Bad Gear - Ri-di-cu-lous

Become a Patron and get access to music clips from the show, additional content, Bad Gear samples and even more AudioPilz madness Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world’s most hated audio tools. Today we are going to talk about the Roland JD-08. Is this digital synthesizer, member of the Roland Boutique family and miniscule version of the somewhat legendary Roland JD-800 a worthwhile alternative to the 1991 original? Did they emulate the red glue too? Is this synth just ri-di-cu-lous ? Thanks to Klangfarbe for helping me out with one of their Roland JD08 : I carpe diemed the hell out of Beeple’s public domain VJ loops in the finale: @beeple/about Chapters: 00:00 Intro tune 01:07 Overview Roland Boutique JD-08 01:45 Palette Faders 01:54 Displays, Menus, Differences to the Original 02:21 Polyphony, Engine, Tone Layers, Multitimbrality 03:03 Waveforms, ROM expansions (or lack thereof) 03:27 Filter (Roland Zenology) 03:52 Envelopes 04:19 LFOs, Additional Features 04:35 FX Section 04:52 Patches (Sound Examples) 05:22 Sequencer 05:45 Arpeggiator, Clock Input 05:53 What else??? (Noise Issues, Rear Panel, Pricing, Thanks) 06:22 Hate 06:47 Jam 1 07:40 Jam 2 08:41 Finale 09:16 Verdict