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Zylfux, this is the most ignorent post I've seen on tech forums in a while. If you think you know me so well, go aheag, tell me what city I am from, what other gear do I use and what kind of music do I play. If you did some freaking research you suggested, you would know who the hell you talking to. So you may actually read over your reply before you hit that "post message" button and Never post it, because your conclusions make no sense and unless you have the crystal ball pr psycheatrist license, you should keep it just as it is- your personal impression. If you see me on Roland clan forums, it should cross your mind that I did at least enough research to make it that far. I've done my reading 20 years ago. Now I look at keyboard and I can tell what it can do and how it sounds- nothing comes as surprise any more.

Artemiy, thanks for link again. My memory is so overloaded. If I load V-Synth 2.0, how do I get back to V-Synth GT sounds? Do I do system restore, or should I just save it as a project and simply load GT 2.0? And how about GT 1.0? If I want those sounds again- how do I downgrade from 2.0? Thanks.

Vlada, please don't wind up that much First of all, for a few months, we are trying to help you solve your problems. And note that our vision of the V-Synth is different than yours.

As to loading sounds into the GT, you should copy the various projects you've downloaded onto a USB drive, then load the one you want via the project menu.

"Zylfux, this is the most ignorent post I've seen on tech forums in a while."

Interesting, because I feel your initial post seemed considerably more ignorant due to your lack of prior knowledge about the simple features and capabilities of the V-Synth GT. Plus your derogatory changing of my user name shows that you are rude as well.

If this isn't the case then why are there 4 pages of posts trying to politely explain to you that you probably should be more proactive about doing simple things like downloading readily available patches instead of whining about some Roland factory presets?

"If you did some freaking research you suggested, you would know who the hell you talking to."

With a statement like this it doesn't take a Rocket Surgeon to understand that you think you are superior to me. How nice for your ego. Trouble is, if you were truly a music professional or a celebrity of any status you wouldn't be on a forum whining about Rolands 300 factory presets for $3000 you'd be at the Roland factory helping choose them instead.

The point is that arguing that V-Synth is good board is silly- it is obviously top line great sounding board. That's a given. It's like arguing that Toyota is a good car. Everybody knows that. I do not compare V-Synth to $300 Casio. It definitely blows away Nord Lead, Supernova, and gets close to Access Virus. It's a great board, ok. That was not even a topic of discussion. The topic was the number of sounds, and Roland did not invest enough in to development of it- that's my opinion. I will not program the soundset for Roland because this is not my specialty, but if you had GT and Roland offered you to make a soundset- would you refuse? And how much would you expect to get paid? Not enough to put Roland out of business I am sure. The point is that they could afford development. It does not coast too much. What you mean- your opinion about board is different- do you mean- you would not appreciate more sounds? I find it fascinating to hear- from some one who selling the sounds for living. It should be good for your business to agree with me and convince people to buy more sounds. Saying that there is enough sounds just as it is is in no way good for your sells. Fighting opinion that Roland needs to invest in to sound development is counterproductive for some one who actually involved with Roland and would be one of first who may benefit if Roland decides to offer you a contract. So if tomorrow Roland calls you and says- they going to send you the board and very promising offer because they need more sounds- are you going to tell them that GT has enough sounds and they wasting their time?

May be I missing it some where in your replies: one more time- so how do I load version 1 of GT? Is it the Factory restore, where should be 2 options for Version 1.0 and 2.0?

Zylfrax? I like that name. Very catchy. If you were not freaking ignorant, you would see me talking about audtioning V-Synth in a store right in a first post at the top of the thread. It took years of reading and watching the videos and drooling about this board before I could actually afford it. And while you trying to tell me about V-Synth based on your research, I actually have it right here in front of me. So- guess who wins!

"And while you trying to tell me about V-Synth based on your research, I actually have it right here in front of me. So- guess who wins!"

Wins? I didn't know owning musical instruments was a competition...

Let me keep it simple because you keep straying from the original topic that you brought up.

You made the complaint that your new Roland V-Synth GT only had 316 factory presets and not enough of them were "electronica/industrial/noize" and you divided the price of the synth by the number of patches and somehow translated this into the worth of the synth. This makes no sense to me.

Unlike everyone prior to me who softballed you I basically made the assertion that you:

A. didn't bother to go online and look at the patch banks in the pdf file...
B. didn't bother to seach online for the virtual plethora of patches available for download...
C. didn't bother to read the manual fully and create patches from scratch...

Care to respond to those points?

In closing, its my opinion that you should spend some time digging deep into the workings of your V-Synth and program some patches from scratch instead of blaming Roland and compaining about various other trivial issues that are more related to you and not the synth. If it was up to me I'd like to be able to overwrite factory patches. I think its an incredible machine and would like to find a used one at some point.

Anyway, you shouldn't take things so personally. If you don't want feedback then don't ask any questions. Maybe if you lightened up and weren't so sensitive you wouldn't have to resort to making fun of my user name.

Astral, I do not like the tone of your posts, and the smell of disrespect to people who are trying to help you. Nor I understand why you're writing so much rant here and not actually loading the sounds that I gave you links for several weeks ago. If you're so talented and famous, you should hire a keyboard technician to solve all this for you, and not try to push on people who are giving you free help at a forum.

I don’t like the tone of whole thread. I do appreciate the links with the sounds, but I do not need any one to tell me I am dumb and don’t know what I am doing. I am talented- yes, and have enough material I produced to back it up. And I especially do not need some auto body mechanic (yes, Zylfrax, I did my research on you and so you posting on Jeep and other car fans forums- not that anything wrong with it- just- what is your real name and where can I download some music?) who thinks he is so good- he wishes he can overwrite Roland factory sounds and make new ones better, telling me I NEVER. Never is not ever a word in English dictionary. One should NEVER approach anyone with “never” assumptions. And I can show you post after post after post with disrespectful remarks.

