Roland V-Synth GT 61-key Synthesizer Reviews

61-key Variable Oscillator Synthesizer/Sampler with Touch-screen Display, Dual-core Sound Generator, and 28 Voices of Polyphony

The Roland V-Synth GT builds on the original V-Synth, which is renowned by performers and sound designers alike for its expressive synthesis and sound design capabilities. The next-generation V-Synth GT merges the company's innovative Elastic Audio Engine with the Articulative Phrase Synthesis technology to form a new synth with ultra-realistic sounds and amazing expression capabilities. Features such as speed programming, Articulative Phrase Synthesis, and powerful analog modeling ability allow you to break sonic boundaries and create never-before-heard sounds with the Roland V-Synth GT!

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Carson McClain

Sweetwater

Sales Engineer

If you are researching the V-Synth GT you already know that you need it in your studio. My favorite part about it is the ability to have complete control, or complete lack of control, over your sound. The built-in patches serve as a template for endless creative possibilities and really give you a birds-eye view of what can be done with this monster. Perfect for hip-hop, ambient, dance, industrial, or sound design.

Robby Resnick

Sweetwater

Sales Engineer

The V-Synth GT is an amazing virtual synthesizer. It comes with a slew of presets out of the box including powerful synths as well as models of real instruments like pianos and drums. The deep, user-friendly controls of this unit center around the bright, full-color LCD. The interface is icon oriented, so it's easy to navigate and fun to use. The V-Synth will stream MIDI through USB. It has several digital audio options as well. The routing is flexible and nearly infinite. The vocoder engine is also amazingly powerful and can be used with nearly every sound if you route it correctly. The V-Synth GT follows the path of real analog synthesis, but it can do so much more!

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By Matt baginski from Philadelphia, PA on February 7, 2012 Music Background: Musician

I purchased this synth as a complementing synth to my Roland Fantom G. Wow was I impressed by the ease of programming and the diversity of sound that can be pulled from this machine. This synth is loaded with lot's of great controllers for expression and manipulating sounds. I love importing my own sounds and making full-fledged synth patches out of them using the Elastic Audio section. The VA section is top shelf with everything you would ever want in an analog synth and it reminds me of a JP-8000 on steroids. I have not even touched the Vocal Designer section of this synth yet and I have owned it for over 6 months. The effects section is enormous and has everything you would ever need including Amp modeling. The only con of the Vsynth is that it is not expandable but does have 64MB of memory on board. Very powerful, easy to program, lots of controllers, and one beautiful looking synth. Roland has a real sleeper here that most people don't even know about.

By Marvin Querido from Manila, Philippines on November 10, 2008 Music Background: Musical Arranger, Studio Owner, Record Producer, Session Keyboardist.

I've had quite a number of keyboards for the past almost 22 years (at some point in time I've had more than a dozen, not counting the modules), and this is the first synth in a very, very long time that didn't sound like an improved version of their past synths. This is something else. When I tried the V-Synth GT in the store, I wasn't really planning to get a new keyboard, but it didn't take long until I reserved the unit, and very quickly found a way to afford it.

It ain't cheap. But you get more than you pay for.

By jimmy dean from US on May 1, 2008 Music Background: hobbyist.

blam...
this is A REALLY great keyboard. IF you don't read any of the manual it may be a little confusing at first but it is really easy to get used to.
touchscreen works great. simple navigation through every part of sound creation.
soooo many ways to control pretty much any part of your sound live. knobs are great, but the time t p works great (so does the d-beam). aftertouch is smooth and works great with ap synth instruments.
downsides: effects are a little slim, and there is no really good way to make backbeats and tracks like you could on a workstation. I use mine to record and make tracks on ableton, so I can create that stuff on my computer.
a little expensive but still amazing

By Thom Brennan from Seattle, WA USA on January 25, 2009 Music Background: Indie Musician, Producer, Synthesist

A bit pricey, but the GT is simply the most innovative digital synth since the DX7. Highly expressive, and unlike most digital synths- very enjoyable to program and tweak from the front panel. In fact- you wouldnt want it any other way because the color screen is the best interaction I have ever had with a synth. I think of it as a hybrid of just about every major synth engine to date, and while its not a workstation- with some creativity in can be an all in one box system- especially if you do avante garde or experimental music. The AP synthesis creates very expressive leads, and the 2 layers of V-synth engines - each of which can be separated into 16 sounds mapped across the keys- can create very dense walls of living, organic, electric sound.

The arpeggiator is Rolands best, and the new Version 2 free upgrade fixes many of the wish list items I had. The V-synth line deserves a special place in synth history- and hopefully its not over yet.

Roland V-Synth GT 61-key Synthesizer Reviews