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Given Roland's track record, the sort of technology found in
the VP9000 will probably appear in future Roland/BOSS products at far lower
prices. Probably with far less control allowed to the user as well, but
you get what you pay for. :)
I have no problem with keyboards like the Triton. It's
still up to the craftsman to make his art, not his/her tools. I mean,
there are people out there doing crazy things like ripping open Speak N Spells
and bending their circuits to transform them into new musical
instruments.
Paolo
How bout the VP9000, Roland's new phrase
sampler/time-pitch-groove-formant shifter? Super-pricey, but perhaps
kind of unique and novel. Aren't we all sick of the current mainstream
designs with the heavy emphasis on specialized application for timely, trendy
styles of music. I like dance music and so on a LOT, but love
open-endedness and cultural innovation much more. It was these kinds of
flexible designs that gave rise to the interesting shift towards
electronic-experimental-cerebral-yet-physical music culture. But the
companies seem to want to let marketing decide on design, like so much of our
culture, and they really are selling out the future in favor of the present.
I'm excited about my Nord Modular on its way, for these
reasons.
People also seem to criticize the
all-purposeness of things like the Triton or JV-2080, and so forth, but the
expense of the VP-9000 makes me wish it were more generally
useful.
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