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Not sure if I should break it out into a separate thread. Work has been in avalanche mode and I haven't whipped up a thread in a while so why not?
First impressions:
So much goldilocks on the form factor. LOVE the size. Much more reasonable on the board real estate.
Tones are total Roland city. Obviously. Duh. Got a brass preset cooking. Not quite in the realm of my eternal GR55 cheese brass that works perfect. But closing in. Sax's, organs and pianos are all very good. More synthesized stuff (as opposed to "realistic" sounds) are really good. A lot of the sounds seem very DRY and gated. I'm going to dig into the nuance settings at some point soon as well as seeing about wetting things down a bit. Tracking (using the converter and a GK3) are in between the GR55 PCM sounds and SY1000 Dynamic Synths; I'd say?
Again; not sure how much benefit the GK5 will be over the converter. I am also using a standard TRS from the converter to the GM. Not sure if buying an official Boss cable will matter on this as well. I haven't boxed it back up; so that's a semi-good sign
I know there is some justified grumbling on the lack of magnetic pickup audio and control on the GK5 but as I sit here re-remembering for the bazillionth time not to set that goddamn GK3 pickup selector slider switch to anything other than mix; I am 1000% glad they are pulling the regular pickup signal out of the chain and just concentrating on the synth side.
First impressions:
So much goldilocks on the form factor. LOVE the size. Much more reasonable on the board real estate.
Tones are total Roland city. Obviously. Duh. Got a brass preset cooking. Not quite in the realm of my eternal GR55 cheese brass that works perfect. But closing in. Sax's, organs and pianos are all very good. More synthesized stuff (as opposed to "realistic" sounds) are really good. A lot of the sounds seem very DRY and gated. I'm going to dig into the nuance settings at some point soon as well as seeing about wetting things down a bit. Tracking (using the converter and a GK3) are in between the GR55 PCM sounds and SY1000 Dynamic Synths; I'd say?
Again; not sure how much benefit the GK5 will be over the converter. I am also using a standard TRS from the converter to the GM. Not sure if buying an official Boss cable will matter on this as well. I haven't boxed it back up; so that's a semi-good sign
I know there is some justified grumbling on the lack of magnetic pickup audio and control on the GK5 but as I sit here re-remembering for the bazillionth time not to set that goddamn GK3 pickup selector slider switch to anything other than mix; I am 1000% glad they are pulling the regular pickup signal out of the chain and just concentrating on the synth side.
