Roland D-50 Celebration Moments with Mike Lindup
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6 жыл бұрынKeyboard legend Mike Lindup reminisces on how Roland’s D-50 synthesizer helped shape some of Level 42’s best-known tracks. Back in 1987, as their fame reached epidemic proportions, the band were spending most of their time on the road, playing arenas all over the world - both as headliners and opening for the likes of Madonna and Tina Turner. Needing to work on new material, Mike put together a studio that he could use on the road, which just happened to include a new and rather interesting Roland synth called the D-50…This hugely influential synth is now reborn as the Roland Boutique D-05 and is also available as a software synth plug-in via Roland Cloud.
D-05: www.roland.com/products/d-05/
D-50 30th Anniversary Page: www.roland.com/promos/d-50_30...
@balloontoyentertainment3684 6 жыл бұрын
Mike Lindup you are such a brilliant keyboardist and terrific singer!!!
@margix1172 6 жыл бұрын
Level 42 ...one of the VERY BEST band of all times!!!!!!!
@AtticusBleep 6 жыл бұрын
Great to see Mike again.
@AlmaLibreStudios 6 жыл бұрын
It's great to hear where some of these sounds we loved from bands like Level 42 came from...Awesome!
@Schumanized 5 жыл бұрын
I still have mine and it still sounds awsome!!! I just can't let it go!!
@mayemcdonald9111 6 жыл бұрын
I love this man’s talent. He has a great voice. I dream of seeing Level 42.❤️🎄💚
@perky26hughes 6 жыл бұрын
LOVE Mike Lindup.
@george00719 6 жыл бұрын
Staring at The Sun..soo cool
@garfield4108 5 жыл бұрын
Brilliant brilliant musician
@KOISANX 6 жыл бұрын
Great interview and bit of self promo :-)
@Mikeyp1054 4 жыл бұрын
Top guy looking good still man
@veerchasm1 3 жыл бұрын
Legendary keyboard player more people need to know
@marcuslambert8722 4 жыл бұрын
great keyboardist meeting great synth !
@unclefreddie1589 5 жыл бұрын
Is Mike playing a Level 42 song snippet from 1:00 to 1:30? If so, what song by them is it? It sounds beautiful. Thanks.
@BastianSchick 5 жыл бұрын
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@unclefreddie1589 5 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much@@BastianSchick!
@anonymusum 5 жыл бұрын
The D-50 was my musical partner on stage for over 20 years and somehow it still is as I replaced it with a Varios and a VC1 card which emulates the D-50 perfectly. In those days I had a Yamaha DX7 II, the D-50 and an MKS-20 which was the first pretty realistic piano module. Today the so called realistic sounds of a D-50 are outdated of course. But it still is a great synth for warm and spheric layers and atmosphere sounds. Unfortunately Roland didn´t follow that path and didn´t develop that concept and there would have been a lot to develop. For example: the synth engine wasn´t the best as was the effect unit. The attack samples could have been longer and there could have been much more of them when the memory space became bigger and bigger. I don´t know why Roland lost the thread in the last years. Today they mainly produce musical toys, aka boutique series etc. So profs like me prefer Yamaha, Korg or DSI etc. but Roland surely is missed as an innovator.
@framax67 4 жыл бұрын
L42 👍😉
@trumjohannsmancave 2 жыл бұрын
Check out a cool layered D-05 here😀 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j69mdblmmL7Mcpc.html
@issiewizzie 5 жыл бұрын
an education
@annother3350 4 жыл бұрын
4 note polyphony is a deal breaker. 6 note poly i would consider.
@Andy-G 4 ай бұрын
Your comment is now 4 years old, But the D-05 has 16 voices polyphony.
@meechobrown3052 4 жыл бұрын
Is he biracial??
@elsongs 4 жыл бұрын
Yes, his father is English and his mother is Belizean singer Nadia Cattouse.
@TheOptimod 3 жыл бұрын
Like it matters.
@BatDadx 3 жыл бұрын
Yes and beautiful. Like all of us are 😉
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