V-SYNTH OS 2.0 IS AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD!!!

It is slowly starting to dawn on me:

Every patch using v1.x ROM wave sounds, including every of your self-built patches using v1.x ROM wave sounds is killed in V2.0. (Mind you I have to test this myself, I've based this on the reports from others.)

So if I want to play the sounds I use in my songs and on my album, I have to go back to v1.51.

I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!!!! ((

Please tell me this isn't the case. I have so many (tweaked) v1.x sounds!

Apparently, there is a readme file that comes with the US version of the V2.0 update that says this:

"Note About ═Version 1 Patch Compatibility: Patches created in Version 1.xx ═that use Preset PCM waveforms will NOT be compatible with version 2.xx. ═Patches that used User waveforms or Patches that use an Analog Oscillator or ═an External Input Oscillator are compatible with Version 2.xx."

So I'm f'ed...

First just want to say the new sounds on 2.0 are absolutely fantastic system seems really good etc...etc...

However I have to agree with many of the rest of you that it is extremely annoying not to be able to use the original sounds from 1.51

I thought I had saved my internal setup only to realise that as already mentioned saving the internal project doesn't save the waves!!!!!! you get those nice WOO files. Well whoop di doo fat lot of good they are. As I sure is the same for the rest of you I now have to go back and spend many hours reprogramming sounds and patches for the bands I work with even though I have already done this ..ARRRRRGH!!!!!!

I wonder if the designer from microsoft has moved to Roland??!??!

Can we all make a big plea to Roland to release the original WAVES so we can use our old sounds as was suggested earlier.

cheers the Sherriff

Dammit I've got some kickass v1 sounds I really don't want to lose! So glad I read this thread. So is there a way to upload the original ROM waveforms from v1 to a computer as well as patches; then d/l them back into v2 as "user waveforms" so that user created v1 patches can be recreated in v2? It seems like a lot of work but it would be worth it to retrieve all the work that has been done in system 1.

Can the preset ROM sounds be copied into the user waveforms area so that a modified patch becomes a 100% user patch - which can then be uploaded to the computer and downloaded to v2 asa compatible user patch once it is installed.

*will work on it*

*heck, bunch of work to do before I can upgrade*.

Yeah there's definitely a microsoft vibe to this.... A.N.

There is no way to copy the version 1.x waveforms into your version 2.x projects. Roland copy-protected all the original 1.x waveforms so you cannot edit or copy them. This is likely because some of them actually came from their other sample-playback synths and expansion boards. Nevertheless, it really does not make upgrading to version 2.00 desirable for people who have large libraries of patches based on the internal samples. I'm luckily not part of that group, but I certainly understand.

Regards,

Nathan Sheldon
http://www.nathansheldon.con/

yea i suspected this might happen so I held off on introducing my V-synth into any songs untill after version 2.0. what a great idea. but honestly I was gravely disapointed in the quality and lack of creativity in the stock sounds of 1.xx, after upgrading to 1.5 i was happier with the interface and some of the very needed filters and such. but still something to be desired in the patches...

simply put 2.0 is what I expected in the very beginning. very well thought out patches with fantastic implementations of arpeggios and filters and LOOKIT!!! step modulation!!!! oh yea!!. the time trip pad is used more realisticly and over all i would rate this version a 9.9 it complements the well built hardware of this synth perfectly.

ahh to tame this amazing beast of a synth!!!

It would be a lot of work, but what about creating a vanilla PCM patch and using the internal resampling mode to sample each "sample"?
-grimley

Ah well. At least the bass sound on my new track is one of the virtual analog ones so I can keep it.

So, when they come out with version 3.0 are we all going to be in the same predicament all over again?

"vanilla" ... hehe