Mi rispondo da solo, ma con un ulteriore dilemma: la mia ricerca continua, e ho trovato quest'intervista a Ed Wynne dove afferma che il D50 è la tastiera più entusiasmante che lui conosca assieme alla Korg Wavestation (a parte la Waldorf Wave...) e parla anche molto bene del Korg Prophecy con il quale avrebbe sostituito il suo SCI Pro One:
Intervista a Ed Wynne
"[c]SYNTH ON A PLINTH
Ed once described himself as a creator of "keyboard textures" and there are some magnificent atmospheric sounds and passages to be found lurking on Ozric Tentacles recordings. A sizeable collection of electronic instruments has been amassed to assist in fulfilling this role.
"I've recently had my Roland D50 seen to. It came back all clean and nicely polished, with all the gaffa tape marks removed, so I've been getting right back into that and it's the most astonishing synth, sound-wise. The D50 and the Korg Wavestation are my two most favourite synths in the whole world -- apart from the Waldorf Wave.
"We expressed an interest in the Wave before it was available, so they let us borrow a prototype for a couple of weeks. I was a little shocked at its size, but the sounds it made were like nothing I've ever heard before, so I recorded a few onto DAT and spun them in on a couple of tracks on the Arborescence album. There's one track which starts with a very low mumbling, grumbling-type sound -- that's the Wave being its usual mad self! I went through all its sounds and came across nothing normal. You play a chord and hear a little grunt in one speaker whilst a kind of whistle moves across the other over a sizzling, distorted voice -- like a radio cracking up in the background -- with all this other ambience whizzing about! I don't know if it took off particularly well, because it just seemed like a synthesizer for loonies to me!"
More recent acquisitions on the keyboard front include a Novation BassStation (reviewed SOS July 1994 and July 1995), which Ed sees as a kind of "MIDIfied Pro One", and the Korg Prophecy, "which is an absolute joy -- one of the most amazing synths I've ever played, to be honest. A testament to its versatility is that I can now just take the Prophecy out live instead of the Pro One, which was my basic effects machine."
Not that Ed is about to put his beloved Sequential Circuits analogues out to pasture just yet: "They're getting on a bit and are a little unstable for live use, so they stay in the studio now, but I don't think I could make a track without my Pro Ones. They're on almost every single piece of music that I've ever done. All the bubbly sounds like the resonant swoops and what we call the 'waterfalls' -- a kind of fast, cascading series of relevant notes -- are Pro Ones. Pretty much all of the repetitive step-time sequences are still done on the internal sequencer. They're also good for bass drones and we still use them for lead synth sounds. I've often had to put a recorded bass drum into the Pro One's audio input to filter it and make it more 'clicky[/c]"
Ma se afferma così, perchè NON la usa mai? Che sia collegata via midi alla Supernova??? Mi pare strano.....
Ciao
Paolo