweeper | Fantastic resonant-filter pad, analog-sounding and powerful |
| 022 Metalarnyx | Typical D-50-style loops |
| 023 TimeTripRun | Nice Tribal-Techno loop |
| 024 Nylon Floot | Suave synth |
| 025 GhostingGrit | Nice evolving, gritty synth fx |
| 026 TalkingSteps | Good sequenced synth |
| 027 Synapse 1 | Superb percussion loop with strange synth |
| 028 DBeam Slap | Weird percussion loop |
| 029 StormyFunkBs | The Funk bass of the 1970s. |
| 030 Look@MeEllie | Characteristic sequenced vox |
| 031 Earth Temple | Awesome singing monks |
| 032 Grity Groove | Great distorted loop, reminds a bit of the band "Garbage" |
| 033 ReversedTrek | Yep |
| 034 Wondervoice | Another signature V-Synth vocal patch |
| 035 LabyrinthArp | Powerful and hypnotic brassy arpeggio |
| 036 ARP Trance | Digital arpeggiated loop |
| 037 Sine Bell | Special fx bells |
| 038 Mekongscape | Exquisite Asian-type instrument, with arpeggio |
| 039 Bon Voyage | Weird |
| 040 Acetate arp | Funky arpeggio synth |
| 041 Little Fluff | Different, intriguing synth |
| 042 Big Fluff | Sounds of the '80s |
| 043 Chariosity | Bouncy synth |
| 044 Radar Arp | Nice arpeggiated pluck synth |
| 045 Tangy Speed | Huge, VA-flavored synth arpeggio |
| 046 Chorduroy | Fat and happy synth |
| 047 Synthetik | Bouncy |
| 048 Late Lounge | Cool setup with a jumping organ and filtered echo |
| 049 Tap Dance | Yep |
| 050 Dustbins | Cool, fast drum loop - mangled via TTP and D Beam |
| 051 Wet Balloon | Curious amalgam of poppy sounds |
| 052 AKAGANI | Videogame gone bad |
| 053 DanseSacrale | Very weird. |
| 054 InSaNe dJ | Loop. |
| 055 Maddening Lp | Superb, evolving loop, with space alien voices and mechanical noises |
| 056 MetalOnMetal | Beautiful, spacious ambient pad, very modern-sounding |
| 057 NaidinTirips | Beautiful, intriguing ethnic sound fx, guttural and spacey, floating in space |
| 058 Nemesis | Moving machinery in the space ship's engine room |
| 059 Metaluna | Very nice 1950s U.F.O. fx |
| 060 LoCo Pilot | Digital, gritty, evolving fx pad |
| 061 Fixed Star | Another good space fx |
| 062 Spectroscope | Digital fx |
| 063 Bird Island | Gorgeous ambient pad, with sublime analog pad sound, and palm trees full of singing birds |
| 064 To Space | Space ship cruising |
| 065 Snowflake | Tomita'ish |
| 066 TTripWhisper | The good controls on the V-Synth |
| 067 Galaxia | Full fx |
| 068 DBeamPsychic | Weird motion fx |
| 069 Glass House | Crystalline |
| 070 Psycho | Yep! |
| 071 GlassCluster | Beautiful spacey loop |
| 072 Decompose | Perfect scary-movie pad! |
| 073 V-aterphone | More scary effects |
| 074 La Magia | Excellent inspiration for a wizard and witch movie |
| 075 TT Creatures | Run! |
| 076 Gutter Shaku | Different |
| 077 Dive Bomber | Cool inspiration from a WWII propeller airplane |
| 078 ScottishMess | Disjointed bagpipe |
| 079 DA Converter | Powerful synth bass sound |
| 080 Sleeping Bs | :-) |
| 081 DBeam Insect | Summer night on Mars |
| 082 Alien Bubble | Laughing androids |
| 083 Talkbox | Pepperoni?? |
| 084 Tetapaali | Superb vocal fx |
| 085 HappyCartoon | Yep |
| 086 Junker Pad | Yes |
| 087 RevrsPfWater | Different sound design, folks |
| 088 Fireworks | percussive sound fx |
| 089 Break it ! | Missile! |
| 090 Man-Machine | Broken machinery |
| 091 Break Down | More broken machinery |
