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Partials to hear what's going on- often if you don't use the PCM parts it sounds more "analogue". It's a much bigger sounding synth than a D-110, it's got THAT chorus, for a start, plus the extra LFO and envelope IIRC. It doesn't need to be multi-timbral I never liked programming on a real D50 though. The Roland Cloud version is super intuitive to get around, basically the same as a good computer based editor. I have one I would be happy to see go to to someone that would use it. Lives for gear Joined: Nov 2015 🎧 5 years Quote: Originally Posted by Tomás Mulcahy ➡️ D50 can definitely do analogue sounds. Get the same patch banks Jarre used on Revolutions. Or just pick a prest that is close and turn of the partials to hear what's going on- often if you don't use the PCM parts it sounds more "analogue". It's a much bigger sounding synth than a D-110, it's got THAT chorus, for a start, plus the extra LFO and envelope IIRC. It doesn't need to be multi-timbral I never liked programming on a real D50 though. The Roland Cloud version is super intuitive to get around, basically the same as a good computer based editor. The D-50 'Kokubo Strings' patch Jarre used on Revolutions I/II/III is mind-blowing. I always thought it was some analogue super polysynth, maybe a Synthex.When I learned it was just a simple D-50 I couldn't believe it until I got myself a D-550 and loaded the Jarre's bank into it.So definitely, YES. The D-50 can sound analogue (even more 'analogue' and fatter than most DCO-based synths). Registered User Joined: Oct 2011 Posts: 485 🎧 10 years Quote: Originally Posted by Tomás Mulcahy ➡️ D50 can definitely do analogue sounds. Get the same patch banks Jarre used on Revolutions. Or just pick a prest that is close and turn of the partials to hear what's going on- often if you don't use the PCM parts it sounds more "analogue". It's a much bigger sounding synth than a D-110, it's got THAT chorus, for a start, plus the extra LFO and envelope IIRC. It doesn't need to be multi-timbral I never liked programming on a real D50 though. The Roland Cloud version is super intuitive to get around, basically the same as a good computer based editor. I actually do program a bit on the D50, so Im pretty familiar with the layout. I program right from the screen. It does do analog sounds but from what im hearing the d110's sound more basic than the d50 which sounds expensive. I have the Korg EX800 which is similar in that regard. It sounds

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Difference. I tried all the classic D50 patches — 'Fantasia', 'DigitalNativeDance', 'Soundtrack', 'Glass Voices', 'Nightmare', 'IntruderFX' and so on — sounds that exemplify the original four-partial form of LA Synthesis, and which have never been accurately recreated on any other synth. When tested 'blind', I was unable to tell when a patch was played on the D50, and when on the XT.Checking the sounds in an oscilloscope, I made some further interesting findings. Firstly, the initial square and sawtooth waves I generated with the VC1 were very close to ideal square and sawtooth waves (unlike those generated by most analogue synths). I noticed something strange about the sawtooth wave, though — its polarity inverted with every successive note I played. To my surprise, when I compared this to my original D50, I found that the polarity of its sawtooth would also suddenly switch unexpectedly while playing a series of notes. After 18 years of happy D50 ownership, this was news to me!However, it seemed that despite this extremely faithful rendition of the D50's behaviour, something else wasn't right. When viewed through the same scope, the D50's square and sawtooth waves looked quite different to the VC1's close-to-ideal traces; the 'top' of the square wave sloped down considerably, and both waves had prominent initial transients which departed from ideal square and sawtooth traces. But then I realised that these oddities were hallmarks of the early and, by modern standards, low-quality D-A converters used in most digital synthesizers in the 1980s. Suddenly, I had it. If you read Paul Nagle's original review of the VC1 card, you may recall that Roland furnished it with both a standard mode, which transmits the D50 sounds through the modern output stage of the V-Synth unaltered, and also a 'D50' mode, designed to emulate the comparatively