1. You never bothered to research the specs on this keyboard at all, whether it be reading the Roland website or online reviews of any kind. Plus you never downloaded the manual and scanned through it as well.

2. You never bothered to check out the thousands of YouTube videos dedicated to the V-Synth GT before you bought it either.

3. You never bothered to go to a music store and spend an hour playing the board and running through the preset patches and the other features of the board. This took me about 40 minutes.

4. Once you got the keyboard home its "really" obvious that you didn't take any time to fully read the manual or again check out any of the online tutorials online either. Nor did you bother to start digging around the internet looking for patches.

Artemiy, if you do not see anything wrong with this post- you must be thinking the same thing, and it’s disturbing. I don’t even want to bother to reply to it because it keeps going on and on after I replyed and pointed out that assumption is incorrect.

A. didn't bother to go online and look at the patch banks in the pdf file...
B. didn't bother to seach online for the virtual plethora of patches available for download...
C. didn't bother to read the manual fully and create patches from scratch...

So no- I don’t care to respond to these points- it is pointless. I am not here to explain myself. I do still believe- there is not enough factory presets for the money. And no number of available online sounds will convince me otherwise, unless it offered by Roland. I did see those available projects from leading keyboardists. Most of them genre-specific- I’m going to get to them when I have chance- I was not impressed by demos. Free help? Ok. I do appreciate those who are helpful, and I am trying to be useful to the best of my abilities, also- believe- Roland has to provide tech support to it’s product, and public forums are one of the ways they doing it to lessen the load of phone support. I greatly thankful to all volunteers, also I wanted to ask if this is official Roland support forums, because if it is not- I would like to know if there any available. And if it is- I am surprised- there is no one from Roland to offer assistance. Also, Artemiy, buying sounds from you is a way to hire some one to solve the sound issue, and I am glad you are available. Why don’t I load sounds of original V-Synth? Because I keep asking, how do I go back to Factory- just by turning the board off and back on? And how do I get Version 1 sounds? Still did not hear answer. Not that you have to answer. I have a deadline in a few days and I’ve been going trough GT sounds over and over again and I can not find too-many useful once for what I need. Most of sounds having so much noise, and would take too much space in a mix. But then again- most likely that’s because I don’t know what I am doing- that’s the message I am getting along with helpful tips, and that’s ok. I’ll get back with you all later. Thanks for listening.

Astral, we assumed that you did not follow our advice, because we believe that we gave you proper suggestions on what to do. So if what we suggested did not work for you, and we tried hard, then I am sorry but we can't be of any more help. And you seem to blame Roland, their synth and us for the problems you have. I also see a big problem with the fact that you large up yourself here - "you don't know who I am", "I am talanted", etc. Sounds me like you have a complex, and can read what is not written (we never swore at you like you try to claim).

Anyways, as of loading sounds, you do it with the Load Project function in the project menu, and when you want to load the factory presets, you just load the project which resides in the internal memory.

I think the best solution for you is to get rid of the GT and get an used v-synth. You said you liked the sound of v-synth ver. 1 better, so you should be pretty content with the sound it provides. By doing so, you will be playing the presets on your v, getting around $1,000 back from the deal, and you will make somebody in your neighborhood very happy.

Oh well, I may as well put my tuppence worth in, everyone else has.

This thread has go to be the funniest I had read on Roland Clan, I think Astralv shoud get an award ! A: for wasting a vast amount of time on a pointless argument and B for buying a syntherziser that is marketed as a programers synth and a live performers synth.

I'm 44 years old and have been using synths since I was 11, I had contact in Korg who used to "lend" me the synths to play around with and boy, I have had them all.

for the price The V-Synth GT is the best sound creation device I have ever had the pleasure to use and own. There is no limit to what it can do, If I wanted Flutes and conventional instruments preset in a synth I would go buy a workstation (ie Fantom G), the GT is more than capable of emulating thos types of instruments and it will do Fabulously, but you best dig in and start programming.

The Roland Clan site has been very very helpfull in finding ways to do thing on this synth that are awlwys evident, and the people on here are dedicated to helping budding musos and offering free advice..... apart from one :¬)

...know who the hell you talking to.

this should be a standard opening line for every rolandclan post

"I did my research on you..."

lol... your "research" consists of typing my user name into Google... You didn't search hard enough cause I also post on a Quake forum. Question is, how is that relevant to your buyers remorse?

Let me give you some advice you can really use. Right from the start you said you were looking for some "electronica/industrial/noize" patches that were in the original V-Synth. Well I've demoed both of them and listened to pretty much every pre-set and neither one really had anything that was in that realm. Let me spell it out to you because you seem really hard headed and stubborn to accept peoples advice even though you asked for it.

IF YOU WANT FACTORY ELECTRONICA/INDUSTRIAL/NOIZE PATCHES YOU NEED TO TRADE IN YOUR V-SYNTH GT FOR AN ACCESS VIRUS TI VERSION 3.0!

Was that clear enough for you? The Virus makes the sounds you are looking for not the V-Synth GT OK?

You want to know something funny Astral, I can really identify with you... you know how? I've been married to a Ukrainian girl for 11 years and she's every bit as hard headed and stubborn as you but I love her anyway! lol... Its obvious to everyone here that you don't really want advice, you just want to vent...

With the re-release of everything Beatles this week, I can only say "Give Peace A Chance!"

Zylfrax, come on, Ukrainian girls are the best If my wife was not pushing me a little bit now and then, I would not be doing most of the things I am doing.