Adrian Scott is a rare breed of musician -- having forged multiple careers as a performer, musical director, writer, producer, demonstrator and sound designer. His credits are like reading a timeline of popular music. From touring the world with such legendary groups as Air Supply and Little River Band to being music supervisor/director for a multitude of Australian acts, including Kylie Minogue.
Adrian has also been involved with Roland for more than 30 years, starting out as a demonstrator, then moving into R&D and sound creation. He has been instrumental in the development of Roland synthesizers, having contributed sonically to many of Roland's most beloved and celebrated synthesizers and sequencers, including the legendary D-50.
In this video Adrian looks back and fondly remembers his time working on the D-50 and his stories make for compelling viewing for any synth buff.
Eric Persing has had a unique and influential relationship with Roland Corp for two decades. He started as a product demonstrator in 1984, showing some of Roland's first MIDI instruments. He quickly became involved in the R&D side with Roland Japan, earning the title "Chief Sound Designer", and began contributing his design ideas, real-world studio experience and sound design expertise. Persing's skills have left their mark on countless classic Roland instruments.
He is the originator of many legendary Roland sounds that have become part of the vocabulary and lexicon of musical sound. These include the Factory D-50 sounds such as Fantasia, Soundtrack and Digital Native Dance, a majority of the JV/XP/XV series Classics, all the Factory JD-800 sounds, the original Juno "Hoover" sound and thousands of others.
In this video, we were able to catch up with Eric 30 years after the launch of the D-50 to celebrate his memories of our legendary synth.
D-05: www.roland.com/products/d-05/
D-50 30th Anniversary Page: www.roland.com/promos/d-50_30...