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Not do so on the XT.Rolling Your OwnYou can load your own samples into the VC2 for use as a Modulator wave with the VC2's Keyboard algorithms. Unfortunately, unless you have the sample already stored in the XT's internal memory or on a PC card, doing so is extremely arcane. Firstly, you have to jump back to V-Synth XT operation, select 'Sample' in the Mode menu, and then load the file into an empty memory as a User Sample, trimming it and looping it appropriately. You then have to save it within a V-Synth project and, once it's there, switch back to VC2 mode, whereupon the sample is... not visible! Before you can 'see' it, you still have to enter the VC2's own Mode menu, select the Wave menu, and navigate to the .PRJ folder, open this, select the Wave sub-folder, import the audio, exit the Wave menu, exit the Mode menus, and return to the Patch windows. Blearrrgh!Unfortunately, there seems to be no way to load your own waves into the Carrier selection, which would offer even greater creative options and flexibility. I can't help speculating how much more useful it might have been had Roland implemented this bit of the VC2 differently. After all, you can use streamed audio as a Carrier, so why not samples? It beats me.The VC2 'Vocal Designer' CardIn the same way that the VC1 transforms the XT (and the V-Synth and the VariOS module) into a D50, the VC2 turns it into a vocal synthesizer and vocoder. There are five classes (or 'groups') of vocal processing on offer, with up to three algorithms in each group. Strangely, there's no way to access the algorithms themselves. To create a new patch using a desired algorithm, you have to select an existing patch that uses. – Roland D550 Factory Patches (sysex format) Manuals – Roland D50 User Manual – Roland D50 Service Manual – Roland D550 Manual – Roland D550 Service Notes – Roland D50 Creative Book (PDF): One of the best guides to take full advantage of your Roland D50/550. Many thanks to Rik Vanhoenaker for providing the following files! Roland D550 Factory Patches (sysex format) Manuals Roland D50 User Manual Roland D50 Service Manual Roland D550 Manual Roland D550 Service Notes Roland D50 Creative Book (PDF): One of the best guides to take full advantage of your Roland D50/550. Many thanks to Rik Vanhoenaker for providing the following files!

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Low-quality late-'80s output stage of the original D50. When I flipped the VC1 in the review V-Synth XT into this mode, the output square and sawtooth waves changed; the tell-tale transients appeared, and the 'top' of the square wave acquired a distinct slope down. The waveforms from the D50 and the VC1 were now identical. Clearly, the near-perfect waves I had initially obtained from the VC1 were a consequence of it being in 'V-Synth' rather than 'D50' mode. It would be hard for me to fault this emulation.ErratumLast month, I mistakenly reported that the XT has no 'Hold' function, and that I was forced to wedge things into the keyboard in order to keep the signal path open for processing external signals. In this, I was wrong, and I would like to thank fellow SOS contributor Paul Nagle for drawing this to my attention. What I missed was an option called Key Hold in the main drop-down menu at the top right of the V-Synth XT's Patch Play screen; when selected, this performs exactly the task that I had wanted. This may be a strange place for a Hold function, which should ideally be a front-panel button in my view, but it is there nonetheless, so my apologies for the mistake.VC1 Extras & ProblemsSelecting the VC1 immediately disables all the XT's V-Synth functions, so you can't (for example) play a D50 patch through the V-Synth XT's COSM processors or output effects. Nonetheless, Roland haven't left the original D50 specification entirely untouched. As well as including all of Roland's sound sets for the D50 in the VC1 (the original factory patches and the sounds from the four original library expansion cards), there are 28 new PCM waveforms, a new block of patches that use these new PCMs (which are therefore unique

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So little and takes up so little space being a little table top brick (somewhat taller than a TX7 or TG33 but really small) that its pointless to sell it. There are some respectable mid 90s type of JD/JX series sounds ranging from sample-based analog-alike sounds to chimey D50 and FMish tones and goofy world instrument and orchestral samples. If I recall this has some cheeseball gated drums too, but maybe not as cheesey as the yamaha SY series kits from the 35, 77 and 99... it sines most in key type sounds where its EP and piano sounds are drawn from the old roland digital piano modules (I think) like the MKS20 rack unit. I think this is basically a rehoused SC-88 with a few more sounds. Mine says edirol on it. The Edirol brand also made a smaller one with elss controls. Those are HELLA cheap now. Skip if you insist programmability.... buy if you want some dated sounds that can't all be found in rompler plugins and sample packs for your DAW for 200 bucks or less. Roles:Guitarist Bassist Keyboardist Composer Audio Engineer Genres:Electronic Orchestra Alternative rock Synthpop Power pop Film score Punk rock Soundtrack Experimental new wave pop 4 years ago about 4 years ago ehhh... if you want these old sounds, why not just buy one of the Roland cloud plugins? They have pretty much their entire ROMpler library from the D-50 onward tucked into various strangely-packaged ROMpler plugins. They've relented on the subscription thing a bit, and each plugin is now also available to purchase perpetually (they hide this fact, but it's an option)... the interfaces are head-scratching, the CPU use isn't great... but they sound as brilliant and/or crappy as their supposed to without wasting an interface input/mixer channel on hardware that doesn't provide much of that hardware joy. 4 years ago about 4 years ago @pkennethk I bought this before roland cloud LOL I be old 4 years ago about 4 years ago @jimmarchi1 I realize your purchase was in a different era... I asked about Roland plugins because I trialed the Roland Cloud recently, and the sound quality of both the ROMplers and the VAs was unimpeachable... so I figure it's worth mentioning (for others that might be reading) that Roland can sell you a virtual version that will save it's state along with the rest of your project, and will

