Today I present to you the third part in my "Top Gear" series, in which I discuss some of the music gear which allowed me to make the music you can listen to on this site. Today: the V-Synth! Without a doubt one of the most powerful devices I have ever owned. And one of only a few I have sold along the way, because after a while I used it far too little when considering the abundance of possilbilities it has to offer, so it was better for me to pass it on to someone who could make more use of it.Even so, I really enjoyed playing around with it. The V-Synth was, obviously, a synthesizer, and it was quite an expensive one as well. Back in the day (it was released in 2003), it was the most sophisticated synth Roland produced. It introduced new concepts, like a timetrip pad which allows you to go through a sound's waveform by manipulating the pad with your fingers at whichever speed you like, and in any direction you like. It featured a touch screen (again, very normal for today's standards but quite new back in the day) and its sound engines were simply stellar. The sounds it could produce were something quite spectacular.In the end, I used this machine mostly for fooling around and enjoying myself just for the sake of it. In the end it just took too much time setting the sounds up and exploring all the variables, which made it (for me) less perfect for using in music production. A couple of tracks on the PreFab disc prominently feature this synth's sounds, as I went through a couple of weeks without my MC-505 while I was recording that demo (the MC-505 needed to have some buttons repaired) so I fooled around with the V-Synth and a drum computer and made some tracks with that setup.It's too bad I had to let it go but I still know it was the right decision. It was even good enough to get discussed here, so there you have it!