<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I’ve had the sub for a while now and they are some of my most used plugins - they sound great. They are pretty resource intensive tho. Also over time there have been a few weird behaviors, like you needing to login to reauthorize sometimes - and a weird bug where sounds you already had on tracks certain parameters would bug out. But have not had any major issues in a while. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I was looking into the MC-707 recently and I am kind of blown away by it - the synth/sampling/drum engines are insane, like super insane. So insane it’s weird they didn’t put a bigger screen on that thing, it should have one like the MPC Live, I guess it was a price thing and they were sticking to the performance orientated layout of the TR's. And yea realized the Xen connection. So you can design patch libraries for yourself on the computer with a big ol’ plugin and then sync them to the machine, and then fully be able to edit those patches on the machine - that’s pretty game changer.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">From what I can tell? the current Xen plugin in the roland cloud is a preset only player - the editor version will be avail in fall.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 25, 2020, at 5:31 PM, Mikael Hansson <<a href="mailto:forums@deadmengods.com" class="">forums@deadmengods.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">In light of getting the Roland MC-707 I have been checking out Rolands software offerings.<div class=""><a href="https://www.geextreme.com/news/roland-zenology-and-cloud-2-5/" class="">https://www.geextreme.com/news/roland-zenology-and-cloud-2-5/</a><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Seems they have re-thought their cloud solution a bit and you can now get different tiers, Free, Core, Pro and Ultimate. There’s also the possibility to buy the plugins which are essentially the same code as in the hardware instruments.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">One cool thing is the Xenology synthesizer which is the virtual version of their ZenCore system which is the model used in Fantom, Jupiter-X/Xm, RD-88 and the MC-707/101.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This makes it possible to edit and manage patches in the box and transfer them to your hardware or for instance create ideas on the hardware and then transfer the sound to the computer for the production/mixing stage. The current version is limited to 1 part (Roland lingo for layer) but the upcoming Pro version will have 4 parts, the same as the hardware.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Prices for buyouts seems reasonable, with the top end models like D50 or JP8 selling for $149.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">/Micke</div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">music-bar mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:music-bar@lists.music-bar.org" class="">music-bar@lists.music-bar.org</a><br class="">http://lists.music-bar.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/music-bar<br class=""><br class="">Listen to Music-Bar Radio! <http://www.music-bar.org/radio.html></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>