The Roland MT-32 - Part 2 of 2 - Retro Goodness
52Part 2 of my look into the Roland MT-32. Here we focus on what the MT-32 was designed for; a synthesizer to be hooked up to a keyboard! No life changing music here, I'm just going from instrument to instrument to see what they sound like. Feel free to check out part 1 where I look at the MT-32 as a computer sound device, but there is no continuity between the two parts.
For Part 1 click on this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2uYEabtviw
00:00 - Plug for Part 1
00:34 - Introduction
02:13 - Critical Step To Get The MT-32 To Play On A Keyboard
02:46 - Playing The MT-32
04:07 - A Piano On The MT-32
07:32 - An Organ
09:02 - Playing Part Of My Own Song With Synth Brass
10:42 - Fantasy
12:30 - Guitar
14:15 - Kyoto - A Trip To Japan!
16:10 - Honkey Tonk
17:03 - Misc Sounds
18:01 - Going Through Several Instruments Fast
19:14 - Playing Part Of A Song I wrote
19:48 - Funny
20:11 - NSlate
The Roland MT-32 was a late 1980's synthesyser marketed primarily toward home users, with quite a bit of features stripped from more professional offers from Roland. It was still a rather expensive device for the amateur audience, and reviews were not kind to the background noise it produced or its inability to produce a convincing piano sound. It used a combination of samples and syntheses, using uploaded samples of actual instruments for the attack and drums, while using synthesis for the sustain. This was dubbed as "LA Synthesis".
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