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I purchased the RD-700NX as a family piano. Have been loving the various sounds, but am now interested in tweeking them, but find the process cumbersome. Is there a software editor for the mac or another approach that might make this easier than digging thru menus?

Now THAT would be a great idea. And Roland has editors for all the modules they make, so it couldn't be that hard for them to do it in house.

You have to take a look at Roland's MIDI implementation for the RD-700. Then if any of the parameters are controllable via MIDI that can be mapped A program like Apple's "Logic" could assign them to a physical control surface or assign a set of presets to a drum pad. There are virtual control surfaces on the iPad so you could move a picture of a slider on the iPad to control some function you have assigned to it. But this requires some effort to set up. I don't think this is exactly what you were looking for but it would make the instrument easier to use

I find the NX user interface quite easy to navigate. Hats off to Roland for allowing full configuration via the front panel (and via SYSEX)!

Slightly OT, we owned a JV-1010 module and it required a PC editor to do even the shallowest of dives - Roland didn't maintain the editor so it didn't work well at all in XP, and in the end we couldn't use perfectly decent hardware for lack of PC support (and it was difficult to resell with a clear conscience). That experience turned me off entirely to units that have features only accessible via USB / MIDI editors (e.g. Korg SV-1, etc.).

I had one of these units also: the OS stank, whilst the sound set was quite good for the time.

Shouldn't it be "the OS stunk," instead?

I believe both are correct

Much stank / stunk, actually. The line level out was really low, even for a consumer grade product, with attendant poor SNR. Spinning the voice selection rotary encoder too fast would make the box lock up, probably a poorly handled processor interrupt / insufficient debouncing. Then Roland dropped support for the only way to edit it. 3x fail.

Hi dewster,

Hey, you guys really get to talking about some pretty technical stuff, way over my head, anyway!

I'll know who to turn to if I have any questions about the V-Piano, after I have acquired it.

pv88