| 092 Elektronoiz | Nuclear reactor |
| 093 e=mc^2 | Spaceship jet engine |
| 094 90FootSpikes | Cool sound!!! |
| 095 Broken HAL | flies away |
| 096 Voxette 2003 | Awesome vocal sequence, typical V-Synth |
| 097 Piston Pulse | Another good vocal sequence |
| 098 Talkn'Slicer | Typical Trance-style sequence |
| 099 Runners | Typical 1970s s/h synth |
| 100 Harmny2Chaos | Weird but cool! |
| 101 Baby Steps | More vocal stepping goodness |
| 102 Wavescanner | Nice fx |
| 103 SteproSwank | Percussive digital berimbau like |
| 104 Pluck-Morph | Stupendous out-of-this-world sound! |
| 105 Synapse 2 | Typical dance sequence |
| 106 In a Hurry | The classic D-50 loop!!! |
| 107 INSPIRATOR | Wild |
| 108 Tribal SBF | Weird percussion |
| 109 Bo'sides now | Digital percussion |
| 110 Side walk | Rubber bands in space |
| 111 SBSync'd | Digital nice |
| 112 Triple Wha | Jimi Hendrix's broken guitar |
| 113 Bowed Bells | Nice bowl full of water |
| 114 Reversed Mb | Xylophone on Revox. Broken tape, rewind. |
| 115 Africalcool | Same as above, with kalimba sound |
| 116 Running Away | The orchestral piano is crazy |
| 117 Funky Guru | :-) |
| 118 Groovy-Doo ! | Vox and percussion |
| 119 Radon Rhythm | Gaseous spaces |
| 120 BitDown Beat | Nice distorted and echoed loop |
| 121 Traship-Hop | Very distorted loop |
| 122 XY&DB 4 Fun | Super filtering fx |
| 123 Hip Groove | Happy drums |
| 124 Micro Jazz | in a tin can |
| 125 Rubbadub | Elastic madness |
| 126 Alien Groove | Oh yes. |
| 127 Machine Seq | The elastic V-Synth in action |
| 128 XY Artefacts | Ant colony on Saturn |
| 129 LoopWaveMenu | Solid beats |
| 130 085LpMixMenu | More fantastic loops |
| 131 100LpMixMenu | at 100bpm.. |
| 132 125LpMixMenu | a bit faster |
| 133 140LpMixMenu | at Techno speed |
| 134 Voxalist | Expressive and different vocal lead |
| 135 Formanteer's | Vocoder-style choir |
| 136 Idle Chatter | More V-Synth VariPhrase magic |
| 137 Thinband Vox | Vox meets synth |
| 138 Spongle | Funky vocal patch |
| 139 FmleVocalise | Beautiful female vox, very expressive |
| 140 MOOD SCAT | Vowels and consonants a go go |
| 141 Babylon Talk | Android kids |
| 142 TimeTripMonk | Robot priest |
| 143 AfricanCharm | Outstanding chant |
| 144 Virgo | Phenomenal thereminesque vox |
| 145 Hybrid Scat | Oh yep. |
| 146 Vocalese | Vox and resonance |
| 147 GizmoVox | Hollow, digital vox |
| 148 Vocalizing | More beauty aahs |
| 149 Overtones | Very nice vector-like quality |
| 150 Vocal Pad | Stupendous analog pad, warm and spacious |
| 151 Choir&Prayer | In a small chapel... |
| 152 Monestary | Cool vocal fx |
| 153 Choral Beam | "Percussive" choir |
| 154 Vox Dreams |
Nice evolving vox |
| 155 Glass Choir | Beautiful digital choir, a bit a la D-50 |
| 156 Initiation | Lots of crystals sprinkled on top of this pad |
| 157 Tomorrow | More crystals sprinkles and a warmer pad |
| 158 Flotation | The classic D-50 organ and other moving parts... |
| 159 Twilight | Ravishing, beautiful twinkly string pad... perfect for many musical genres |
| 160 Glass Pad | Leslie-like, twirly pad |
| 161 FuzzyHeaven | Gentle fuzz and lots of atmosphere |
| 162 Padus | Digital goodness |
| 163 Filmy Synth | Warm, moving string analog pad, very nice |
| 164 Fluty Pad | Low bit-rate Mellotron style |
| 165 Ringbearer | Atmospheric |
| 166 Smoothie | Warm pad |
