Fearing for my career, and eager to return to music, I had picked up the XP-50 near the time of its release, third party, from a guy who'd only recently purchased it himself. I had purchased mine in the hopes of ending a 7-year drinking binge that had pulled me through 4 military posts, a few demotions, and a bad rep as the platoon party boy. What was so exciting, back then anyway, was that you could purchase additional sound banks, that were specialized to certain genres of music, or just dedicated to a particular type of arrangement, or instrument. Roland has always supplied great sound banks right out of the gate, and they did not stop with the XP/JV series. These patches, unless you had a computer with a decent patch editor, were the big prizes for many of us back then. The main drive, it seemed between all the companies, was to create workstation keyboards and rack mount devices that could cover a broad range of music with highly detailed, and broad ranging internal patches. Years ago, Roland was at the top of the pool, though there were competitors that were greatly pushing them around that time.
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