What are your favorire 90s rompler presets?

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Re: What are your favorire 90s rompler presets?

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commodorejohn wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 8:31 pm Well, this thread made me finally get around to pulling the trigger on a TG500...
commodorejohn wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 1:33 am I really need to dig into my X5DR at some point. It's a solid second-generation ROMpler, although I do remain baffled that AFAIK only the Yamaha TG-500 ever implemented proper resonant filters.
It's the only rompler I still have (aside from a Yamaha RM50 drum rompler). It's great, has 90s character but not low-fi (I use old samplers for that). Good for ethereal pads and basic polysynth sounds that sit well in a mix. The FX are usable and I honestly don't find it impossible to edit from the front panel. The filters a decent too. Some of the Kawai romplers had digital filters, my K4r probably had the one with the most character and I'm pretty sure it was resonant. Didn't the Ensoniq romplers have resonant filters?
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Good question - I never got into the all-digital Ensoniq stuff, just the Mirage and the SQ-80.
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I haven't sold my Korg 05R/W just for the "Hackbrett" preset. Whenever I play the 05R/W to search for other useable sounds, I stop there and lose at least half an hour just doodling around.
Oh, the drums are nice, too.

The same ist true about the "Touch Piano" preset on my Kurzweil 150. But that's from the 80s, and while it's a realistic-sounding piano, the K150 would probably insulted being called a ROMpler...

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Feinstrom wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2020 2:45 am
Oh, the drums are nice, too.
I love rompler drum kits. The Yamaha RM50 is a joy to sequence with an Octatrack and a lot of the roms sound great and weird when transposed to extreme pitch.
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daphnid wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2020 5:10 am
Feinstrom wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2020 2:45 am
Oh, the drums are nice, too.
I love rompler drum kits. The Yamaha RM50 is a joy to sequence with an Octatrack and a lot of the roms sound great and weird when transposed to extreme pitch.
Now we're going slightly OT, but on Circuitbenders.co.uk I recently saw a breakout box for Roland R8/R8m, which goes directly into the waveform slot and turns the humble R8 into hell itself, without any circuitbending!

And now back to ROMpler presets please!
The "Super Brass" (I think that was the name - patch number 32) sold the JD-800 to me in 1991, and I still have it. But I really shy away from calling the JD-800 a ROMpler...

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