Are there somewhere some to load?
How many piano sounds contains the RD 2000? Many, but just one harpsichord.
And the default one is not the one I will like.
horst
Harpsichord / cembalo for RD 2000
Re: Harpsichord / cembalo for RD 2000
Harpsichord sounds were even completely left out of the Jupiter-50. Only rationale I can come up with is that Roland sells a dedicated digital harpsichord with modeled harpsichord action and they don't want to offer their best harpsichord sounds in cheaper instruments that would compete with the digital harpsichord.
Re: Harpsichord / cembalo for RD 2000
Maybe for my died mothers living room, but no alternative for my studio :-) .jalbert wrote: Roland C-30 harpsichord
Re: Harpsichord / cembalo for RD 2000
I use an Alesis QSR midi module to get a harpsichord sound as none were included in the 2000+ sounds of a Jupiter-50. An Alesis NanoPiano would accomplish the same thing although the QSR includes effects, and adding a little reverb improves the sound. You may try that with the harpsichord in your RD-2000. I doubt the old Alesis patch from the mid-1990’s is intrinsically superior, although I’ve nonetheless been impressed overall by how well the old Alesis QS sound engine has held up over time.
Re: Harpsichord / cembalo for RD 2000
This even more impressive digital harpsichord, is probably not to your liking either. These are expensive instruments— $5900 for the Roland C-30, no price published for the Martin DH, but I bet it is over $10,000. Roland has an incentive not to include their best harpsichords in cheaper keyboards.
Re: Harpsichord / cembalo for RD 2000
:-), no, you are true. I don't need that kind of housing and not two keyboards.jalbert wrote:This ... is probably not to your liking either.
I think I will look for a VSTi and will try to get a reasonable latency with my interface.
horst
Re: Harpsichord / cembalo for RD 2000
My comment was not quite true. The Jupiter-50 has no live set for harpsichord, but does have a tone 1818 buried in the user interface and manual for a harpsichord sound. Still it is not a fabulous harpsichord sound— perhaps similar to the one in an RD-2000.jalbert wrote:Harpsichord sounds were even completely left out of the Jupiter-50. Only rationale I can come up with is that Roland sells a dedicated digital harpsichord with modeled harpsichord action and they don't want to offer their best harpsichord sounds in cheaper instruments that would compete with the digital harpsichord.
Re: Harpsichord / cembalo for RD 2000
I looked at the list of sounds for an RD-2000 on the Roland US site. Are tones 197, 198, 199, 200 not acceptable? I would expect these to be good enough that the limiting factor is having to use a graded hammer keyboard that may/will defeat some harpsichord techniques.