1985/6 Roland Bass Synth: Rather on the rare side - particularily in black. Complete with bass, cable, floor synth module, extra memory cart, manual, and all the coolness you can shake a stick at.

I've read that although the synth portion was all roland that the bass itself was built by ibanez for them. The neck profile is nearly identical to my 83 musician so it wouldn't surprise me. Very very nice playing bass. And near museum quality perfect.

Just set up by my local pro and ready to go. Includes Factory hardshell case

Will offer a satisfaction guarantee / buy back. This bass is straight and true in every sense. If you don't dig it send it back.

Can provide you with more pictures than you can shake a stick at. Just pm me with your email address.

Asking $1050/obo
will trade up or down for the right bass

Bump for a very unique and interesting bass. If you could sell that anywhere, it would be on TB :)

I played one of these when they first came out. It had some cool sounds.

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I was sent a PM regarding the "tracking" of this bass. And thought I would share my response for all interested.

Absolutely you can out run the tracking. And slapping on this bad boy - is almost waste of time if your trying to have it sound like anything other than a bass.

It also depends on the patch you are using and how that sound is built. You have to remember that this bass is a bass and a 80's synth all in one. So just like the Juno 106 which has fast attack tones you can get pretty damn quick with some of the sounds. Others though are really slow.

The one really cool feature is that you can take this bass hook it up to another keyboard, and be your own home studio pretty easy. I built hundereds of layered parts with this bass - I'm a ****** keyboard player but a solid bass player, and in taking the appropriate amount of time you can get some killer stuff brewing.

It's a cool bass nonetheless.

I guess to more specifically answer your question. You don't actually drop notes as much as you can out play them. You have the ability to blend the bass tone with the synth tone, and if your synth patch is a slow attack tone your bass tone can out run it.

Based on my personal experience. This bass tracks as well as the new Roland Vbass system. No bass synth is perfect - but this one os very close.

On the bay... If you happen to be interested - pm me for a new talkbass member price to end the auction early.

Best,
DR