If Roland made a D50 vst emulation, would you purchase it?

[Ingonator]

Without reading through all the pages of posts on here, I wonder if the one you keep (after the 12 months is up) can be sold/transferred to someone else? After paying all that money I wouldn't sell it, but someone else might.

So far what i just posted above is all information i found about the loyalty program at the moment. Anyway this is from the FAQ at Roland Cloud website and there is no official/final announcement yet.

Due to that and the time Roland Cloud is running so far nobody should have an experience with receiving a plugin after the 12 months yet.

[Examigan]

Without reading through all the pages of posts on here, I wonder if the one you keep (after the 12 months is up) can be sold/transferred to someone else? After paying all that money I wouldn't sell it, but someone else might.

So far what i just posted above is all information i found about the loyalty program at the moment. Anyway this is from the FAQ at Roland Cloud website and there is no official/final announcement yet.

Due to that and the time Roland Cloud is running so far nobody should have an experience with receiving a plugin after the 12 months yet.

Ok thanks, I just read it once again and I thought this part was a bit nuts

"It doesn’t matter that this instrument or studio tool would individually sell for more than the cost of your basic subscription over 12-month period." They think it is worth more than the whole year of payments for the subscription? No way.

I wonder what Roland thinks it is worth. I mean...it is just one plugin. $300? $350?

[nix808]

it might have cost them that much to make it?

I like this whole movement-
Roland will end up being crack at making VSTs

[Caine123]

wrong topic delete

[Aloysius]

Not a VSTi but ...

Cool to see Legowelt presenting this one.

D-05 Linear Synthesizer

Perfect sonic recreation of the D-50 from the makers of the original.

[Examigan]

Not a VSTi but ...

Cool to see Legowelt presenting this one.

D-05 Linear Synthesizer

I found it online for $349. I think I'd rather get this instead, especially if I have spend all those $$ on the subscription just to get the software version. It would be cool if they gave you a software editor with the hardware to make some of the editing easier.

[fmr]

Not a VSTi but ...

Cool to see Legowelt presenting this one.

D-05 Linear Synthesizer

I found it online for $349. I think I'd rather get this instead, especially if I have spend all those $$ on the subscription just to get the software version. It would be cool if they gave you a software editor with the hardware to make some of the editing easier.

If hardware and software sound the same (and I bet they will, since this isn't more than a dedicated hardware host for the same software) soft D-50 will always be a better choice.

If not for anything else, because you can open several instances, therefore, having several D-50 at once, which will never be the case with the hardware.

[Aloysius]

The ''cloud'' system doesn't suit everyone.

[Examigan]

Not a VSTi but ...

Cool to see Legowelt presenting this one.

D-05 Linear Synthesizer

I found it online for $349. I think I'd rather get this instead, especially if I have spend all those $$ on the subscription just to get the software version. It would be cool if they gave you a software editor with the hardware to make some of the editing easier.

If hardware and software sound the same (and I bet they will, since this isn't more than a dedicated hardware host for the same software) soft D-50 will always be a better choice.

If not for anything else, because you can open several instances, therefore, having several D-50 at once, which will never be the case with the hardware.

You're right, but I'd still like one of these and the SE-02.

[cyberheater]

Not a VSTi but ...

Cool to see Legowelt presenting this one.

D-05 Linear Synthesizer

Perfect sonic recreation of the D-50 from the makers of the original.

Looks great. Thanks for the information.

[Aloysius]

[aMUSEd]

Not a VSTi but ...

Cool to see Legowelt presenting this one.

D-05 Linear Synthesizer

Perfect sonic recreation of the D-50 from the makers of the original.

Looks great. Thanks for the information.

Wow

[D-Fusion]

Not a VSTi but ...

Cool to see Legowelt presenting this one.

D-05 Linear Synthesizer

I found it online for $349. I think I'd rather get this instead, especially if I have spend all those $$ on the subscription just to get the software version. It would be cool if they gave you a software editor with the hardware to make some of the editing easier.

If hardware and software sound the same (and I bet they will, since this isn't more than a dedicated hardware host for the same software) soft D-50 will always be a better choice.

If not for anything else, because you can open several instances, therefore, having several D-50 at once, which will never be the case with the hardware.

That depends on how long Roland is interested in this project with this crappy software protection.

Atleast the d-05 will continue to work after they loose interest and start on something else.

just look at the example of bought plugouts from the roland content store where we now have to pay to the cloud subscription to be able to get the latest version.

Latest version of system 1 for example is 1.01 in the content store and 1.05 in the cloud version.

So us who bought plugouts from contentstore are already screwed since v. 1.05 can only be registered thru the cloud subscription and not from your content store account :/

Updated news.
I spoke to the Roland Cloud team and they told me that it is only the copy protection that has changed in those 2 different versions and both the cloud and contentstore will get the same updates when there is something new in the plugouts that can be bought from content store

[Caine123]

Does anyone know how i can subscribe as german?

[aMUSEd]

Not a VSTi but ...

Cool to see Legowelt presenting this one.

D-05 Linear Synthesizer

I found it online for $349. I think I'd rather get this instead, especially if I have spend all those $$ on the subscription just to get the software version. It would be cool if they gave you a software editor with the hardware to make some of the editing easier.

Me too - I would ideally have liked to get hold of the D50 card for my V-Synth but they are very hard to come by these days and just as expensive, this is probably the better option overall.