D-05 Linear Synthesizer

[raymondh]

Resurrecting this old thread, I changed my position and I'm awaiting delivery of my new D-05!

Primarily because I wanted a new compact hardware synth to spend birthday gift money, and something I could keep. Software is definitely more productive than the workflow of recording a single hardware instance, so we will see how much this gets used as opposed to sitting on the desk for nostalgia purposes!

I wasn't too keen on the idea before either, but my friend I'm doing this project with has a D-50 and I was quite impressed with some of those sounds... Pretty fitting for what we're doing... So it made sense to get the D-05 to be able to continue the project as we live quite some distance apart...

D.

It would be great to hear the results of your collab! Looking forward to hearing it if/when you're able to share!

[Creativemind]

How much is it? I've looked everywhere. The prices on the Roland site seem to be the hardest thing to find when it's pretty much one of the first things I want to find.

[raymondh]

How much is it? I've looked everywhere. The prices on the Roland site seem to be the hardest thing to find when it's pretty much one of the first things I want to find.

Yes it looks to be in very short supply. I'm paying NZ $550 for it. I saw a second hand one recently auctioning for $450 and decided I didn't need it. I blinked and next thing it was over $500 with the bids coming in!

[eusti]

How much is it? I've looked everywhere. The prices on the Roland site seem to be the hardest thing to find when it's pretty much one of the first things I want to find.

Yes it looks to be in very short supply. I'm paying NZ $550 for it. I saw a second hand one recently auctioning for $450 and decided I didn't need it. I blinked and next thing it was over $500 with the bids coming in!

Sweetwater (US) has it for $ 379.99 https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail ... ynthesizer
I found one in Germany for EUR 389.00 https://www.musikhaus-korn.de/en/roland ... /pd/139272 or with the K25 keyboard for EUR 419.00 https://www.musikhaus-korn.de/en/roland ... /pd/139272 .

D.

[eusti]

It would be great to hear the results of your collab! Looking forward to hearing it if/when you're able to share!

Will do when it's ready... Not Reason stuff though... I mean a lot of the songs originated in Reason, but then where developed further in Cubase... With me doing the vocal prep and FX in Reason... Thanks for asking!

D.

[gscroggin]

Having previously had a real D-50, D-550, and a JX-3P, I tried out the D-05 and JX-03 in a store back around Sept 2018. The only sound difference I could recognize was the lack of pot scratchiness on the JX-03 . Granted I wasn't doing a side-by-side comparison, but I did have those other boards for 20+ years, so I know the sounds and features pretty well. I realy dug the JP-08 as well, but I never had a real Jupiter so it was more of a general nostalgia thing for me. I think Roland absolutely nailed it with these things, assuming you're after those sounds of yesteryear.