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Can talk bi-directionally. In both cases, it took a number of attempts to work out what was happening, with garbage ensuing until I discovered the correct combination of key presses. This is very annoying, but could be fixed by nothing more arduous than correcting the manual. In the meantime, I predict more than a few phone calls to Roland's customer service hotline!Next, the patch numbers on the D50 and those selected on the VC1 did not always tally with one another when I used the D50 to select VC1 patches over MIDI. It was almost as if some sort of remapping was going on: patch 11 on the D50 selected patch 62 on the VC1, patch 12 selected patch 85... and so on. Happily, this problem went away when I loaded one of the VC1's memory blocks into the D50. Unhappily, it reappeared when I reloaded the problematic bank into the D50. I have no idea what was happening here.Moving on, the VC1 cannot access the XT's PC Card slot. This is frustrating because — while the onboard memories will be adequate for all but the most fanatical LA Synthesis programmer — this limitation precludes simple portability of musical projects that include D50-type sounds. Furthermore, the software editor that accompanies the VC1 card when it's used with Roland's VariOS module is not included, and the V-Synth Librarian (see last month's review) does not support the VC1. This is a disappointment, but not a huge one — and not just because you can use a PG1000 to edit the VC1, but also because the on-screen programming is so much clearer than on the original D50.My final criticism of the VC1 concerns the on-screen representation of the D50's joystick. This works on the V-Synth and under VariOS, but for some reason does

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Kept cutting in and out because of it too.. After that TAL update last week, TAL dropped from a full core down to about 15-20% running the same patch I was using in Zenology. If you think your computer could handle the ACB stuff, I'd recommend trying the the Roland Cloud Ultimate sub. It's just $20 a month and you get a real lot of great stuff. There's no kind of commitment either so you could cancel anytime. I was going to say its probably worth it for the $20 for just one month to try out all the synths even if you quit after. Then I remembered! You get a free month in the beginning, and can cancel before they charge you the first time.I have the Arturia V Collection but even with it now having a Juno and good Jupiter 8 the Roland Cloud ultimate is still worth it to me. The D50, Pro Mars and especially System 8 is fantastic. The ACB Jupiter 8 is great too and I feel it's different enough from the Arturia to also be good without being entirely redundant. The quick velocity to filter and amp knobs and ability to turn off FX on the front panel make it faster to program then going into the advanced panel on the Arturia. It also sounds different enough.I'm not a fan of the Zenology VA at all. I doesnt have any analog tonal character to me. I can dig synths that don't. I have Synthmaster and that doesnt either. The difference though if I'm going for a modern non-analog sounding synth, I want one with a true amount of rediculous programming options like Synthmaster, Pigments, or Vital. These options need to be easy to get to and program. Zenology is a complete pig to. – Roland D550 Factory Patches (sysex format) Manuals – Roland D50 User Manual – Roland D50 Service Manual – Roland D550 Manual – Roland D550 Service Notes – Roland D50 Creative Book (PDF): One of the best guides to take full advantage of your Roland D50/550. Many thanks to Rik Vanhoenaker for providing the following files!

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The Value knob (which wasn't present on the D50), but not the numeric keypad, which is a great shame. But there's another unexpected bonus with every VC1...I was contemplating Roland's claims that the VC1 and D50 are identical when a thought occurred to me. I went and unwrapped my rarely used PG1000 hardware D50 programmer, connected its MIDI output and input to the sockets on the back of the XT and... Blimey! It worked. As far as I could tell, the VC1 responds to the D50's dedicated programmer as the D50 itself does, partial by partial, tone by tone, and patch by patch. You don't even have to be viewing the appropriate page for the PG1000 to be able to do its stuff; just move a slider, and listen to the sound change. Inevitably, there are a couple of inconsistencies; for example, the PCM select slider on the PG1000 travels from 01 to 100, so the new samples in locations 101 to 128 are unobtainable, but I'm nonetheless amazed by this degree of compatibility.Despite all the good stuff, I did uncover a few problems during my time with the VC1. Firstly, don't follow the instructions in the manual regarding Bulk Dumping from the VC1 to a D50: they don't work. Instead, select a patch in the VC1 block you wish to dump, and then request the dump from the D50. Once it's complete, the D50 will appear to lock up, so press Exit. The screen will say 'Cancelled' but you'll find that all 64 patches have arrived at their destinations nevertheless. Secondly, dumping patches from the D50 to the VC1 (ie. in the other direction) also fails when you follow the instructions in the manual. I found that you have to add a second MIDI cable so that the two