| 167 Touchpad Pad | Nice pad |
| 168 Resonus | Gentle resonant filter pad |
| 169 SloSyncSweep | Singing robot |
| 170 BriteVektars | More vector-style goodies |
| 171 Brass Pad | Twinkly pad |
| 172 Tight Wire | Ok |
| 173 Eclipse | Tight pad |
| 174 Aurora | Huge, twinkly super-pad |
| 175 Ghost | Solar winds |
| 176 Tape Strings | Classic Mellotron-type sound |
| 177 VellatronStr | More Mellotron emulations |
| 178 Stringerz | Strings with strong attack |
| 180 Think Ployd | Loopy string pad |
| 181 Stringent | Nice orchestral strings |
| 182 DBeamFrmntVn | A strangely hypnotic violin |
| 183 GoodOldJive | 1930s jazz |
| 184 Euro Flute | Good for sequencing |
| 185 Vellatron Fl | Classic Mellotron flutes |
| 186 Tape Flute | And even more Mellotron flutes |
| 187 Soft Pan Flt | Realistic pan flute |
| 188 Wind Ctrler | Nice oboe/clarinet patch |
| 189 Drunk Alto | Realistic saxophone program |
| 189 Shakin'Str | Exactly |
| 190 ArpyClarinet | Realistic clarinet program |
| 191 Big Bamboo | Expressive bamboo flute |
| 192 Digier-V-doo | The V-Synth's take on the famous Australian instrument, the didjeridoo |
| 193 Feedback Osc | Yep |
| 194 Whoover | The classic Techno lead synth, as found on the alpha-Juno/MKS-50 synths |
| 195 Wave Ripper | Huge synth |
| 196 Sinkkasten | Ripping lead synth!! |
| 197 TopOfTheWrld | Throaty lead synth |
| 198 Think Lead | Another super Minimoog-style lead synth |
| 199 Feel no pain | Disto lead |
| 200 NastyLead | Even more disto lead |
| 201 Sine ahead | Cool Progressive-style solo synth |
| 202 Tea Bea Lead | Inspired by the classic TB-303 |
| 203 Scratch Lead | Funky |
| 204 Brassy Lead | More Minimoog goodness |
| 205 Solo Square | The classic square waveform lead |
| 206 FragileVoice | Modern solo synth |
| 207 Shuu Lead | Very nice Asian lead |
| 208 Cla Lead | Expressive clarinet type lead |
| 209 Asian Lead | Beautiful, expressive |
| 210 ConstructBts | Mechanics on Neptune |
| 211 Pulsactive | Solid evolving pad |
| 212 Thick Sine | Digi analog |
| 213 Retro-Disco | Very cool, retro '70s synth sound, perfect for groovin' |
| 214 Greasy Comb | More 1970s coolness |
| 215 Hi-Lo Synth | Spikey synth, powerful |
| 216 V-Analog | Awesome synth stack |
| 217 Wavezituar | Guttural weirdo |
| 218 On the Edge | Superb "chord accompaniment" synth |
| 219 STALKER | Very nice Moog'ish dancey sound, with excellent, slow filter cutoff |
| 220 Legacy | OK guitar-type sound |
| 221 Phasorblade | Nice phased digital sound |
| 222 LiquidRubber | Solid synth bass tone, that works as solo also. Plenty of delay fx |
| 223 Cutting Edge | Weird LFOs |
| 224 ElectricWah | Ok |
| 225 NOT Sync! | but sounds like it |
| 226 DigiHarp | Very nice cross between a real and a synthesized harp |
| 227 Winter night | Beautiful tremolo synth |
| 228 Krystal Bell | Classic digital bells, very hypnotic |
| 229 Remember D50 | Inspired by the classic (and my favorite patch) preset 61 "Staccato Heaven" on the Roland D-50 |
| 230 FrmntSwpBell | Intriguing, evolving synth pad |
| 231 Steamwires | A cross between a treated Harpsichord sound from the 1960s, and an analog synth |
| 232 Enigmatics | fx |
| 233 Sympathizer | Typical V-Synth sonic flavor |
| 234 Kalimberd | Nice woody synth |
| 235 Piggy Picker | Happy sound! |
| 236 MidEastDrone | Enchanting Middle-Eastern set |
