![]() ![]() This is clearly down to the quality of the circuit modelling, rather than inefficient code, but it’s something to be aware of. The System-8 hovers around 50% in Ableton Live’s CPU meter on a 3.3GHz i7 MacBook Pro with 16GB RAM, set to a 256-sample buffer, while the Juno-106 pegs at about 30%, and even the humble TR-808 demands about 13-15%. The price of such power is a hefty CPU hit, however. While the Concerto libraries are good to have, Roland Cloud’s main draws are undoubtedly the Aira and Legendary plugins, which look great and sound absolutely fantastic - all but indistinguishable from the real things, and genuinely evoking that authentic Roland vibe. Whether this section dies on the vine, we’ll see, but it’s not exactly a flying start. ![]() The seventh Series, Software Solutions, currently only has the six-year-old and not particularly useful R-Mix “mix manipulation” app for Windows rattling around within. ![]() Tera is all about acoustic instrument emulation, and at present offers a piano and a steel guitar Anthology serves up various classic Roland sounds from a range of specific years -1985, 1986, 1993, etc and Flavr comprises smaller libraries of genre-based presets - electro-house, disco, synthwave, etc. The Tera, Anthology and - cringe - Flavr Series are multisample libraries that load into the Concerto plugin. A few new features have been added, too, including multitrack pattern sequencers for the TRs, extra effects and waveforms for the 1080, increased polyphony for the Juno-106, and Plug-Out functionality for the analogue synths. The Legendary Series, meanwhile, hosts (at the time of writing) 12 virtual Roland instruments: the TR-808 and 909, SH-101, System-100, D-50, Jupiter-8, Juno-106, JV-1080, SRX Orchestra expansion board, Promars (a mad but worthy inclusion), SH-2 and Sound Canvas VA.Īlso using Roland’s ACB and DCB (Digital Circuit Behaviour) modelling, each and every one is simply astonishing in its sonic realism and playability. The plugins even enable communication with the corresponding hardware for hands-on control and bi-directional patch transfer. The first consists of emulations of the Aira System-1 and System-8, and with the software running the exact same ACB (Analog Circuit Behaviour) algorithms as their physical counterparts, they’re essentially flawless. The Aira and Legendary Series plugins are unarguably the main events. Roland Cloud Concerto is discussed in the boxout. You don’t have to be connected to Roland Cloud to use any of its instruments once they’re installed, incidentally, but your Mac or PC does have to be online for authentication once a week. ![]() RAINLINK is apparently already baked into the two Tera instruments in the form of a knob that increasingly blurs an adjacent sine wave graphic, but with no manuals available for them, it’s anyone’s guess as to what this control actually does - something to do with triggering resolution, we’re guessing. It also supports RAINLINK, Roland’s “high-definition music, sound, and video performance and control technology”, which will eventually enable improved rendering of local parts via multi-terabyte libraries in the cloud, amongst other things. Tera Piano and Guitar lose the filter and LFO, but add in the likes of Fret Shift and Lid Mix.Ĭoncerto is straightforward and easy to get to grips with, and its filter and reverb sound wonderful. Despite their varied colour schemes and layouts, the Anthology and Flavr instruments share a common control set, including a multimode resonant filter an LFO for modulation of amp, pitch, pan and filter cutoff amp and filter envelopes a convolution reverb and a limiter. While the Aira and Legendary Roland Cloud instrument Series are fully modelled emulations, the Tera, Anthology and Flavr Series are all multisample-based, loading as libraries into the Concerto engine.Ĭoncerto loads as an AU or VST plugin, and is 16-part multiimbral, so you can fill a single instance with multiple libraries, each on its own MIDI channel. ![]()
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