{"id":6294,"date":"2014-09-05T11:21:50","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T18:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=6294"},"modified":"2014-09-05T11:21:50","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T18:21:50","slug":"another-new-toy-roland-sc-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/05\/another-new-toy-roland-sc-55\/","title":{"rendered":"another new toy: roland sc-55"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a Roland SC-55 MIDI Sound Canvas from 1991! I can now make all the noises you heard in any videogame in the 1990s.<\/p>\n


Cheese Factor Five, Mr. Worf – let’s see what’s out there.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

Okay, that’s an exaggeration, but honestly not much of one. I got it from Ben Deschamps via his internet yard sale, for, as he put it, “a six pack.” XD I also had to fix it after it arrived damaged in shipping – I’m pretty sure the post office punted<\/em> it here from New York State, given how quickly it arrived and<\/em> how the left side of the front panel was punched in.<\/p>\n

But hey, now I can say I’ve repaired<\/eM> a potentiometer<\/a>. Not replaced: repaired<\/em>. I did that because it’s custom and weird and was in three pieces. (Also the metal frame was bent, some parts got disconnected and also bent, a bit of the motherboard broke off but I’m pretty sure that was just a little bit of grounding pin and it’s already grounded. And I fixed all that, so it’s all good.)<\/p>\n

Anyway, it’s a Roland, and my A-30 MIDI keyboard is also<\/em> a Roland, and turns out, they know each other! Such a small world. All those useless buttons suddenly do things!<\/p>\n

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There is also a thunder and rain setting. This is hilarious<\/em>, mostly because there’s really only one thunder effect, so I can use it exactly once ever<\/em>. I have no plans to do so, but don’t push me, I got thunder.<\/em><\/p>\n


not me. okay, kinda me last night. but not really me.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

Honestly, though, while I expected mostly to be using it for things easy to get right (bells, chimes, simple pipes, synthy-effects, etc), this is 1990s pro gear. The strings and horns, while definitely cheesy, are much<\/em> less so than what you find in, say, Garage Band today. With the right tweaking and careful, careful playing – it respects key velocity, aftertouch, all those cool tweaks on my keyboard – I might be able to use more parts of it than I expected, maybe<\/em> even for the swing jazz version of Lisdoonvarna. That’d be awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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