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Part 2: We conclude our review of Roland's fabulous new rackmount synth, and look at the built-in VC1 and VC2 cards, which convert the V-Synth XT into a fully functioning D50 and a powerful vocal-processing synth respectively.Last month, I took delivery of the V-Synth XT, and discovered that its amazing sound engine is only one third of its story. This is because, like the original keyboard V-Synth, the XT has the ability to host cards that change it into something completely different — or, in this case, two different things. On the V-Synth XT, however, two such cards are pre-installed internally, without occupying the PC Card slot on the front panel, as they do on the original V-Synth. Not merely extensions of the existing synth engine, these cards replace the 'brain' of the instrument, providing utterly different programming idioms, sounds and characters.The first of these cards, launched earlier this year and reviewed in Sound On Sound May 2005, running under a keyboard V-Synth, is the VC1 'D50' card. The second is the VC2 'Vocal Designer' card. So let's press the V-Card button, stab the 'VC1 D50' panel that appears on the XT's touch-sensitive colour screen, and wait for the D50 implementation to load up.The VC1 'D50' CardIn the diagram below, I've illustrated the test setup that I used for this review. As you can see, my original D50 synth provided both MIDI control over the XT and the opportunity to test the VC1's sonic authenticity.I loaded the original factory sound set on both synths, directed their outputs to two stereo inputs on my mixer, matched the gains and defeated the EQ, and then punched the channel mutes as required. The results were unambiguous. To my ears, the two instruments sounded identical, or so close to identical as makes absolutely no. – Roland D550 Factory Patches (sysex format) Manuals – Roland D50 User Manual – Roland D50 Service Manual – Roland D550 Manual – Roland D550 Service Notes – Roland D50 Creative Book (PDF): One of the best guides to take full advantage of your Roland D50/550. Many thanks to Rik Vanhoenaker for providing the following files!

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Registered User Joined: Oct 2011 Posts: 485 🎧 10 years D50 Vs. D110 I own a D50 and was wondering is it pointless to buy a D110 even though they are super cheap? Ive heard some of the analog type sounds it can do on youtube and can see it working in my music, but I can't seem to find these types of sounds in the D50. Judging from what ive heard they sound quite different. Is it possible to transfer D110 patches to the D50? Lives for gear Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 5,933 🎧 15 years Just watching this vid, some decent Korg effects and good programming makes all the difference. They are so cheap, might as well just buy one. If it doesn't do it for you move it on. My D-110 is going nowhere! Gear Addict Joined: Aug 2012 Posts: 355 🎧 10 years Quote: Originally Posted by jtaylor27 ➡️ I own a D50 and was wondering is it pointless to buy a D110 even though they are super cheap? Ive heard some of the analog type sounds it can do on youtube and can see it working in my music, but I can't seem to find these types of sounds in the D50. Judging from what ive heard they sound quite different. Is it possible to transfer D110 patches to the D50? I had the D-50 and the D-20 (keyboard version of D-110) at the same time in the late 80's. D-50 is far superior when it comes to sound. The D-20(D-110) was multi-timbral though which was cool then but doesn't mean so much now. The D-5/D-10/D-20/D-110 have a bit more lo-fi sound which I can appreciate more today then back then.Get all of them! :-). D-110 surprisingly does have a nice saw and square wave that can sound quite warm for a digital synth, you do get some phasing and I could never work out why but on certain bass notes the sound would slightly phase cancel, maybe it was the structures ? The sound can be quite wide due to this and you have a few different structures that aren't on the D50, I remember liking the split stereo structure. If you have some patience you can use it in multitimble mode and stack up the sounds, with some detuning and lfo differences you can get some very lush and wide saw pads, but due to the programming being such a pig (very convoluted system) it often seems much easier to grab another synth.Also the D10 programmer is OK, but still some menu diving All of the LA synths have a nice fuzzy warmness to them Quote: Originally Posted by jtaylor27 ➡️ I own