| 237 Gangescape | Beautiful Indian set |
| 238 Distant Land | Resonant ethnic instrument |
| 239 Ethno Synth | OK |
| 240 OTODAMA | Nice dance synth |
| 241 Buzzards | Cool and curious percussion patch |
| 242 Scale tuned | Very nice Arabic style tuning |
| 243 Clip Clop | Sounds like a horse walking |
| 244 Metal Pearls | Great arpeggio fx |
| 245 Coffee Break | Cute sounds of pebbles being thrown in an unknown galaxy |
| 246 Vudu | Different |
| 247 Dyna Dholak | Nice dholak samples |
| 248 Dyna Tabla | Nice tabla samples |
| 249 Kick Menu | Slamming kick drums |
| 250 Snr&Tom Menu | Classic snare drum and tom tom sounds |
| 251 Rave Cave | Very cool House hook synth |
| 252 11 Staccato | ROMpler meets synth |
| 253 HitSymphoniq | Orchestral sample in hyperspace |
| 254 Fire Bird | Stupendous - more orchestral samples being mangled the V way |
| 255 V-ocoder | Bouncy |
| 256 SpectraPiano | Beautiful Ambient/New Age sonic landscape!! |
| 257 AquaticPiano | Fantastic Harold Budd/Brian Eno type of sound, with stream in the background |
| 258 JD Piano | Quintessential House piano of the early 1990s - percussive and bright. Inspired by the Roland JD series' piano sound |
| 259 MK-80 Rhodes | Excellent Rhodes with tremolo - inspired by Roland/Rhodes' MK-80 |
| 260 Piano Warp | Nice atmosphere sound |
| 261 Vox Clavi | Cool Clavinet sound with groovy, guttural wah-wah sound |
| 262 Keywave Klav | Totally 1970s :-) |
| 263 FM V-Klav | OK |
| 264 V-Lo Klaver | Tasty Clavinet |
| 265 ClaviWahWah | Realistic Clavinet through wah wah |
| 266 Nylon Shapes | Gorgeous acoustic guitar patch |
| 267 OpticalOrgan | Early tape-based organ sound |
| 268 Prog Organ | Classic overdriven Hammond of the 1970s Progressive Rock style |
| 269 CathedrlPipe | Yep |
| 270 Wave Bass | Excellent Moog bass |
| 271 Voyager Base | A nod to the Minimoog Voyager |
| 272 Boogie Bs | Classic 1970s Funk bass |
| 273 Blackness Bs | More synth bass |
| 274 Mini$@#Right | Cool vocoded/phased, rhythmic synth |
| 275 Reso Atk Bs | Killer synthesizer bass, with a lot of 'bite' and resonance |
| 276 Dark Bass | Yep... |
| 277 Mini Me | Another great Minimoog emulation |
| 278 Dance Bs 1 | Hollow syn bass |
| 279 Dance Bs 2 | Short decay syn bass |
| 280 Kick Bass | Low frequency bass |
| 281 BassTryAfter | Groovy bass |
| 282 WShapeBass1 | Reminds of the Chemical Brothers a bit |
| 283 WShapeBass2 | Fretless synth bass |
| 284 Retro-Singer | Excellent and weird opera female vox |
| 285 DigiDharma | Superb setup inspired by Bollywood |
| 286 SpyCarGetawy | Cool modern d 'n' b cinematic setup |
| 287 Harem Dance | Exquisite split with loop on the left and middle-eastern violin on the right |
| Roland V-Synth | |
| Year of release: | 2003 |
| Polyphony: | 24-voices |
| Sound generation method: |
Analog Modeling, PCM / VariPhrase (Preset waveforms + Sampling waveforms), External Input |
| Preset memories | 512 (287 presets) |
| MIDI: | in, out, thru |
| Sound expansion capabilities: | D-50 and Vocal cards, sampling |
| Sequencer | no (V2 has Multi-Step modulator) |
| Arpeggiator | yes |
| Effects | yes |
| Velocity | yes |
| Aftertouch | yes |
Resources:
available at www.rolandus.com
| SITE | Type of resource | DESCRIPTION |
| www.roland.com | Manufacturer site | home page |
Roland V-Synth Version 1 review with audio demo - August 16, 2008